But if commodity demand is any indicator, the China dragon is still hungry for raw materials.
They paid too much for raw materials, and charged too little for finished goods.
As China's demand for raw materials continues its economic and industrial operation will expand throughout the continent.
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And Chinese demand for raw materials, that's driving commodity market at the moment.
The U.S. also has abundant raw materials, and considering demand for raw materials is declining, the price is also falling.
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Rising costs for raw materials like steel and plastic are one reason Chrysler and other automakers had a tough year in 2006.
Nations desperate for raw materials have been glad to buy so cheaply.
Caterpillar, for example, bought mining equipment firm Bucyrus International this week largely to take advantage of growing emerging market demand for raw materials.
Already pummeled by higher costs for raw materials and a dramatic shift away from highly profitable trucks, carmakers now are facing serious liquidity challenges.
Chinese and Indian demand for raw materials has driven world prices for commodities (of which South American countries are big producers) to unprecedented levels.
China's voracious demand for raw materials and U.S. appetite for gas and oil are driving the economy today, along with a domestic real estate boom.
At the same time, big infrastructure projects, another key driver of China's growth, have driven up demand for raw materials from resource-rich countries such as Indonesia.
Blaming rising global demand for raw materials in some fast-growing emerging market economies countries, Bernanke denied that QE2 had caused the recent surge in commodity prices.
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Mr. Ohlsson said declining costs for raw materials such as cotton and wood likely would allow the company to cut prices another 1% this fiscal year.
Not only has China imported increasing quantities of coal and metals from Australia, but its appetite for raw materials has sharply pushed up global commodity prices.
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Often, fast growing emerging market countries like China, India, and Brazil experience spurts of growth whereby their needs for raw materials are disproportionate to their relative GDP.
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For years, analysts have warned of the impending oversupply in the dry bulk shipping markets as newbuilds were coming online faster than demand for raw materials was growing.
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Prices for raw materials and labor rose faster than expected.
The risks to his recommendation and target price include weaker-than-expected new construction markets in the U.S. and China, higher-than-expected costs for raw materials and energy, and higher spending on new-product rollouts.
Its purchases of foreign assets keep the cost of capital down and its appetite for raw materials keeps their price up, to the benefit of commodity producers wherever they sell their wares.
Demand for raw materials and the related trade surplus, a surge in the Australian dollar and increase in interest rates are twisting the economy, strengthening western mining regions while undercutting tourism and nonmining industries.
In their relentless search for raw materials to fuel the rapidly growing Chinese economy, Chinese companies are snapping up natural resource companies in Australia, Canada, Africa and wherever else in the world they can be found.
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The recklessness of that action sent shock waves through the boardrooms of every Japanese company that has come to rely upon China not just for raw materials, but for intermediate parts and, of course, for finished goods.
"Together, Alpha and Cleveland-Cliffs will have the size, the management depth and the mining expertise to compete on the global stage as demand for raw materials continues to increase around the world, " Alpha Chairman Michael Quillen said in a statement to the press.
Mining giants like Rio Tinto, Freeport-McMoran and Glecore figured the roaring Chinese demand for raw materials would bail them out of any mega- takeover that meant borrowing a bundle of debt to diversify into aluminum or gold or copper was the path to growth, higher profits and ecstatic shareholders.
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If real estate collapses and the resulting banking crisis affects the rest of the economy, there will be a substantial drop in the demand for raw materials, with a corresponding fall in exports from countries that produce and export raw materials, and in OECD exports to emerging middle classes.
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