Part of it funds the next round of letters of credit the manufacturer will use to ensure a steady supply of raw materials over the life of the supply contract.
In it, he pointed out that some 126 hectares of traditional land had been granted to Padang to supply raw materials for cement.
Finally, the supply of raw materials is likely to surge in the decade ahead in response to the global resource investment boom, putting further pressure on prices.
The good supply of raw materials - leather for making shoes - and its good geographic location, allowing easy access to Europe and the rest of Africa, were also factors.
It is rare for investors to take physical delivery of commodities, so no raw materials are removed from the supply chain (another reason why investors are unlikely to affect spot prices).
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Antidumping duties on magnesium, polyvinyl chloride, and hot-rolled steel, for example, enable petitioning U.S. companies that often dominate domestic supply of raw materials to foreclose alternative sources and then thrust higher prices on their U.S. customers.
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Universal Display Corporation, who supply the phosphorescent raw materials, would not confirm.
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Petrol and raw materials for industry are in extremely short supply.
That would bolster the global market for these precious commodities, reducing costs from raw materials all the way across the manufacturing supply chain, and ultimately to consumers.
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China runs a deficit with most of its trading partners, which supply oil, other raw materials and industrial components, and makes up for it by running large surpluses with its U.S. and European export markets.
"We may experience a significant disruption in the supply of fabrics or raw materials from current sources or, in the event of a disruption, we may be unable to locate alternative materials suppliers of comparable quality at an acceptable price, or at all, " the company said in the filing.
But a quarter of the resources come from the supply chain, from sourcing raw materials.
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If Mr Mesa survives to 2007, a vital part of his job will be to help supply Bolivia with the missing raw materials of democracy.
And supply chains are getting longer as companies source more raw materials and parts from cheaper overseas markets.
Certain raw materials like grains ( NYSE:JJG ) have a somewhat fixed level of supply and no attempt to increase that supply, such as fertilizer improvements through companies like Monsanto ( NYSE:MON) have been developed to meet that supply.
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The first worry is about direct competition for things that are in more or less fixed supply: geopolitical supremacy, the world's oil and raw materials, the status and perks that come with being the issuer of a trusted international currency.
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