Usually, making a product out of nature-friendly materials costs more, which drives up the final product price for consumers.

一般来说，用自然友好材料生产的产品成本较高，到消费者手中时，销售价格也会较高。

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Dealers reacted to growing concern that higher raw materials costs would begin to eat into demand and affect the pace of economic recovery.

人们日益担心，原材料价格上涨可能开始削弱需求，并影响经济复苏步伐，交易商们对这种焦虑心理作出了反应。

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The Ace is not just popular, but profitable too: despite rising raw-materials costs and limited scale, it recouped its development costs within a year.

Ace 不仅很受欢迎，而且利润可观：尽管原料成本上涨，生产规模小，但仅一年就收回了开发成本。

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More worrisome, Hyundai's profit margins are getting squeezed by a rising won and rising materials costs.

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Still, Doyle managed to hold the projected increase in raw-materials costs of the new pizzas to less than 10 percent.

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With huge oversupply in some industries, and big rises in raw-materials costs, many manufacturers are having to endure wafer-thin margins.

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