Granted, these producers' savings probably translate into lower prices at the grocery store, but how many consumers make that mental connection at the checkout counter?

诚然，这些生产商节省的制造成本可能会使得杂货店里的商品价格更低，但有多少消费者会在收银台前联想到这些呢？

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Producers there are bidding up prices.

当地的生产者哄抬价格。

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That's pushing down prices and forcing some small producers to shut down.

这导致了钢铁价格的下跌，一些小厂家被迫倒闭。

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Gas producers invested heavily in reaching new supplies when prices were high.

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Prices for producers have dropped. And low-priced copies are on the market.

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China's Commerce Ministry says it is looking into accusations from local producers that American auto and chicken meat products are being dumped in China at below-cost prices.

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To lock in low long-term power costs, Higgins scavenged carrion from the meltdown: power plants built by electricity producers when prices were high.

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Unfortunately for the Kremlin, Soviet farmers have, in part, balked at supplying their produce to Moscow center since local authorities and more free-market oriented entrepreneurs are willing to pay producers higher prices than those set by central authorities -- which have remained largely unchanged for over 15 years.

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In theory, global trade should cause prices in different countries to converge: the prices of low-cost producers should gradually increase as wages rise (ie, China's falling prices were a temporary anomaly), while the prices of high-cost producers should fall.

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