Sentence examples for access to commodity from inspiring English sources

Instead, he shows, it was a process begun under the Soviet president Mikhail S. Gorbachev, and subsequently continued, to grant lobbyists preferential access to commodity export licenses at a time when there was a gap between world prices and very low regulated domestic prices — allowing them to pocket a windfall.

Second, it imposes new limits on gas and oil trading that will cripple independent producers' access to commodity markets".

"People want a different way to play the cycle and the business as a whole of mining, trading and selling commodities so this will definitely be a welcome addition in terms of a broader access to commodity markets," said Rob Edwards, managing director of metals and mining research at Renaissance Capital.

"For a very long time, the west was extremely privileged, by privileged access to commodities during colonial times, for example".

Chinese companies have been taking advantage of depressed resource prices to buy stakes in producers and lock in access to commodities, particularly oil.

But these days China's ambitions are bigger than winning business, or seeking access to commodities, on the world's poorest continent.

Meanwhile, China is rapidly increasing its lending in Latin America as it pursues not only long-term access to commodities like soybeans and iron ore, but also an alternative to investing in United States Treasury notes.

"I see BRICS as more about China trying to have more ready access to commodities in Brazil and South Africa," said Mr. Huang, the M.I.T. economist, adding that the other countries were then trying to use the group "to exercise influence on China".

That kind of clout would lead to direct political and economic benefits: China would win access to commodities, profit-making opportunities for its companies and an increase in its international political leverage vis-à-vis the United States and Europe.

Mrs. Merkel last week told leaders of Germany's Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations, a lobby group, that it was essential to deal with China's increased control of access to commodities essential for economic growth.

Look for Chinese companies to buy not just access to commodities but also Western brands, like Volvo and Hummer.