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Most commodities come out of mines and wells that last decades, and flow to buyers who need steady supplies and would prefer steady prices.

Ultimately, end users have a moral imperative to know where commodities come from and who's harmed in their acquisition, said Princeton University bioethics professor Peter Singer, author of The Ethics of What We Eat.

Neither of the twin bioethical totems of gifts and commodities come near to appropriately capturing the logics of the UCB immunitary bioeconomy.

Most commodities come down in price when the market is flooded.

Some commodities come through the port on a regular basis, others are special cargo for a limited time.

"All of the commodities coming through the terminal will be in covered rail cars, dumped into enclosed underground units with dust control," Bridges said.

A double-columned or multicolumned tariff provides for different rates according to the country of origin, with lower rates being granted to commodities coming from countries with which tariff agreements have been negotiated.

Commodities came under pressure again, not helped by continuing talk about a slowdown in China and news of poor European car sales, with copper falling to its lowest level since October 2011.

The United States cannot enforce its own labor laws overseas, but if commodities coming into the United States are found to be produced by prison, forced, or indentured labor, it can impose various penalties — financial and criminal — on the companies importing the commodities.

Large industrial companies that produce basic commodities came under pressure after the CRB Index, a broad measure of commodity prices, fell by almost 1.5% in intraday trading.

A bullish case for commodities comes from Boston money man Jeremy Grantham, who has a knack for calling big turns in the market.