Sentence examples for importer of the commodity from inspiring English sources
India lost an estimated $10bn in iron ore exports in the last financial year and is expected to become a net importer of the commodity.
Although figures from the Food and Agriculture Organization show palm oil production increased from 130,000 tonnes to 225,000 tonnes between 2000 and 2013, the country is still a net importer of the commodity.
A net exporter (importer) of a commodity enjoys (suffers from) a manna-from-heaven gain (loss) when its price increases.
Brazil alone accounts for 3 percent of world agricultural exports and is a major trading partner of many countries, in particular in Latin America; while the Russian Federation is a significant importer of agricultural commodities, namely from the European Union (EU) and Brazil.
The scion of a merchant family, Mr Dangote began his career in the 1970s as an importer of bulk commodities, such as rice and sugar, but soon moved into manufacturing.
He had made his first visit to China in 2002 while running the global energy portfolio for mining giant Rio Tinto, dealing with the power elite in Beijing and the ports in Guangdong, trying to understand how that country, while becoming a leading importer of raw commodities, was still self-sufficient in coal.
We tracked down the importer of the logs.
The inspirer: the Egyptian El Khardaoui, importer of the Shiite suicide attempt strategy into Sunni terrain.
"I was the importer of the Chinese Kalashnikovs," he readily admits.
