This is a business, whose main commodity is a living, breathing animal.
In a city where the main commodity is talk, the monuments offer a tonic of stillness.
The main commodity was grain.
I don't know if we can physically do it…." (Male GP, Rural) "The main commodity is time, and all of us are stretched at the moment so by taking on this additional work, we don't know where to fit it in".
Malawi currently imports an estimated US$1.625 billion in goods per year, with the main commodities being food, petroleum products, consumer goods and transportation equipment.
One of the main commodities is wheat, mainly for export.
Which means that this is a brand new commodities market where the main commodity to be traded is guaranteed to rise in price over time.
The price of copper, Chile's main export commodity, is seen extending its recent decline and the bank expects the country's trade surplus to shrink to $600m £368mm) in 2014 from $2.5bn in 2013.
As for the currencies in which the main commodities will be denominated, that will be a toss-up between a single currency, the dollar or the renminbi, and a basket of currencies.
The main commodities shipped are grain from Thunder Bay on Lake Superior to St. Lawrence ports, and iron ore to steel mills in both Canada and the United States.
