Sentence examples for principal commodity from inspiring English sources

Once the principal commodity of this trade was gold; today it is drugs.

Among the principal commodity groups carried through the canal are motor vehicles, petroleum products, grains, and coal and coke.

Assume further, however, that the target company is in the mining and minerals business and the price of its principal commodity has just shot through the roof.

The effects are invariably felt at UNICEF, where vaccines are our principal commodity support to developing countries.

The principal commodities are citrus fruits, olive oil, grapes, tomatoes, melons, figs, and dates.

Grains, vegetables, fruit, and cattle are the principal commodities traded, and the city manufactures textiles, cigars and cigarettes, mosaics, and brooms.

It was hard to see why the government would allow the ruination of so much open land, which is one of Ireland's principal commodities, namely the "unspoiled" landscape.

The Central Bank said the principal commodities that accounted for higher Japa nese imports were transport equipment, machinery other than electrical, cereals and cereal preparations and tex tile fibers not manufactured into yarns.

Soybean and sugar futures prices rose sharply yesterday, partly reflecting fears that Brazil's new President will seek higher taxes and restrictions on exports of some of the country's principal commodities.

Grain and wool were the principal commodities that elevated Ghent from a barren marshland to a wealthy trade center during the Middle Ages, and the grandiose gabled, scrolled and chiseled architectural results are still on display when you take a tour with De Bootjes Van Gent.

In Fig. 1, the trend in the prices of the principal commodities can be seen for the period 1990 2010.