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Senator Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, asked whether North Korea's potential capacity to sell raw materials for nuclear bombs to terrorists made it "far more dangerous" than Iraq.
Many sell raw materials or base products – Ukrainian steel, for example – where export competitiveness depends less on product quality than on global commodity prices.
So the Ponzi bicycle shock could be a bigger deal for countries that sell raw materials, whether they sell to China or not, than it is to China exporters.
An existing trade group, Solar Energy Industries Association, is deeply split over trade actions against China, because it includes American subsidiaries of Chinese solar manufacturers and American companies that sell raw materials and factory equipment to Chinese makers of solar panels.
The problem now is as follows: The products these countries sell — raw materials (oil, agricultural commodities) and commodity types of consumer goods (garments, textiles, toys, footwear, electronic components, semiconductors) — are all deflating in price.
Chinese growth is weakening – only to 6.9percentnt – but the developing world is dependent on China to sell raw materials into, and any slowdown there would flatten the already teetering likes of Brazil, South Africa and Indonesia.
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Some Brazilians complain that Brazil sells raw materials to China while buying manufactures from it.
As middlemen, they traditionally bought and sold raw materials, financed building projects and sold finished goods around the world, earning fat commissions.
The only way they could do so was by setting up "trading companies," which sold raw materials to China in exchange for rice.
In short, it has a resource-based economy, selling raw materials and farm produce to the rest of the world and financing its comfortable welfare state from the proceeds.There is some truth in this generalisation.
Brazil's success in selling raw materials and other basic products pushes up the real, which makes other Brazilian exports less competitive and exposes industry to cheap imports, especially from China.
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