St-Petersburg State Technical University The Department of Economic Management The Chair of World Economics Work on subject International Raw Materials Market The Student A.E Epechourin Group 10782 The Tutor O.G. Lebedinskaj St-Petersburg 1997 Introduction I. Trade intermediates and natural resources I Middle products intermediates II Natural resources 3 3 5 II. Raw Materials 6 Summary 10 Addendum 12 Bibliography 13 Introduction 1. Raw Materials - A natural of semifinished god that is used in manufacturing or processing to make some other good. Bauxite is the raw materials ore from which aluminum is made aluminum is turn can be the raw material from which household utensils are manufactured.1 2. There is another definitions from the subject area of raw materials distinct from the above mentioned Raw materials are products immediately extracted from nature which have undergone a first processing through which they have become marketable and, consequently, a tradable commodity.
Raw materials include all energy raw materials crude oil, natural gas, coal, uranium, metals, semi-metals and industrial minerals kaolin, graphite, sulfur, salts, phosphates, rocks, water as well as all plant and animal products, whether they come from tropical regions coffee, jute, tropical timber or from temperate latitudes wheat, meat, wool, etc 2 Raw material economy It comprises all activities which are part of the planned handling of raw materials, i.e. explanation, evaluation, extraction, conversion into a tradable product, trade and forecasting.
Planned here means economically useful, ecologically and socially responsible activities.2 Resources are all natural material systems which as such are no commodities, but the intactness of which is a basic prerequisite for the continued existence of the earths chemical and physical equilibrium and, consequently, for the survival of mankind.
Resources include the ozone balance, the CO2 balance, the equilibrium of sea water, the tropical forest, the krill and fish population, etc.2 World resource balances are the planned i.e. ecologically useful and socially responsible handling of resources.
This comprises the explanation, evaluation, risk assessment and forecasting regarding world resources.2 Current research emphasis 2 international raw material balances supply problems of the industrial countries location disadvantages of the developing countries dumping problems in international raw material trade recycling as a source for raw materials raw material deposits and connected environmental problems in east Siberia addendum 1 structural questions and environmental problems of the Polish energy and metal economyI.
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