Nowadays prices of commodities are very high.

Commodity prices are like this.

And that's going to change as people's habits change, or as new goods and services emerge on the market. Or frankly even as prices change, that will change.

Diversification of production took a back seat in policy decisions as commodity prices continued to fuel rapid growth.

Demand for consumer products typically follows an S curve.

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With official figures widely discredited, private analysts estimate that consumer prices are rising at an annual rate of 25 or more.

The differences in price for many other consumer goods is even larger.

Inflation has declined to its lowest level in 20 years, with consumer prices rising by 9.7 per cent in 1993.

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When they are high, they are apt to crowd out investments in manufactures and other, non traditional tradables.

As expected, the price of imported goods rose.

As expected, the price of imported goods rose.

The prices of some primary commodities performed even worse.

Prices of goods go up, inflation is affected.

Exports to the United States are mainly electronics and consumer goods.

At the same time, we have had to cope with considerable increases in the cost of transportation and of electricity, with their multiplier effect on productive sectors and the price of basic consumer goods.

Items are reasonably priced, and a number of items are sold in bulk.

Many commodity prices, after a while, could start eroding again.

Thus, for example, the price of cotton and timber fell ever lower, while the price of textiles and furniture soared.

Again, relative prices could change either through an increase in the HK dollar price of internationally traded goods or through decreases in the HK dollar prices of local goods. Since Hong Kong's currency board prevents inflation in HK dollar prices, the HK dollar prices of local goods must fall.

Again, relative prices could change either through an increase in the HK dollar price of internationally traded goods or through decreases in the HK dollar prices of local goods.

Though lower oil prices depress consumer prices, they should boost production and overall GDP.

Currently, the Maghreb countries suffer from soaring unemployment, poverty, and high prices for basic commodities.

Most materials required for the physical development of the islands, as well as durable and other bulk consumer goods, are imported and delivered by sea.

Easy access to cheap funding and high commodity prices alleviated the need to press ahead with difficult reforms of infrastructure, utilities, education, and health care, to name a few areas.

While commodity prices are always more variable than those for manufactured goods and services, commodity markets over the last five years have seen extraordinary, almost unprecedented, volatility.

Price controls are governmental restrictions on the prices that can be charged for goods and services in a market.

Under these circumstances, large excess capacity develops and commodity prices fall.

Commodity prices are plumbing new depths.

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Problems vary with the type of industry (for example manufacturing, consumer goods products, process industries, etc.), the economic and social environment, the country as each of the former soviet republic has evolved differently since independence.

Commodity prices dropped like a stone, and interest rates in emerging markets soared.

Of course, upward pressure on commodity prices also stems from supply side challenges.

Prices of commodities have declined further, in some cases even in nominal terms.

With foreign manufacturers piling in to satisfy a new hunger for consumer durables, India turned its gaze outward.

This has enhanced inter island trade and reduced prices for consumers, as regional import duties have been removed.

At the same time, while the prices of these raw materials were falling year after year at a dizzying pace, other nations were forced to buy at a high price and with reduced resources the consumer goods produced in the industrialized countries.

When they are high, they are apt to crowd out investments in manufactures and other, non traditional tradables.

Meanwhile, Iran s currency is weakening, pricing imported goods out of many Iranians reach.

As a result, higher commodity prices are eating into fiscal cushions rather than curtailing demand.

the increasing gap between world and domestic price in commodity markets over the past 25 years , World Bank Economic Review, vol. 12, No. 3 (1998), pp. 503 526) notes that since the 1970s, commodity prices have fallen in international markets at the same time that consumer prices have risen.

While that is true, high export prices alone were no guarantee for success.