Chinese-Dragon
RETIRED TTA
^ I agree CD, although I feel that India is not up to a point where it can fully utilize its raw materials, so if they stay underground they add zero value to the economy. I'm hopeful as the economy grows the domestic demand for these products will increase and India should be able to utilize these materials in house. A similar case would be wrt rare earths being primarily supplied by china, as china's domestic consumption rises, its RE exports will decline further as well.
Very true, in fact I think that is happening now. The government is cutting quotas for rare earth exports.
It sucks to export rare earths to Japan, and then have the Japanese sell it BACK to us in the form of a finished product like an LCD screen.
Best to make the finished products ourselves, we need to keep the value chain inside the country.


This is interesting!