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  2. Economy of East Asia - Wikipedia

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    Ancient East Asia was economically dominated by two states known today as China and Japan. These two ancient states traded abundant raw materials and high-quality manufactured goods, exchanged cultural ideas and practices, and had military conflicts with each other throughout the centuries. [24]

  3. List of commodities exchanges - Wikipedia

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    Most commodity markets around the world trade in agricultural products and other raw materials (like wheat, barley, sugar, maize, cotton, cocoa, coffee, milk products, pork bellies, oil, and metals). Trading includes various types of derivatives contracts based on these commodities, such as forwards , futures and options , as well as spot ...

  4. Manufacturing in Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese manufacturing industry is heavily dependent on imported raw materials and fuels. [2] Japanese manufacturing and industry is very diversified, with a variety of advanced industries that are highly successful. Industry accounts for 19.4% (2022) of the nation's GDP. [3] The country's manufacturing output is the third highest in the ...

  5. Iron and steel industry in India - Wikipedia

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    Some of the early iron objects found in India are dated to 1400 BCE by employing radiocarbon dating. [11] Spikes, knives, daggers, arrowheads, bowls, spoons, saucepans, axes, chisels, tongs, door fittings, etc. ranging from 600 BCE—200 BCE have been discovered at several archaeological sites. [11]

  6. Economic relations of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The shift was caused by the fall in the prices of oil and other raw materials that Japan imported from the region and by the rapid growth in Japanese exports as the region's economic growth continued at a high rate. [1] Indonesia and Malaysia both continued to show a trade surplus because of their heavy raw material exports to Japan. However ...

  7. East Asian model - Wikipedia

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    "Eight countries in East Asia–Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia–have become known as the East Asian miracle." [10] Beside successes of the East Asian economy mentioned above in the success of the model, there are two other examples why they are called 'Asian miracles'.

  8. 2000s commodities boom - Wikipedia

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    The prices of raw materials were depressed and declining from, roughly, 1982 until 1998. From the mid-1980s to September 2003, the inflation-adjusted price [citation needed] of a barrel of crude oil on NYMEX was generally under $25/barrel. Since 1968 the price of gold has ranged widely, from a high of $850/oz ($27,300/kg) on 21 January 1980, to ...

  9. Mining in Asia - Wikipedia

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    Coal is the primary energy needs demand of three of the four countries in Northeast Asia. Coal accounts for 77% of China, 85% of South Korea and 80% of Mongolia. [9] In Northeast Asia, coal is used for both industrial and residential. Actually, almost half of the coal is used in heating system.