Secondly, there had been a shift from bulk commodities to high value commodities.

Commodity prices are like this.

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Why Are Commodity Prices Falling?

Further, studies suggest that owing to concentration in the structure of international commodity markets, commodity producers are less likely to benefit from increases in international commodity prices at the wholesale and retail levels.

The Silver Lining in High Commodity Prices

(ii) Expenditures in kind (including value of donated commodities)

Commodity markets, too, have become a source of disinflationary pressure. North America s shale energy revolution has weakened oil and gas prices, while China s slowdown has undermined demand for a broad range of commodities, including iron ore, copper, and other industrial metals, all of which are in greater supply after years of high prices stimulated investments in new capacity.

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The prices of primary commodities had declined against the prices of manufactures, especially during the 1980s.

There is also the issue of the so called reserve price (the highest price a buyer is willing to pay for a good or service). The reserve price places a cap on how high commodity prices will go, as it is the price at which demand destruction occurs (consumers are no longer willing or able to purchase the good or service).

33. Among the perennial problems facing producers of commodities is the excessive instability of the prices of many commodities.

4. Expresses the urgent need for supportive international policies to improve the functioning of commodity markets through efficient and transparent price formation mechanisms, including commodity exchanges, and through the use of commodity price risk management instruments

1. Notes the need of the developing countries, in particular the commodity dependent developing countries, for stable and more predictable commodity prices in the face of instability and decline in real terms of the prices of many commodities

CAMBRIDGE The prices of hydrocarbons, minerals, and agricultural commodities have been on a veritable roller coaster. 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.

Unstable prices for commodities were a serious issue.

2. Expresses the urgent need for supportive international policies and measures to improve the functioning of commodity markets through efficient and transparent price formation mechanisms, including commodity exchanges, and through the use of commodity price risk management instruments

1. Takes note of the report of Secretary General on world commodity trends and prospects,A 59 304. including the fact that while prices have improved for some commodities, the real prices of others remain on a declining trend

3. Notes the need expressed by developing countries, in particular the commodity dependent developing countries, for stable and more predictable commodity prices, in the face of instability and decline in real terms of the prices of many commodities

I've looked to see what is the relationship between higher commodity prices of exports, and the growth of commodity exporting countries.

But these declines in share of commodities in world trade do not reflect an absolute diminution in the value of commodity exports.

There has been a steady effort to arrive at market based prices for energy commodities, and prices of some of them (notably oil products) have for some years been derived from the world market price.

The prices of oil and many primary commodities have slipped.

Decrying the treatment of human beings as commodities bartered, bought or sold by traffickers, in particular exploiters,

Recognizing that commodity prices are an important element for heavily indebted poor countries that are commodity dependent in maintaining long term debt sustainability,

The products are offered at discounted prices enabling consumers to save approximately 5.5 per cent of the full price.

The contractor had offered a price of only 145,522 because, according to him, some items were shopworn, damaged and marked down.

Many delegations drew attention to the continuing volatility of primary commodity prices and to the fact that in real terms commodity prices are still lower today than they were some 20 years ago.

7. The price boom began with non oil commodities in 1994.

Table 1 Monthly indices of market prices of selected primary commodities

Support the efforts of commodity dependent African countries to restructure, diversify and strengthen the competitiveness of their commodity sectors and decide to work towards market based arrangements with the participation of the private sector for commodity price risk management

Commit to support the efforts of commodity dependent African countries to restructure, diversify and strengthen the competitiveness of their commodity sectors and decide to work towards market based arrangements with the participation of the private sector for commodity price risk management

Commit ourselves to supporting the efforts of commodity dependent African countries to restructure, diversify and strengthen the competitiveness of their commodity sectors and decide to work towards market based arrangements with the participation of the private sector for commodity price risk management

Source UNCTAD, Monthly Commodity Price Bulletin, March 1998.

2. Expresses the urgent need for supportive international policies and measures to improve the functioning of commodity markets through efficient and transparent price formation mechanisms, including commodity exchanges, and through the use of viable and effective commodity price risk management instruments

(f) To support the efforts of commodity dependent African countries to restructure, diversify and strengthen the competitiveness of their commodity sectors and decide to work towards market based arrangements with the participation of the private sector for commodity price risk management

Commodity dependent countries, particularly in Africa, will require an integrated approach, including special support to diversify their exports, add value to their commodity exports, build the associated supply capacity, manage commodity price volatility and develop a new generation of commodity financing schemes.

Products originating from a voluntary or forced sale following a termination or change of business, or the disposal of sale goods

Devaluation results in uniform price changes over the whole range of tradeable goods rather than for a selected number of products.

In 1963, the country exported goods worth less than 600 million at today s prices, mostly primary products such as seafood and silk. Fifty years later, it exports goods worth almost 600 billion, mostly electronics, machinery, transportation equipment, and chemical products.

The declining importance of primary commodities in world trade appears to foreshadow a continuation of the long term erosion in the prices of primary commodities relative to those of manufactured goods.

Water, a human right, must not be treated as a commodity sold to the highest bidder.

Recognizing that commodity prices are an important element for heavily indebted poor countries that are dependent on commodities for maintaining long term debt sustainability,

But, though inflation is very low, and even negative in a few countries, something more must be going on, because commodity prices are falling relative to the overall price level. In other words, real commodity prices are falling.

During the consultations, speakers discussed both the long term and the short term dimensions of the problem of commodity price volatility.