2133 Widespread Panic
Because of the lack of Longguo Mining Company, the prices of international commodities have begun to fall in recent times.
Especially in the copper concentrate powder, the decline is the most obvious.
The price of more than 11,000 US dollars per ton has now dropped to around 10,000 US dollars.
But it still has no market price. Although Japanese and Korean companies also import some copper concentrate, their consumption is very limited.
As for Europe and the United States, they purchase goods at a long-term contract price.
International prices have little impact on them. To put it bluntly, international prices are only targeted at the Dragon Kingdom.
But now people in Long are no longer accepting the challenge, so you can just increase it, but we just won’t buy it anyway.
Like the copper mine problem, there is also LNG, which originally raised the price and made all kinds of resource merchants interested.
But the problem is that in recent times, the number of orders from the Dragon Kingdom has begun to drop sharply.
They also asked each other several times about the reason, but the other party said that their domestic resource structure was being adjusted.
If you can't wait, you can sell it to Europe.
Anyway, Europe is also in a panic, and it is still winter, and it is the peak period for natural gas use.
We won't make any money with them, and we are very arrogant.
But it sounds like this in the ears of energy suppliers in Europe and the United States.
If the people of Longguo do not participate in the bidding, they will really have to face European buyers.
But how could European buyers be so obedient?
Just say that the Germans and French will let you slaughter?
They are famous for being thorny, and they have very diverse countermeasures.
If the natural gas you give them is expensive, then they will go to find Maoxiong to buy it.
By that time, it will not be a business matter, but a political matter.
And if you raise the price for them, they will definitely take revenge.
Moreover, the things that others export to you can also increase the price, and you cannot do without their supply.
The most important thing is that people can also increase tax on the goods you enter into the EU.
Anyway, they also have many means to counterattack, so it is very uncomfortable to do business with them.
This makes everyone embarrassed. The price is high, but no one takes over what to do?
In the past, Long Kingdom was an important buyer, and even to put it bluntly, they could still let them ask for it.
After all, the Long Kingdom is a country with weak technology, and many technologies rely on them, and exporting goods also depends on them.
If you are unwilling to abide by their pricing, the people of Longguo themselves will be the ones who are in the end.
But now it’s different. People’s technology has begun to be independent and their products are more competitive. The most important thing is that they don’t rely on them for their energy and resources.
You can just increase your price, but we just don’t buy it anyway, it depends on who you sell it to.
The embarrassing thing is these energy and resource giants.
The price of LNG has obviously dropped recently. At the most expensive time, it has risen to more than 1,000 US dollars per ton, but now it has dropped by several hundred US dollars.
The copper concentrate powder also showed a significant decline.
The reason why the price was adjusted was because they wanted to attract Longguo merchants back.
But the problem is that if you want to see the effect, it seems that it will take at least more than a month to go.
It depends on how much inventory there is in the warehouses of those docks in Longguo.
If there are too many stocks, it will probably be enough for them to use for two or three months.
Then if there are two or three months, they will not import copper concentrate powder from overseas.
Then everyone still plays?
When Duke Hamilton thought of this, he suddenly felt a splitting headache.
He gave himself a glass of whiskey, and then called the beautiful maid to bring him an ice bucket.
I added two pieces of ice and took a big sip, and then I felt that my anxiety had relieved a lot.
This feeling of waiting for the rabbit is really unpleasant...
But the only news that made him feel better was that the stock prices of Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton have also suddenly fluctuated recently.
And it is also a downward fluctuation, and it seems that there is no intention to stop yet.
It is said that it is not because of their iron ore that has something wrong, but because of their cobalt ore.
It was also the same problem as their copper concentrate. Suddenly, the people of Long stopped importing cobalt ore from overseas.
Damn, what's wrong?
You should know that Long Kingdom had already found out that it was a cobalt-poor country, and their domestic cobalt ore reserves were less than one percent of the world.
Many modern industrial projects are inseparable from this rare metal.
Especially the electric vehicle project they vigorously promote.
In the past, they did not vigorously develop ternary lithium because they lack cobalt ore and nickel ore.
They all need to be imported from Africa, Indonesia, and the Kangaroo Kingdom.
Several major rare metal mines in the world are basically controlled by Rio Tinto and BHP.
Originally, these rude kangaroos were still thinking of relying on these mineral resources to make a fortune from the people of Longguo.
Unexpectedly, I was slapped in a big mouth this time.
Several battery manufacturing companies in Longguo suddenly made a big publicity to enter the Sanyuanli industry.
They have even started to build factories, but the problem is that although their factory has been invested, they have not imported cobalt concentrate powder and nickel concentrate powder from abroad.
These two rare metals are indispensable things in the manufacture of ternary lithium batteries.
Could they have invented some new technology that can bypass this ternary lithium battery?
This is impossible? They have never announced to the public that they have made such a major breakthrough in technology?
So what medicine did they buy in the gourd?
Moreover, according to the tips sent back by their informants, many battery companies in Longguo have actually refined a large amount of cobalt and nickel elements themselves.
But if they did not import a large amount of mineral powder from overseas, where did their raw materials be extracted?
Did it pop out of the crack of the stone?
It is said that Rio Tinto and BHP are already crazy. They have tried their best to figure out what is going on.
There is also the Vale in Brazil, where teams have been sent to the Dragon Kingdom to lobby.
They also wanted to figure out the situation, and they were previously the main iron ore supplier of Long Kingdom.
But the problem is that they, like Rio Tinto and Brighton, do not only produce iron ore.
They also own a lot of copper concentrate, cobalt ore, nickel ore, and these rare metal ore.
At this time, the Long Kingdom suddenly began to reduce the purchase of various rare metal mines from abroad, and these world-class mineral resource giants were immediately panicked.
Chapter completed!