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The world demand for non-renewable commodities has risen significantly over the last few years and several countries now face potentially serious problems in view of their exacerbated reliance on outside sources of essential materials. The overwhelming attention given to oil and gas has made it relatively easy to overlook the vital importance to industrialised countries of strategic minerals and metals for a considerable number of which there seems to be essentially no substitute.
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M.I. Goldman, ‘The Changing Role of Raw Material Exports and Soviet Foreign Trade’, in Soviet Economy in a Time of Change Joint Economic Committee, US Congress (Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1979) pp. 177–95
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© 1982 Giuseppe Schiavone
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Schiavone, G. (1982). Non-Fuel Minerals and East-West Interdependence. In: Schiavone, G. (eds) East-West Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06327-7_6
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