The Labor Department's Producer Price Index, which measures the cost of raw materials and semifinished goods before they reach the consumer, fell seven-tenths of 1 percent last month.

Although raw materials and semifinished goods still kick in two thirds of Brazil's export revenues, few nations have done as much to develop their natural bounty, whether in mining, energy or agriculture.

Container ships, which are vital to the world's trade in manufactured and semifinished goods, are mostly capable of high speeds and sit high enough above the sea to be difficult to board.

Paragraph 2.32 of the Guidelines explains that the cost plus method is "most useful where semifinished goods are sold between related parties, where related parties have concluded joint facility agreements or long-term buy-and-supply arrangements, or where the controlled transaction is the provision of services".

Semi-finished goods which are a major part of our industry are down by 7 percent.

The long-term average is 82.0% for semi-finished goods facilities.

Secondary sector processes raw materials or semi-finished goods into more valuable products.

But exports from the auto industry as well as of capital and semi-finished goods declined.

Volumes depend on consumer demand for the finished and semi-finished goods shipped in containers.

Indeed, given the increasing trade in commodities, semi-finished goods and components worldwide, it is doubtful whether such an analysis could be carried out.

The report suggested that inflation could accelerate because more manufacturers were raising the prices of raw and semi-finished goods as the economy grew.

Semi-finished goods also jumped on the month, rising 0.6 percent from January but rose just 2.9 percent from a year earlier.

Semi-finished goods fell 0.4 percent but energy rose 1.4 percent and construction output increased by 0.7 percent.

But much of this is in commodities and semi-finished goods, with America, Japan or Europe as the final destination.

- Stocks of raw materials and semi-finished goods also fell at the sharpest rate in the life of the survey.

Output of semi-finished goods also fell 1.5 percent in September, notably in metals, chemical and plastics products.

Semi-finished goods prices fell 1.3 percent, while prices in the agri-food sector dropped 0.6 percent.

In investment terms, raw materials or semi-finished goods such as wheat, coffee, pork bellies, copper, etc.

Belgium imports raw materials and semi-finished goods that are further processed and re-exported.

The sector has been hit by plummeting demand as trade in the finished and semi-finished goods it transports has collapsed.

And the prices of many semi-finished goods that manufacturers buy, including metal parts, chemicals and fabrics, have been rising briskly for months.

Semi-finished goods output was flat month-on-month.

Alberta can expect exports of raw and semi-finished goods to taper in 2005 as most commodity prices near their cyclical peak.

It creates low carbon footprint materials, semi-finished goods and building modules suitable for uses ranging from construction to consumer products.

A rising share of trade consists of parts, semi-finished goods and final products moving across borders between parent companies and their foreign subsidiaries.

But semi-finished goods, consumer goods (notably pharmaceuticals), food and automobiles are all clearly falling.'

Toll manufacturing is an arrangement whereby a first firm with specialized equipment processes raw materials or semi-finished goods for a second firm.

For the broad range of finished and semi-finished goods imports, the exchange rate is likely to be the more significant influence on their prices in the UK.

If large volumes of raw materials and possibly manufactured and semi-finished goods were routed through the temples, what role does that leave the secular authority?