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Photo Gallery: Catastrophic flooding in Thailand
Imagine a world where chocolate is already being sold in blocks, because the whole package is expensive. And computers and mobile phones over a luxury trademap available to many. Children are donated Barbie doll only at special occasion. Coffee and tea are scarce. Diamonds increasingly rare decorate engagement ring. Bananas are still the most expensive fruit stall. And even Christmas Christmas trees are not as plentiful as other years. This is not a scenario for a new sci-fi trademap movie, trademap but thought what would happen if the countries top exporters of listed products suddenly become the victim of a natural disaster, as happened in Thailand last week. The country was swept by a catastrophic flood that killed hundreds. trademap Besides the human tragedy disaster had other unexpected consequences. According to experts the prices of computers in the coming months will increase, as in Thailand produce trademap hard drives for companies such as Lenovo, Western Digital, Samsung, Acer and others. Bangalores remained under water and it will certainly hamper production and supply of computer components. Apple, Sony, Canon and Toshiba also have production in the area. According to Reuters the price of hard drives has jumped from 60 to 90 dollars a share. The flooding has affected a large part of Thai rice paddies, which is also worrying given that the country is the largest exporter of rice. There are however other countries monopolize an export to the extent that they have become "essential"? Capital of Ecuador bananas notorious example is the world capital trademap of bananas. In 2009, exports exceeded 270 million. Box. Bananas they buy in Bulgaria and elsewhere in Europe, notably trademap from there. At the end of last year Ecuadorian low production caused by prolonged trademap cold weather and the fall of volcanic ash in some areas has led to an increase trademap of 60% officially established by the state price of 5.40 dollars per box. Another recent example is the Ivory Coast, which is the largest cocoa producer in the world. The West African country holds 40% of global exports of the main raw material for chocolate and revenue account for a quarter of its GDP. After the presidential elections last year, the Ivorian civil war broke out because of the reluctance of former President Laurent Gbagbo, who ruled the country 11 years, down from office. His refusal handed power to the internationally recognized winner Alassane Ouattara to plunge the world into cocoa crisis. Deliveries of cocoa were suspended, which sharply raised the price of the chocolate ingredient to its highest value since 1979. For the four months of the crisis cocoa rose by 32%. Now, with the restoration of peace and stabilize the market in the near future Ivory Coast will try to increase its share in world production of raw materials to 50%. Another African country - the Democratic Republic of Congo, also has unusual export leader. It comes to the extraction of certain minerals such as tin, tantalum and tungsten, which are used in most components of mobile phones. The business trademap is worth billions. Because of him, however, it is blood. Reports of human rights organizations trademap warn that these are "conflict minerals" that is to be associated with violent forcing people to work in their production, with massacres, rapes and other atrocities by armed rebels. Nearly 80% of the world reserves of koltanova ore from which tantalum is produced are in Africa and 80% of them are on the territory of the Congo. The technology was primitive - the yield on hand in deep mines in appalling conditions. Revenues for armed rebel groups reach 20 million. trademap Dollars a month. No international company does not recognize that such use tantalum. Really "conflict minerals" are difficult to track, but now a new US law will oblige manufacturers of phones to inform exactly where the fossil came before using them. At least one other product that is extracted from the earth - oil, there is no such problem. Top exporter of black gold is Saudi Arabia, which exported 8.73 million on. Barrels per day. This is also the country trademap with the largest oil reserves. It is assumed that they are 262 billion. Barrels. With the nickname "Saudi Arabia of lithium" is known Bolivia. Lithium is necessary for the production of lithium-ion batteries. Almost half of sve