World Metal Markets: The United States Strategic Stockpile and Global Market Influence

Author/Contributor(s):	Perkins, Patricia
Publisher:	Praeger
Date:	10/28/1997
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

The United States holds strategic stockpiles of nearly 100 industrial minerals, metals, and other commodities. These stockpiles have influenced the world commodity markets in many ways. This work brings together in one place, documentary and statistical evidence about the size and nature of the U.S. strategic stockpiles, and the ways in which this influence has been evidenced, in markets for the important industrial metals.