raw material

A report by historian Anne Sudrow alleges that the Swiss company ordered raw materials from a garden in the Dachau camp.

India continues to be reliant on China for its manufacturing, because it sources raw materials and components from there.

To soften the blow, the government has announced some measures - a suspension of import duties on raw materials, for instance.

Sometimes referred to as microchips or integrated circuits, they are made from tiny fragments of raw materials, such as silicon.

That stance explains why securing access to raw materials has been at the heart of recent EU trade deals, such as the one it signed with Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay last year.