downstream
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Applying only to certain carbon-intensive sectors, it raises prices to reflect the cost of embedded carbon and so creates a perverse incentive to outsource production of downstream goods.
Instead it sets priorities: identifying strategic chokepoints, sequencing capacity build-out, applying targeted relief where downstream producers would otherwise be squeezed, and holding firm where security exposure is unacceptable.
“There was no motor on that boat. It was allowed to drift downstream.”
From Los Angeles Times
This doesn’t count the job losses in downstream manufacturing firms that use steel and aluminum.
Further downstream, buyers can find themselves owning an interest in a vehicle that owns exposure to another vehicle, which in turn owns exposure to another vehicle that ultimately holds the desired company’s stock.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.