Sugar, alcohol and tobacco, economist Adam Smith once wrote, are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which have become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are, therefore, extremely popular subjects of taxation.
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Consumers will spend their savings from cheap oil on other commodities.
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It has resulted in a free fall of the prices of commodities.
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The rising tide of trade is also good news for people who work in trade-sensitive businesses, especially those that produce commodities for which global demand sets the price?–?agricultural goods, mining, metals, oil.
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In the grass fed system, farmers are also not subject to the wildly fluctuating milk prices of the international commodity market.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
A new commodity brings about a highly profitable, fast-growing industry, urging antitrust反壟斷regulators to step in to check those who control its flow.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
It was a year before she became head of a tiny Internet-based commodities exchange.