Copper (tons, base price $9,000) is extractable industrial metal — wiring and conductors for construction, manufacturing, automobiles, and telcos.
Market behaviour
Prices blend 50% global + 25% national (country-aggregate) + 25% regional (state), drifting toward equilibrium at 6% per turn (95% closed in one game year). Raw D/S remains visible for diagnosis; price and margin math use the same raw ratio up to 3x, then a softened effective pressure tail beyond that.
Sector profit margins are computed separately at three tiers — global, national, and local (state) — then blended at 50/25/25 by default. Tariff pressure shifts weight from the global leg to the national leg (local stays fixed at 25%), so a heavily-tariffed country becomes more sensitive to its own domestic supply chain. See Commodities for the full pricing mechanics and margin formula.
Because Copper is an extractable resource, per-state output is capped by state resource capacity. The live distribution below shows each country's current capacity alongside supply and demand.
Who supplies it
Sectors that produce Copper as output, with per-revenue supply rates:
- Extraction & Mining — 7% of sector revenue
Who demands it
Sectors that consume Copper as an input, with per-revenue demand rates:
- Telecommunications — 9% of sector revenue
- Manufacturing — 8% of sector revenue
- Automobiles — 8% of sector revenue
- Technology — 6% of sector revenue
- Energy — 4% of sector revenue
- Construction — 4% of sector revenue
Live distribution
Per-country totals below are pulled live from the current turn's market snapshot. Countries with positive net are exporters on balance; negative nets are importers.