Plastics & Polymers (tons, base price $1,000) is polymer and extrusion output — feedstock for manufacturing, healthcare packaging, automobiles, and construction.
Market behaviour
Prices blend 75% global supply/demand with 25% regional pressure and drift toward equilibrium at 6% per turn. Shortages compress downstream margins logarithmically; surpluses hand sellers a premium on the same curve.
Who supplies it
Plastics & Polymers has no direct producing sector — supply is driven by the base market stabilizer and any seeded inventory.
Who demands it
Sectors that consume Plastics & Polymers as an input, with per-revenue demand rates:
- Automobiles — 12% of sector revenue
- Manufacturing — 8% of sector revenue
- Construction — 7% of sector revenue
- Healthcare — 6% of sector revenue
- Agriculture — 5% of sector revenue
- Retail — 5% 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.