[WT52] Secretary of Trade investigation into Copper Bars

[wicked roost]

Copper bars with a purchase price of 35 for copper concentrate would price us at 6.5 euros each

If we own a bloomery and a basic upgrade 4 at 20% margin and 40 euros per 1k labor

our supply of copper concentrate makes this extremely difficult because we honestly can't say that there is a reasonable supply of copper concentrate to make copper bars
thus increasing it's demand

a grand total of less than 10 concentrate makes this venture impossible to do but it could indicate to consumers to make and sell more to us to increase a supply of low cost copper bars

prices here have stagnated since week 1 with no real decrease in price

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copper bar directly affects MoI budget when Transmission Poles are taken into consideration

[royal rivet]

in favor. Intervening could also increase copper supply in the medium term

[wicked roost]

(generally inputs shown would be the buy orders for this craft)
35 Copper Concentrate
0.15 Clay Molds

And to cause less market instability we will be reducing the price by more than half from the ~25 euro each to ~10 euro each
Rather than doing a complete destruction of profits at this 5.29 price

we can also look at increasing the buy order from 35 to a great 50 each as this is so in demand right now
Making our margin much smaller and increasing the final price from 5.6 to 9.15 - which we can resell for 10 euros

this increase from 35 to 50 would dramatically change our price on the laser however at the secretary of trade we are more concerned with citizens ability to purchase goods rather than profits or the laser entirely

As noted by another member a great location would be to do this in the mountains rather than out in unica

[stoic jasper]

I'd like to propose SoT to start buying copper ore and crushed copper ore. For x anount of copper ore / crushed ore sold to the SoT, the citizen will get their explosive licence reimbursed. We will in sddition make a few educational posts about finding copper ore, tips and tricks etc. Overall I think we can offer a side activity for some of our citizens who may be looking to diversify their time.

[polar lagoon]

@wicked roost I believe that the sale price of an ingot of 10 euros in the latest calculations is not fair, a citizen who will compete with state-owned enterprises will receive a profit in monetary terms less than he will pay tax.

11 or 12 euros is a fairer selling price.

[stoic jasper]

are we selling copper bars already? if not I hope we can first focus on initiative to push the farm of copper ore

[median goblet]

As far as I’m aware no