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I don’t see much trade opportunities from looking at a map- unless India or China have a desire for a route through there with someone else. Possibly for oil.
by ianai 5y ago
I don’t see much trade opportunities from looking at a map- unless India or China have a desire for a route through there with someone else. Possibly for oil.
Another meme is they’re a resource for rare earths. What people forget is the US has plenty of rare earths - if people want it enough.
- redis_mlc 5y agoThere was a superficial article posted on HN earlier this week about rare earths there. But it's not really the rare earths that are valuable - it's all the other metals. That region has tin, which is actually rare and supplied the Bronze Age, as well as other metals in enriched deposits that make mining lucrative.
- lenkite 5y agoCombined import/export trade with India is ~1.5 billion USD per year. Not much but still significant for Afghanistan. "Federation of India Export Organisation expressed concern that in coming days dry fruit prices may go up due to the turmoil in Afghanistan. India is importing around 85 per cent of dry fruits from Afghanistan."