Talc and Tankers, barges and fuel trucks

Their prices have moved together.

Talc (commodity) and Tankers, barges and fuel trucks (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: freight cost

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Much traded talc travels by sea from China, Pakistan and India, so freight adds to landed cost. The US proxy shows no link with deep-sea freight prices, monthly moves at -0.14 and yearly moves at 0.07, because it measures domestic producer prices.

• -0.14 monthly change correlation
• 0.07 12-month change correlation
• 0.99 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.