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Here's a major point to consider, whenever we're talking about any relatively cheap product being shipped across the ocean - boats cannot travel empty. It's not safe, and not efficient, they have to be loaded. So if a ship brings a load of bauxite to Argentina, there needs to be something, ANYTHING, waiting at the harbour to fill that boat up again before it can leave. In fact, during WWII, when the US was sending thousands of liberty class container ships full of food and goods to support the British, those ships had to be loaded with something for the return trip. Many were simply loaded with large amounts of rocks and dirt, which was promptly dumped off the coast of the US on their return.
So if a country is currently importing a lot more than they're exporting, in terms of filled shipping containers, they absolutely have to find something to export to establish balance.
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