Uploaded on 2020-03-12 by XAVIER, Mário

In the photo it is possible to observe a strong façade of a building. This façade incorporates iron structures, and bricks assembled together with cement. In Netherlands there is only one cement plant due to territory constraints (namely the water table) so they must import it mainly from Germany and Belgium (source: https://www.globalcement.com/magazine/articles/663-cement-in-belgium-and-the-netherlands, visited on 12/03/2020). Regarding raw aluminium, it corresponds to 0.49% of all imports. 36% of the raw aluminium comes from Iceland. Iron structures correspond to 0.71% of all imports. 32% of the iron structures come from Germany and 26% come from Belgium-Luxembourg. As we see in the picture, the building is equipped with an automated parking facility, meaning that Integrated Circuits - IC - are needed (corresponding to 1.9% of all imports). 22% of the IC come from Singapore, and 12% come from Malasya. Also during the construction lifting machinerie will be needed corresponding to 0.17% of all dutch imports. 20% of the machines come from the United States, 19% from Germany and 12% from China. (Source of the statistics regarding 2017: https://oec.world/en/profile/country/nld/, visited on 12/03/2020) In a quick investigation we can observe a chain of global economic dependencies with Germany, Belgium, Iceland, US, Singapore, China, Malasya.