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LATEST FROM THE TRADE
The Diamond Racket
Jewish control of the world diamond market, starting
with the De Beers monopoly of South Africa, has long been common knowledge
to all those familiar with the trade.
Globes Online
(Israel's Business Arena) Israeli
diamond cutters to expand De Beers
is allocating fewer diamonds to Israel. Hadas Manor 22 July 2003 17:01 TEL AVIV—Sources inform "Globes" that Israel Diamond Exchange management yesterday made an immediate and urgent decision yesterday to conduct negotiations for importing diamonds into Israel, through channels other than the De Beers diamond syndicate and brokers. Israel Diamond Exchange president Shmuel Schnitzer yesterday confirmed the plan to "Globes", saying, "The De Beers syndicate supplies Israeli diamond merchants with just over 20% of the raw diamonds they need. Diamond Exchange management has therefore decided to find additional sources to supply raw diamonds." Diamonds imported directly to Israel will cost much less than those bought through brokers, who are needed because of the low quotas assigned by the syndicate. Schnitzer predicted that the volume of raw diamond reaching Israel through channels other than the syndicate would amount to several hundred million dollars annually. De Beers currently controls 55% of the world's raw diamonds, amounting to $3-4 billion per year, of which $1 billion is supplied to Israel.
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