Rationality Creeping Back Into the Market

Does anyone else use raw materials besides China? What has happened to the world that one country seems to be the end-all-be-all of everything commodity? Isn't there materials demand elsewhere? Are we simply going to use the price of some commodities to determine the future of hundreds of companies? And are we going to decide that the savings of the consumers of commodities equal nothing to anyone, nothing positive at least, even as we care so much about gross margins?