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14. Producers of cotton products claim that a cartel of ginneries refuses to sell cotton on the domestic market at less than the Liverpool price, some 25 percent higher than the price would be without transport costs. At this price, they claim, Zambian cotton costs twice as much as Chinese cotton. 15. The Behre Dolbear index ranks Zambia in the bottom 3 of 25 mining countries in currency stability (Behre Dolbear 2011).
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