Apple and Samsung carry "Groats of Russia": continue to buy valuable metals from aggressor

The main cover still is Kazakhstan, India and China, where the Russian Federation supplies its raw materials, and they "laundered" Russian metal sells electronics to its manufacturers. According to the results of 2022, Apple no longer purchases Russian tantalum and gold, but still receives tungsten from Molyzhen Moscow. In turn, Samsung does not neglect Russian tantalum, tungsten, copper, gold and other valuable raw materials.

The South Korean company purchases them at the plants "Hydrometallurg", "Molyzhin", Uztm, "Urallektromemed", "Kraskvitmet" and others. Although, after Russia's attack on Ukraine, Western technological companies sharply reduced (by 70%) their purchase of metals in the Russian Federation still completely abandon Russian raw materials - the Russian Federation is strongly dumping and some types of metal because of the deficit is not easy to buy from other suppliers.

In any case, it is impossible to blame Apple-the company does not have a plant for the production of equipment and cooperates with Chinese contractors of the FOXCONN, QUANTA or COMPAL. Although they take into account Apple's wishes not to use metal from Russia in circuits and semiconductors, but still there is no guarantee that it is not primarily for Chinese raw materials, which the PRC purchases in the Russian Federation.

The factories may also receive raw materials from other suppliers that can buy it in Russia. But Samsung has its own factories, but in its purchases it does not restrain itself by continuing to buy metals from the Russian Federation due to the lack of alternative, especially in the segment of rare earth elements and heavy -duty metals, say the interlocutors of the editions related to Russian metallurgy.