Definitions for "raw materials"
Unfinished goods consumed by a manufacturer in providing finished goods. Classified...
things that have not been made into products. Gold is a raw material that can be made into cups, jewelry and many other things. BACK
materials in their natural state that are used in manufacturing to create something else. Raw materials become of political importance when their supply is obstructed or threatened, as happened in 1990, when Iraq's invasion of Kuwait threatened to put a sizable portion of the world's oil supplies in unstable hands.