Stockpiling

Stockpiling
Definition: Building up a stock of goods. This may be involuntary (caused by overproduction e.g. coal) or a matter of policy e.g. in industries where demand is highly seasonal or in defence industries.

Stockpiling of ODCs to avoid the increasing cost of ODCs.
Non-filed returns in previous periods.
Reclaimed, recycled and mixtures of ODCs that are non-taxable.
Inconsistent reporting patterns by product and quarter.

Stockpiling
The storage of something in order to have it available in the future if the need for it increases.

These price increases serve an important function: they reward domestic producers for stockpiling goods in advance, for maintaining excess production capacity, and for increasing production quickly.

While other countries were betting on mortgages and derivatives, Canadian banks were stockpiling their funds and have enough now to make strategic purchases while the market is on sale.

The CWC prohibits the development, production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons.

Strategic and Critical Stockpiling Act of 1946 authorizes the General Services Administration to maintain strategic stockpiles, and to expand or reduce them, according to changing estimates of defense needs, ...

production method reducing inventory stockpiling just-in-time: a production method that requires necessary materials be at the place of manufacture or assembly at the appropriate time to minimize holding excess inventory, reducing wastage and expense.

Income smoothing - the measures taken to reduce the probability or likelihood of sudden income shocks prior to them occurring, strategies used include diversification of income sources; building up or stockpiling human, physical, ...

The term patent troll is also used more generally of companies that make extensive use of techniques such as stockpiling submarine patents.

See also: Developed countries, Developing countries, Subsidies, Inputs, Tariff