Much like the run-up to the previous flagship product launch, Qualcomm-backed Xiaomi has just announced that it'll be selling a small batchof pre-production second-gen Xiaomi Phones, in the hopes to get some keen users to perform last-minute checks before mass production.
Given the importance of all kinds of chemicals to industry around the world and the ease with which virtually any fertilizer, pharmaceutical or plastics manufacturing plant can be used, when required, to make abatchof weapons agent, no ban on production can solve or even substantially mitigate the chemical weapons problem.
This means that economies of scale arise on the supply side of the market, on the savings from a larger productionbatch with the same fixed resources, on gains from improved bargaining power with suppliers.