Martin Rapaport

As I move on to other opportunities and challenges, I will still be engaged with our industry.
If countries wish to benefit from US prosperity, they must reciprocate and trade fairly with the US.
The latest innovations provide excellent opportunities for adding value to natural diamonds.
The miner’s lower prices are an opportunity to make money, not drop polished prices.
The KP misrepresents itself as the benchmark for ethical sourcing. The diamond industry must establish its own independent standards.
Geopolitical and economic forces are disrupting the industry, but there’s opportunity to be had in the decline of retailers’ synthetic margins, diamond-jewelry resale and a $72 trillion inheritance boom.
At some stage, synthetic diamonds will go the way of other synthetic gems and get so cheap that they will be less competitive against natural diamonds.
It is vital that the natural-diamond trade develop honest, reliable, effective, efficient and trustworthy source-certification systems.
Adding value by communicating the benefits that your diamonds bring society is an important and vital way to increase your profitability.
Rapaport's editor-in-chief Sonia Esther Soltani will be leaving following the publication of the upcoming issue of Rapaport Magazine.
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Martin Rapaport