TABLE 19 | |||||||||||||
U.S. IMPORTS FOR CONSUMPTION OF GRAY PORTLAND CEMENT, BY COUNTRY1- | |||||||||||||
(Thousand metric tons and thousand dollars) | |||||||||||||
2012 | 2013 | ||||||||||||
Value | Value | ||||||||||||
Country | Quantity | Customs2 | C.i.f.3 | Quantity | Customs2 | C.i.f.3 | |||||||
Canada- | 2,718 | 208,397 | 222,397 | 2,558 | 202,313 | 209,468 | |||||||
China | 327 | 16,327 | 24,989 | 457 | 21,355 | 32,477 | |||||||
Colombia- | 78 | 4,049 | 6,216 | 1 | 138 | 190 | |||||||
Curacao | -- | -- | -- | 3 | 301 | 303 | |||||||
Greece | 609 | 27,033 | 40,267 | 686 | 30,312 | 44,006 | |||||||
Italy | (4) | 4 | 4 | 116 | 5,324 | 8,214 | |||||||
Korea, Republic of | 1,276 | 55,023 | 84,874 | 1,243 | 55,195 | 84,508 | |||||||
Mexico- | 22 | 5 | 1,533 | 5 | 1,848 | 5 | 22 | 5 | 1,552 | 5 | 1,843 | 5 | |
Netherlands- | 5 | 519 | 537 | -- | -- | -- | |||||||
Sweden- | 131 | 4,750 | 9,653 | 43 | 1,823 | 3,367 | |||||||
Taiwan- | 39 | 1,958 | 2,743 | 270 | 13,704 | 19,202 | |||||||
Other | (4) | 132 | 525 | (4) | 131 | 211 | |||||||
Total6, 7 | 5,203 | 5 | 319,717 | 5 | 394,045 | 5 | 5,399 | 5 | 332,148 | 5 | 403,789 | 5 | |
Puerto Rico: | |||||||||||||
Guatemala- | (4) | 7 | 9 | -- | -- | -- | |||||||
Spain | 124 | 7,949 | 10,185 | 132 | 9,031 | 11,116 | |||||||
Total6, 7 | 124 | 7,956 | 10,194 | 132 | 9,031 | 11,116 | |||||||
Grand total6, 7 | 5,327 | 5 | 327,672 | 5 | 404,239 | 5 | 5,532 | 5 | 341,178 | 5 | 414,906 | 5 | |
-- Zero. | |||||||||||||
1Data are unrounded but are thought to be accurate to no more than three significant digits. | |||||||||||||
2The price actually paid or payable for merchandise when sold for exportation to the United States, excluding U.S. import duties, freight,- | |||||||||||||
insurance, and other charges incurred in bringing the merchandise to the United States. | |||||||||||||
3Cost, insurance, and freight. The value represents the customs value plus insurance, freight, and other delivery charges to the first port | |||||||||||||
of entry, but excludes costs of offloading, other U.S. port handling charges, and demurrage. | |||||||||||||
4Less than - unit. | |||||||||||||
5Data are underreported with respect to imports into the El Paso, TX, customs district owing to additional material coming in as -informal entries.- | |||||||||||||
6May not add to totals shown because of independent rounding. | |||||||||||||
7Total imports do not include gray portland cement that was misregistered by importers under the white cement tariff code; | |||||||||||||
these quantities are included in table 20. | |||||||||||||
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau. |
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program
See also: Mineral commodity prices