U.S. Imports For Consumption Of Clinker, By Country

TABLE 21
U.S. IMPORTS FOR CONSUMPTION OF CLINKER, 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
Canada⁴-	673		33,392	33,693	702	34,144	34,486
China-	5		726	746	12	2,485	3,174
Croatia	2		106	167	(5)	112	168
France-	84		30,580	31,416	92	33,251	34,482
Spain	22	⁶	1,529	1,534	--	--	--
Other	(5)		13	14	(5)	11	19
Total⁷	786	⁶	66,346	67,570	806	70,003	72,329
Puerto Rico	--		--	--	--	--	--
Grand Total^{4, 7}	786	⁶	66,346	67,570	806	70,003	72,329
-- Zero.
¹For all types of hydraulic cement. Data are unrounded but are thought to be accurate to no more than three significant digits. Excludes
Puerto Rico, which had no imports of clinker for the years shown.
²Customs value. The 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.
⁴Data are underreported with respect to additional material coming in as -informal entries.-
⁵Less than - unit.
⁶Excludes 16,499 metric tons of white cement clinker that was misregistered by the importer as white cement and which has thus been included
in table 20.
⁷May not add to totals shown because of independent rounding.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau.