U.S. Exports Of Dimension Stone, By Type

TABLE 13
U.S. EXPORTS OF DIMENSION STONE, BY TYPE¹

(Thousand metric tons and thousand dollars)

	2014		2015		Major destination
Type	Quantity	Value	Quantity	Value	in 2015,by value
Marble, travertine, alabaster worked²	104	10,600	86	10,000	Canada, 50%.
Marble, travertine, crude or roughly trimmed	6	6,880	11	13,100	Italy, 87%.
Marble, travertine, merely cut, by sawing or otherwise³	2	2,530	5	4,460	Italy, 20%.
Granite, crude or roughly trimmed	66	24,300	55	21,000	China, 63%.
Granite, merely cut by sawing or otherwise³	22	7,520	18	5,650	Canada, 71%.
Slate, worked and articles of slate	NA	4,170	NA	3,400	Canada, 64%.
Slate, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut³	NA	541	NA	650	Australia, 51%.
Other calcareous monumental or building stone; alabaster⁴	26	10,000	33	10,800	Canada, 94%.
Other monumental or building stone⁵	13	3,770	20	6,010	Canada, 84%.
Total	XX	70,300	XX	75,100
NA Not available.XX Not applicable.
¹Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits; may not add to totals shown.
²Further worked than simply cut with a flat surface.
³Blocks or slabs.
⁴Crude, roughly trimmed, or merely cut into blocks or slabs. Other than marble and travertine.
⁵Crude, roughly trimmed, or merely cut into blocks or slabs. Other than calcareous stone and alabaster, granite, sandstone, slate,
dolomite, quartzite, and steatite.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau.