TABLE 8
U.S. IMPORTS FOR CONSUMPTION OF NATURAL GRAFHITE, BY COUNTRY


Crystalline flake'
Country            Quantity     Value'
(metric      (thou-
tons)       sands)
1991                      12,301      $11,936
1992:


Lump or chippy dust
Quantity Value'
(metric  (thou-
tons)    sands)
434       $626


Other natural crude
and refinod'
Quantity     Value'
(metric      (thou-
tons)       sands)
9,229       $7,699


Amorphous                 Total2
Quantity     Value      Quantity    Value'
(metric     (thou-      (metric     (thou-
tons)      sands)      tors)       sands)
11,580      $1,401     33,544      $21,662


Austria
Brazil
Canada
China
Prance
Germany
India
Japan
Macau
Madagascar
Mexico
Russia
Sri Lanka
United Kingdom
Zimbabwe
Other'
Total
1993:
Austria
Brazil
Canada
China
Prance
Germany
Hong Kong
India
Japan
Madagascar
Mexico
Namibia
Norway
South Africa,
Republic of
Sri Lanka
Switzerland
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Zimbabwe
Other'
Total'


'810
7,470
'3,380
41
51
178
(4)
2,011
46
'497
1
'14,485
328
8,050
2,818
76
136
21
2,011
16
56


74
(6)
101
521
198
14,406


'1,249
4,856
'1,643
74
149
88
(4)
1,730
73
'380
11
'10,253


492
492


528
528


453
4,689
1,246
182
1,743
10
1,419
9
23


111
7
123
255
104
10,374


712
712


562
562


'810
9,130
'3,416
109
13
160
'3,190
1,341
387
15
4
'497
3
'19,075
2,952
9,838
6,485
57
21
199
333
1,341
387
10
16
20
1,217
(6)
22,875


t1,2
5,400
'2,029
462
101
173
'1,413
1,003
259
35
9
'380
4
'12,528
4,079
5,730
2,892
435
114
279
1,663
946
162


117
60
10
596
14
17,097


20
1,663
40
13,970
15,693
20
91
385
13,681


14,177


10          20
-        1,620
-       16,600
436       8,459
-          150
-           64
338
-        3,190
30          40
-        3,352
1,752      14,357
-           15
-          492
-           49
-          994
_            4
2,228      49,744
10          20
-        3,280
-       17,888
14       9,394
-          133
-          157
61         385
-         220
-          333
-        3,352
1,732      14,068
-           16
-  -     :  56
-           74
-          712
-           11
-           16
-          121
-        1,738
-          198
1,817      52,172


10
2,509
10,256
4,108
537
250
261
1,413
30
2,733
2,011
35
528
82
760
1S
25,538
10
4,532
10,419
4,152
617
1,857
61
288
1,663
2,365
1,894
9
23
111
562
124
60
134
851
118
29,850


%evised.
'The information framewoik from which data for this material were derived
originated from Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) base data.
2Daft may not add to total shown because of independent rounding.
'Cusoms values.
4Revised to zero.
'Includes Armenia, Austalia (1993), Belgium, Finland (1992), Italy, and Poland
(1993).
61t dan 1/2 umii


Source: Bureau of the Census, adjusted by the U.S. Bureau of Mines.


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