TABLE 3
YEAREND 1993 PUBLISHED PRICES OF ELEMENTAL IODINE AND SELECTED COMPOUNDS


Dollars per                      Dollars per
kilogram'                         pound'
Calcium iodate, FCC drums, f.o.b. works                                 
                           16.42                             7.45
Calcium iodide, 50-kilogram drums, f.o.b. works                         
                     23.65-25.65                      11.62-12.07
Iodine, crude, drums                                                    
                     10.00-11.00                        4.75- 5.21
Potassium iodide, U.S.P., drums, 5,000-pound lots, delivered            
                           26.48                            12.01
Iodine, U.S.P.                                                          
                           17.00                             7.70
Sodium iodide, U.S.P., crystals, 5,000-pound lots, drums, freight equalized
                        36.38                            16.50
'Conditions of final preparation, transportation, quantities, and qualities
not sated ar subject to negotan m/or somewhat differentprice quotatio.
Source: Chemical Marketing Reporter. V. 245, No. 1, Jan. 3, 1994, pp. 31-37.


TABLE 4
U.S. IMPORTS FOR CONSUMPIHON OF
CRUDE IODINE, BY TYPE AND COUNTRY
(Thousand kilograms and thousand dollars)


1992


Country~                       Quantity       Value'
Iodine, crude:
Chile                              1,963         16,723
Japan                              1,689         16,188
Total                          3,652         32,911
Iodide, potassium:
Canada                               15             166
Chile                                 6             58
India                                40            389
Japan                                -
Other'2                              30            279
Total3                            93            891
Grand total                    3,745         33,802
'Declared c.i.f. valuation.
2Includes Gennany, Mexico, Sweden, Switzerand, and the United Kingdom.
'Data may not add to totals shown because of independent rounding.
Source: Bureau of the Census, as adjusted by the U.S. Bureau of Minea.


1993
Quantity       Value'


1,621
1,880
3,501
17
14
49
34
-11
3,615


12,977
14,696
27,673
184
123
452
238
997
28,670


IODINE-1993














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