SILICON 843 
 
Table 5—U S imports for consumption of ferrosilicon and silicon
metal

by grade and country —Continued 
  1984 
 QuantityGrade and country (short tons) 
 Gross Silicon 
 weight content 
 
1985 
 
 
Quantity 
Value (short tons) 
(thou- - 
sands) Gross Silicon weight content 
 
Value 
(thou- 
sandai 
Ferrosiiicon —Continued 
Over 60% but not over 80% silicon, with over 
 3% calcium —Continued 
  Italy 146 104 $148 37 24 $35 
  Mexico 44 26 10 —— —— ——

 Spain —— —— ——
312 191 291 
    Total' 6,798 4,301 6,207 8,554 5,340 7,714 
 
Over 60% but not over 80% silicon, not 
 elsewhere classified: 
 Argentina 1,743 1,319 759 5,741 4,416 2,817 
 Belgium-Luxembourg 17 13 53 -- -- -- 
 Brazil 17,793 13,311 9,209 21,120 15,918 10,411 
 Canada 8,652 6,564 5,096 12,877 9,812 6,590 
 Chile 1,068 822 598 —— —— ——

 France 575 440 492 413 317 393 
 Germany, Federal Republic of 968 727 1,401 1,079 802 1,575 
 Iceland 2,582 1,937 1,259 5,295 4,011 2,229 
 Israel 4,327 3,245 1,919 —— —— ——

 Norway 23,710 17,746 11,619 23,598 17,632 10,293 
 Poland 799 589 372 —— —— ——

 Portugal 4,021 3,056 2,099 —— —- ——

 South Africa, Republic of 1,382 1,079 796 4,144 3,168 2,076 
 Sweden 111 83 111 —— —— ——

 United Kingdom -- -- -- 19 14 11 
 Venezuela 25,377 19,074 10,046 20,768 15,302 9,297 
 Yugoslavia —— —— -— 1,101
835 529 
 Total1 93,125 70,005 45,829 96,154 72,228 46,222 
 
Over 80% but not over 90% silicon: 
  Belgium-Luxembourg 76 69 59 19 17 16 
  Brazil 220 187 158 498 422 312 
  Canada 55 45 19 —— —— ——

  *France 38 32 23 —— —— ——

  Norway 441 383 203 358 315 132 
  Spain 231 206 156 —— —— ——

 Total1 1,063 923 619 875 754 460 
 
Over 90% but not over 96% silicon: 
  Belgium-Luxembourg 38 36 33 - - - - - 
  Canada 20 20 11 -- -— 
  Germany, Federal Republic of - — - - - — 20 19 11 
  Italy 41 38 32 —— —— ——

  South Africa, Republic of (2) (2) (2) — — —
— —
— 
 Total' 100 94 76 20 19 11 
 Total ferrosilicon1 143,651 96,027 72,874 155,421 102,656 74,019 
 
Silicon metal: 
Oyer 96% but not over 99% silicon: 
 Argentina ——  —— 440  475 
 Brazil ——  —— 55  48 
 Canada 3,101  3,425 4,257  4,898 
 France 114  106 65  79 
 Italy ——  —— 1,134  1,020 
 Portugal 22 NA 15 -- NA -- 
 South Africa, Republic of 244  247 - -  - — 
 Spain 105  71 116  115 
 Sweden --  -- 551  585 
 Switzerland 37  29 19  15 
 UnitedKingdom --  -- 36  37 
 Yugoslavia 3,130  3,219 2,680  2,412 
    Total' 6,753 NA 7,113 9,353 NA 9,684 
 
Over 99% but not over 99.7% silicon: 
 Argentina 1,203 1,181 1,322 1,5w 1,508 1,482 
 Belgium-Luxembourg 115 107 103 18 18 18 
 Brazil 2,665 2,640 2,792 13,283 13,122 13,071 
 Canada 5,123 5,076 6,196 6,027 5,959 7,231 
 China 441 434 411 165 162 157 
 Denmark (2) (2) 1 —— —— ——

 France 3,988 3,956 4,354 3,869 3,837 4,012 
 
See footnotes at end of table.