108 67 United Kingdom 25;~ Japan 21. 
 1,701 5,118 
 1 1 
 12 71 
 74 296 
 —— 272 
 —— 167 
 3,888 ~1,461 Japan 693; West Germany 513. 
 40 ~679 Italy 659. 
 $745 ~$4,158 
 $1,331 ~$4,253 
 —— 282 
 NA 72 
All from United Kingdom. 
Belgium-Luxembourg $3,867. 
Japan 272. 
All from Kenya. 
NA ~245 Morocco 203. 
 1,879 1,662 
 NA 129 
 50 207 
 177 244 
 8,965 18 
 —— 91 
 $536 ~$340 
 41,244 57,932 
 NA 28,250 
 90 620 
 NA Not available. 
 ' Owing to the lack of official trade data published by China, this table
should not be taken as a complete presentation of China's mineral trade.
These data have been compiled from various sources which include United Nations
information and data published by the trading partners. 
 2Unl~ otherwise specified, data are compiled from the 1977 edition of the
World Trade Annual, prepared by the Statistical Office of the United Nations,
Walker and Co., New York, 1979, as well as official trade statistics of Czechoslovakia,
Hungary, Poland, and the U.S.S.R. 
 3Unless otherwise specified, data are compiled from official trade statistics
of individual trading partners. 
 ~1978 World Trade Annual, Statistical Office of the United Nations, Walker
and Co., New York, 1980. 
 ' Official trade statistics of Japan. 
 6World Metal Statistics, World Bureau of Metal Statistics, London, 1979.

 7Metallgesellschaft AG. Metal Statistics 1968-78, 66th ed., Frankfurt am
Main, 1979. 
 ' Australian Mineral Industry Quarterly, Australian Government Publishing
Service, Canberra, 1979. 
244 
MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1978-79 
 
Table 3.—China: Apparent imports of selected mineral commodities1
—Continued

(Metric tons unless otherwise specified( 
 
Commodity 19772 1978~ Principal sources, 1978 
METALS —Continued 
 
Platinum-group metals, unworked or partly 
worked value, thousands_ — $2,058 ~$4,366 
Silver, unworked or partly worked      do_ — — - - -
4$49 
Tantalummetal,allforms  ~2 1 
Tin metal, unwrought  - - 2 
Titanium oxide  1,246 1,219 
Tungstenmetal, all forms  7 13 
Zinc: 
  Oxide  238 78 
  Metal including alloys: 
     Unwrought  5,056 5,158 
     Semimanufactures  2 8 
Other: 
  Oxides, hydroxides, peroxides____________ 
  Metals: 
     Metalloids____________________ 
     Base metals including alloys, all forms, 
      n.e.s_________________________ 
            NONMETALS 
Abrasives: Grinding and polishing stones______ 
Asbestos                              
Boron oxideandacid____________________ 
Cement thousand tons_ 
Clay products: 
  Refractory                          
 Nonrefractory                        
Diamond: 
 Gem, not set or strung — — value, thousands_ - 
 Industrial do_ - - - 
Diatomite and other infusorial earth_________ 
Feldsparand fluorspar___________________ 
Fertilizer materials: 
 Crude, nitrogenous thousand tons.. - 
 Manufactured: 
 Nitrogenous do_ — — — 
 Phosphatic do____ 
 Potassic do____ 
 Other, including mixed do_ — - - 
 
Gypsumandplasters____________________ 
Magnesite___________________________ 
Precious and semiprecious stones 
 value, thousands_ - 
Sodium and potassium compounds, n.es.: 
 Causticsoda                       
 
 Soda ash__________________________ Stone, dimension_______________________

Sulfur: 
  Elemental 254,222 205,235 
  Sulfuric acid —— 3 
Other: 
  Crude -- 3 
  Slag,dross,otherwaste -- 7 
  Oxides of magnesium, strontium, barium - - - - - - 52 
  Halogens 40 53 
MINERAL FUELS AND RELATED MATERIALS 
Carbon black 7,114 17,153 
Coal, anthracite and bituminous thousand tons_  - - 24 
Petroleum refinery products 
              thousand 42-gallon barrels_ 28 42 
Mineral tar and other coal-, petroleum-, or gas- 
 derived crude chemicals 20,956 24,214 
United Kingdom $2,783; West Germany $864. 
United Kingdom $45. 
All from Japan. 
All from Singapore. 
Japan 960; Belgium-Luxembourg 118.~ 
All from Japan 
 
United Kingdom 76.~ 
 
Peru 3,999;? Canada 1,159. 
All from Italy.4 
France 3,181;~ United Kingdom 1,627.~ All from United Kingdom4 
 
 
West Germany 30;~ Italy 18;~ Japan 16. 
All from Canada. 
All from Italy.4 
All from Japan. 
Japan 1,215; Italy 191; France 113. 
Morocco 974 
United States 125; West Germany 50.~ 
Italy 69; Belgium-Luxembourg 69; West Germany 64.~ 
All from United Kingdom. 
Yugoslavia 88. 
 
West Germany $254; Austria $47. 
 
Italy 19,418; Spain 17,060; West Germany 11,502. 
All from Kenya. 
All from Italy.4 
 
All from Canada. 
All from France.4 
 
All from United Kingdom.4 
All from Singapore. 
All from Japan. 
Italy 25;~ Japan 22. 
 
 
Japan 17,152. 
All from United States. 
 
Yugoslavia 16; Italy 11; West Germany 4. West Germany 22,433.~