Chinese exports of carbon black to US jump by 30 times

ERJ staff report (DS)

Washington DC - A report on the usually-reliable Notch Consulting website says that Chinese imports of carbon black (HTS 2803000010) into the United States increased to 22,344 tonnes in 2011 from 701 tonnes in 2010, a 30-fold increase in just one year.

Notch said the official data comes from the US ITC (HTS 2803000010).

China is now the second -largest supplier of Carbon black to the US after Canada, which imported 101,731 tonnes of carbon black into the US in 2011, down nearly 9 percent from 111,713 tonnes in 2010..

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