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The World Coal Trade

In: The Future of Coal

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Coal is a widely-distributed resource which is expensive to transport and is usually of low value. Accordingly, most production is consumed within national boundaries, and in 1981 only 276mt — 10 per cent of world hard coal output — was internationally traded. During that year the main exporters were the USA (102mt), Australia (51mt), South Africa (29.9mt), the USSR (22mt) and Poland (15mt), and the main importers Japan (78.2mt), France (27.4mt), Italy (18.4mt), Canada (14.8mt) and West Germany (11.3mt). Several countries — notably Canada, West Germany and the USSR — were both substantial importers and exporters. In regional terms, coal imports were dominated by Western Europe (113.5mt), Japan-South Korea (88. 1mt) and Eastern Europe (29.4mt).1

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  • Peter James, 1984. "The World Coal Trade," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Future of Coal, edition 0, chapter 6, pages 158-177, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-17383-9_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17383-9_6
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