The World Coal Trade

Peter James

Chapter 6 in The Future of Coal, 1984, pp 158-177 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract 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

Keywords: Coal Production; Coke Coal; Hard Coal; National Output; Recoverable Reserve (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17383-9_6

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