Table 2. 3. 2 : Baryte
Imports
SITC Rev.3 : 278.92
HS : 25.11

  Quantity (thousand tons, actual weight) Value (million US $)
  1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997
WORLD 1742.4 2173.4 2422.2 2494.1 3043.3 3813.7 143.6 150.1 165.6 187.8 221.0 263.8
DEVELOPED MARKET ECONOMY COUNTRIES 1177.6 1550.2 1809.0 1892.6 2424.6 3107.3 90.8 95.8 111.5 127.2 159.1 194.3
AMERICA 365.6 819.0 1089.1 1059.8 1553.7 2266.7 18.4 35.6 48.7 53.9 83.4 124.5
Canada 11.9 15.0 14.8 16.7 15.6 21.9 1.1 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.4 2.2
United States 353.7 804.0 1074.3 1043.1 1538.1 2244.8 17.3 34.3 47.4 52.6 82.0 122.3
EUROPE 703.7 596.5 603.3 682.3 704.4 713.1 64.9 51.5 55.3 62.1 63.6 59.3
European Union 15 597.4 467.6 497.8 571.3 560.2 551.4 53.6 41.2 47.4 55.9 55.8 50.7
Austria 4.7 2.0 3.3 1.4 3.0 2.9 1.3 0.7 1.0 0.5 0.9 0.8
Belgium-Luxembourg 13.0 13.7 10.8 14.1 17.2 12.4 2.4 2.5 1.9 2.8 3.0 2.4
Denmark 26.8 5.2 1.1 1.6 5.0 16.0 2.6 0.7 0.4 0.5 0.8 1.9
Finland 1.7 1.4 1.5 1.7 1.7 2.1 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.6
France 18.7 31.0 26.6 26.0 17.6 24.9 4.1 4.1 4.5 5.2 5.1 4.2
Germany 200.7 96.1 185.3 223.0 203.6 230.7 17.3 9.2 16.1 19.7 18.2 18.3
Greece 0.5 0.2 0.5 1.3 4.4 2.0 0.2 0.5 0.2 0.3 0.7 0.4
Ireland 1.6 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.7 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
Italy 55.3 35.6 31.8 52.9 67.1 74.8 5.0 2.8 2.9 4.6 6.6 6.5
Netherlands 81.9 109.6 74.5 109.2 136.9 136.6 4.8 5.2 5.5 6.1 8.5 8.0
Portugal 1.6 0.9 0.9 1.1 5.1 1.2 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.7 0.4
Spain 17.1 12.8 20.4 24.7 10.4 15.0 2.0 2.0 3.0 4.3 2.2 3.4
Sweden 4.5 4.1 4.9 3.1 2.7 4.8 1.0 0.8 1.0 0.9 1.0 1.0
United Kingdom 169.3 154.2 135.5 110.5 84.9 27.3 11.7 11.9 9.9 9.8 7.3 2.6
Other Europe 106.3 128.9 105.5 111.0 144.2 161.7 11.3 10.3 7.9 6.2 7.8 8.6
Norway 104.0 127.2 102.8 108.7 142.2 158.0 10.7 9.9 7.2 5.5 7.2 7.9
Switzerland 2.3 1.7 2.7 2.3 2.0 3.7 0.6 0.4 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.7
SOUTH AFRICA 1.3 3.0 1.7 2.2 1.9 2.0 0.3 0.6 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4
ASIA 94.7 116.8 86.1 132.1 142.6 117.4 6.1 7.0 5.2 8.8 10.0 8.6
Israel 2.0 0.5 1.0 2.0 3.0 3.0 0.4 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.6
Japan 92.7 116.3 85.1 130.1 139.6 114.4 5.7 6.9 5.0 8.4 9.4 8.0
OCEANIA 12.3 14.9 28.8 16.2 22.0 8.1 1.1 1.1 2.0 2.0 1.7 1.5
Australia 10.0 14.0 27.9 15.3 21.2 7.3 0.6 0.9 1.8 1.8 1.5 1.3
New Zealand 2.3 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.5 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES 410.3 434.3 454.5 468.5 555.3 641.1 43.1 41.1 41.7 49.0 54.3 61.6
AMERICA 181.7 208.7 202.0 196.1 217.8 287.4 16.8 16.9 16.7 17.0 17.1 25.4
Argentina 0.8 0.3 3.2 10.3 4.3 8.8 0.1 0.1 0.4 1.1 0.5 1.1
Brazil 0.2 1.2 0.2 0.2 0.4 1.0 0.1 1.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.5
Chile 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.7 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2
Colombia 30.3 12.9 20.9 55.3 46.2 47.1 3.0 1.7 2.0 3.2 2.8 2.7
Cuba 5.0 5.0 5.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.5 0.5 0.5
Ecuador 0.6 2.3 4.7 1.2 5.3 3.4 0.1 0.3 0.6 0.1 0.8 0.3
Mexico 15.9 54.5 30.7 7.8 10.8 68.4 1.0 4.0 2.3 1.0 1.2 7.9
Peru 0.0 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.9 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.3
Trinidad and Tobago 5.5 8.5 6.7 20.7 30.1 33.9 0.7 1.1 1.3 2.1 2.3 3.1
Uruguay 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1
Venezuela 123.2 123.5 130.1 97.2 117.3 120.0 11.0 7.7 9.0 8.8 8.6 8.7
AFRICA 31.2 36.8 31.3 45.5 42.6 64.4 5.2 5.4 4.2 5.8 6.1 7.6
North Africa 6.6 12.7 7.1 19.6 15.9 39.1 1.9 2.1 1.0 2.7 3.0 4.6
Algeria 6.2 8.6 5.0 18.1 11.5 37.8 1.7 1.6 0.6 2.2 2.0 4.2
Egypt 0.1 0.4 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.1
Morocco 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Tunisia 0.3 3.7 1.9 1.1 3.8 1.0 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.7 0.2
Sub-Saharan Africa 24.6 24.1 24.2 25.9 26.7 25.3 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.0
Cameroon 2.5 2.0 2.0 3.2 4.4 3.0 0.7 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.4
Congo 2.0 1.9 2.7 3.0 3.0 3.0 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4
Gabon 2.0 2.1 1.4 1.7 1.3 1.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2
Ghana 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5
Nigeria 15.0 15.0 15.0 15.0 15.0 15.0 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5
Reunion 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0
ASIA 186.1 188.1 220.1 225.4 293.9 287.7 19.2 18.5 20.3 25.9 30.6 28.1
West Asia 54.9 68.4 65.9 69.5 56.7 57.7 7.3 7.0 6.4 9.0 6.0 6.2
Jordan 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0
Kuwait 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
Oman 0.6 8.2 8.4 8.9 0.1 0.9 0.1 0.9 0.5 1.0 0.1 0.2
Saudi Arabia 2.8 2.1 1.0 5.1 1.0 1.0 2.2 0.4 0.4 2.6 0.4 0.4
Syrian Arab Republic 15.5 16.0 16.0 15.0 15.0 15.0 1.5 1.6 1.6 1.5 1.5 1.5
Turkey 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.5 0.6 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.3
United Arab Emirates 35.0 41.7 40.0 40.0 40.0 40.0 3.2 4.0 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.7
Other Asia 131.2 119.7 154.2 155.9 237.2 230.0 11.9 11.5 13.9 16.9 24.6 21.9
Brunei Darussalam 1.7 0.1 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1
China 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.6 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1
Hong Kong, China 2.3 1.9 2.8 1.2 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1
Indonesia 41.4 42.0 56.9 40.4 71.2 85.6 3.1 3.0 3.6 3.4 6.6 6.7
Korea, Republic of 40.6 39.8 54.0 61.0 85.2 63.7 2.7 2.8 3.6 4.4 6.4 4.9
Malaysia 1.5 2.8 3.6 11.3 50.5 55.0 0.3 0.5 0.7 1.6 7.1 7.6
Pakistan 0.0 0.0 2.3 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0
Philippines 1.2 1.6 4.3 1.4 1.7 0.9 0.2 0.3 0.8 0.3 0.3 0.2
Singapore 20.9 17.9 14.2 23.9 11.8 7.8 3.7 3.4 3.2 5.4 2.6 1.0
Taiwan, Province of China 11.4 6.7 8.2 9.8 7.0 5.5 0.9 0.8 0.9 1.2 1.0 0.8
Thailand 10.2 6.9 7.3 6.2 9.3 11.1 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.4
EUROPE 11.3 0.7 1.1 1.5 1.0 1.6 1.9 0.3 0.5 0.3 0.5 0.5
Croatia 4.5 0.1 0.4 0.1 0.2 0.6 0.9 0.1 0.3 0.0 0.1 0.1
Slovenia 6.8 0.6 0.7 1.4 0.8 1.0 1.0 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.4
COUNTRIES IN EASTERN EUROPE 154.5 188.9 158.7 133.0 63.4 65.3 9.7 13.2 12.4 11.6 7.6 7.9
Albania 3.0 5.0 5.0 4.0 0.4 1.7 0.7 1.1 1.1 0.8 0.1 0.5
Czech Republic - 31.8 30.6 40.0 15.1 10.9 - 2.2 2.4 3.4 2.0 1.4
Hungary 2.0 2.6 2.5 3.0 3.0 2.7 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6
Poland 7.2 4.1 3.9 4.2 6.9 6.3 0.3 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.3 1.3
Romania 62.3 20.4 21.7 21.8 18.4 19.0 3.2 1.2 1.7 2.0 1.6 1.6
Russian Federation 80.0 125.0 95.0 60.0 19.4 24.4 5.0 7.8 6.0 4.0 1.9 2.4
Slovakia 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1


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