Table 1.--Salient tin statistics (Metric tons unless otherwise specified) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Production Imports for consumption ------------------------------ ----------------------- Ore Exports Consump- Price Year Mine Smelter Secondary Metal (tin and tion (dollars World mine content) reexports totals per pound)1/ production ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1970----- W -- 20,322 51,366 -- 4,073 75,022 1.74 232,167 1971----- W 4,064 20,419 47,693 -- 1,850 71,073 1.67 235,959 1972----- W 4,267 20,504 53,292 -- 871 70,312 1.78 244,183 1973----- W 4,877 20,806 46,535 4,875 2,581 75,838 2.28 237,847 1974----- W 6,096 19,200 40,238 5,971 6,003 65,780 3.96 232,880 1975----- W 6,500 15,856 44,366 6,415 1,467 55,800 3.40 222,283 1976----- W 5,733 16,446 45,055 5,733 540 62,928 3.49 218,412 1977----- W 6,724 18,503 47,774 6,724 545 60,732 4.99 230,694 1978----- W 5,900 21,100 46,776 3,873 2/498 61,531 5.87 241,108 1979----- W 4,600 21,493 48,355 4,529 2/568 62,465 7.11 245,294 1980----- W 3,000 18,638 45,982 840 2/595 56,362 7.73 244,726 1981----- W 2,000 15,438 45,874 232 2/2,361 54,373 6.48 238,008 1982----- W 3,500 14,293 27,939 1,961 2/5,769 46,295 5.87 219,463 1983----- W 2,500 14,205 34,048 969 2/1,340 45,547 6.01 196,942 1984----- W 4,000 15,417 41,224 3,272 2/1,429 48,315 5.68 188,183 1985----- W 4,302 14,109 33,830 1,616 2/1,478 48,669 3/5.26 180,725 1986----- W 4,347 14,850 35,768 3,936 2/1,547 43,524 3/2.94 172,400 1987----- W 5,280 16,159 41,150 2,953 2/1,318 44,219 3.09 180,271 1988----- W 2,045 e/15,275 43,493 2,837 2/1,209 45,601 3.31 212,905 1989----- W 1,569 e/14,340 33,988 216 2/904 46,371 3.97 233,777 1990----- W W e/17,275 33,810 -- 2/658 44,363 2.88 219,412 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ e/Estimated. W Withheld to avoid disclosing company proprietary data. 1/New York dealer price. 2/Excluding reexports. 3/Prices quoted for 10 months only because of the funds used by the International Tin Council to support the tin price being exhausted.