Energy Information Administration |
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Table Posted: August 19,
2008 |
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Next Update: December 2008 |
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Steam Coal Import Costs |
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(U.S. Dollars
per Metric Ton 1 - Average Unit Value, CIF 2) |
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Country |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
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Belgium |
40.74 |
39.88 |
46.96 |
39.34 |
39.76 |
66.29 |
70.83 |
70.95 |
NA |
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Denmark |
30.29 |
31.67 |
40.78 |
31.65 |
50.27 |
56.29 |
61.84 |
59.15 |
NA |
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Finland |
31.50 |
32.08 |
40.83 |
37.08 |
39.99 |
58.45 |
62.80 |
67.65 |
NA |
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France |
38.59 |
37.21 |
45.36 |
42.59 |
42.63 |
64.08 |
75.23 |
72.92 |
NA |
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Germany |
32.59 |
33.45 |
41.46 |
36.80 |
39.00 |
61.22 |
72.48 |
70.12 |
NA |
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Ireland 3 |
42.93 |
42.85 |
45.25 |
47.88 |
50.08 |
80.90 |
74.91 |
101.78 |
NA |
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Italy |
33.49 |
37.92 |
44.83 |
41.25 |
42.45 |
63.54 |
73.20 |
69.16 |
NA |
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Japan |
35.87 |
34.59 |
37.95 |
36.95 |
34.93 |
51.48 |
62.73 |
63.33 |
NA |
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Netherlands |
30.41 |
29.54 |
40.09 |
35.81 |
37.27 |
55.09 |
68.86 |
68.57 |
NA |
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Spain |
29.64 |
32.03 |
37.30 |
34.80 |
36.73 |
55.89 |
62.94 |
60.66 |
NA |
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United Kingdom |
40.43 |
39.73 |
45.66 |
40.48 |
44.03 |
65.02 |
70.24 |
69.91 |
NA |
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United States |
33.64 |
31.11 |
35.14 |
37.61 |
33.76 |
40.10 |
47.39 |
50.55 |
NA |
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1 To convert U.S. dollars per metric ton to U.S. dollars per
short ton divide by 1.1023 |
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2 CIF (cargo, insurance and freight) refers to cargos for
which the seller pays for the transportation and insurance up to |
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the
port of destination. It is similar to the
terms of an f.o.b. (free on board) sale, except that the seller, as a
service for which |
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he is
compensated, arranges for transportation and insurance. |
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3 On occasion shipments of extremely small quantities of coal
with high values and transportation costs result in high |
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import costs. |
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NA=Not available. |
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Source: Energy Prices & Taxes - Quarterly Statistics, First
Quarter 2008, Part I, Table 13, Paris: International |
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Energy Agency,
2008. The Paris-based International
Energy Agency (IEA) maintains annual and quarterly time |
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series
of this price data that begin with the year 1980 and that also include the
most recent quarterly prices. |
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Information
on purchasing this data online from the IEA is available at: |
http://data.iea.org/ieastore/default.asp |
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