The United Nations (UN) maintains a database of annual
commodity exports and imports for most, if not all, countries. The database includes the trade value and the
net weight of the commodity. Click here to
go to this UN database where you can search on a country and a commodity.
By clicking here, you will be taken to a list identifying
the commodities covered by the database.
The list includes commodity categories of interest to the chemical
enterprise such as inorganic chemicals, organic chemicals, plastics, and
fertilizers.
Using this database, I was able to fairly quickly compare
2015 zinc exports for ten countries. The
data I found is shown in this table:
|
2015
Zinc exports, not alloyed, unwrought, greater than 99% pure
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country
|
weight exported in
metric tons
|
trade value of
exports, USD
|
trade value per ton
|
|
Australia
|
398,392
|
$
790,860,075
|
$
1,985.13
|
|
Canada
|
326,153
|
$
701,990,454
|
$
2,152.33
|
|
India
|
291,724
|
$
628,283,369
|
$
2,153.69
|
|
China
|
94,936
|
$
210,412,497
|
$
2,216.36
|
|
Brazil
|
45,392
|
$
90,554,533
|
$
1,994.95
|
|
Russia
|
28,023
|
$
59,187,414
|
$
2,112.11
|
|
United States
|
22,578
|
$
51,279,262
|
$
2,271.19
|
|
Indonesia
|
253
|
$ 342,555
|
$
1,353.97
|
|
Chile
|
145
|
$ 299,180
|
$
2,059.35
|
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South Africa
|
30
|
$ 83,282
|
$
2,776.07
|
|
|
|
average
|
$
2,107.52
|
From the data in the table, we can separate countries by the
amount of zinc (not alloyed, unwrought, greater than 99% pure) they exported
into three ranges: large (Australia, Canada, and India); moderate (Brazil,
China, Russia, and the United States); and immaterial (Chile, Indonesia, and
South America). We also see from the
table the trade values per metric ton that each country received for its zinc
exports.
