StatWatch: U.S. Stone Imports, July 2013

OTHER STONE

VALUE
Total: $32,062,853 (+34.6%)
Sector leader: Brazil @ $13,434,454 (+71.4%)

VOLUME
Total: 34,582 metric tons (+35.7%)
Sector leader: Brazil @ 13,547 metric tons (+66.1%)

Backfill: The historic what’s-left sector of the stone trade is anything but remnant work, with a strong recovery in 2012 and an even stronger one this year. Brazil recovers from an early-year middling performance to take more than a third of the market in value and tonnage.

SLATE

VALUE
Total: $6,170,142 (+11.3%)
Sector leader: China @ $3,480,053 (+8.9%)

Backfill: While this sector is basically supplied by two countries – China and second-place India ($1.4 million, down 11.5% from July 2012) – some of the lesser exporters offer strong support this July, including Brazil ($720,061, +37.2%), the United Kingdom ($158,419, +142.3%) and Spain ($128,462, +201.5%).

StatWatch is a snapshot of U.S. dimensional-stone imports, offering a summary and exclusive Stone Update analysis of data from the U.S. International Trade Commission. Comparisons are made mainly on an annual level to gauge market trends. Analysis is made on import figures of the latest month available.

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