Mid-Year 2011 U.S. Stone Imports

Brazil, last year’s leader in the omnibus stone sector, took the biggest fall, with a 50.6-percent decline to 25,079 metric tons. India took over the top spot with 31,495 metric tons, slipping 19.5 percent from last June; Canada’s 7,430 metric tons (down 28.9 percent) placed the country fourth.

Data for this article, and for accompanying charts, is derived from information reported by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. International Trade Commission. All analysis is made using comparable data. “Worked” data excludes crude/roughly trimmed stone comprised of marble/travertine, granite or other categories where volume measurement is in cubic meters instead of metric tons. Marble/travertine crude/roughly trimmed stone data is not included in value summaries, since the two stones are not delineated in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (2002) (Revision 2).

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