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| TABLE 15 | |||||||||||
| U.S. IMPORTS FOR CONSUMPTION OF CLAY, BY TYPE1 | |||||||||||
| (Thousand metric tons and thousand dollars) | |||||||||||
| 2005 | 2006 | ||||||||||
| Material | Quantity | Value | Quantity | Value | Principal sources, 2006 | ||||||
| China clay or kaolin | 262 | #### | 303 | ###### | Brazil, 97%; United Kingdom, 3%. | ||||||
| Fire clay | (2) | 156 | (2) | ���� 168 | Canada, 57%; Germany, 22%; Austria, 19%. | ||||||
| Decolorizing earths and fuller�s earth | 2 | 286 | 3 | ���� 223 | China, 94%; Germany, 6%. | ||||||
| Bentonite� | 10 | 3,550 | 13 | � 3,100 | Greece, 66%; Mexico, 19%; China 6%. | ||||||
| Common blue clay and other ball clay | 1 | 261 | 1 | ���� 233 | United Kingdom, 95%. | ||||||
| Other clay | 8 | r | 4,660 | 5 | � 3,650 | Canada, 50%; Germany, 18%; Mexico, 17%. | |||||
| Chamotte or Dina's Earth | (2) | 9 | (2) | ������ 18 | Germany, 76%; Austria, 24%. | ||||||
| Artificially activated clay and activated | 17 | r | #### | 21 | ###### | Mexico, 62%; Germany, 21%; Canada, 5%. | |||||
| Total | 301 | r | #### | 346 | ###### | ||||||
| rRevised.� | |||||||||||
| 1Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits. | |||||||||||
| 2Less than � unit. | |||||||||||
| Source: U.S. Census Bureau. | |||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program