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| TABLE 14 | |||||||||||||
| U.S. EXPORTS OF CONSTRUCTION SAND AND GRAVEL IN 2007, BY COUNTRY1 | |||||||||||||
| (Thousand metric tons and thousand dollars) | |||||||||||||
| Sand | Gravel | ||||||||||||
| Value, | Value, | ||||||||||||
| Country or Territory | Quantity� | f.a.s.2 | Quantity� | f.a.s.2 | |||||||||
| North America: | |||||||||||||
| Canada | 32 | 3,330 | 178 | 2,450 | |||||||||
| Dominican Republic | (3) | 34 | 1 | 56 | |||||||||
| Guatemala | (3) | 92 | -- | -- | |||||||||
| Mexico | 4 | 872 | 1 | 33 | |||||||||
| Other4 | 22 | 1,420 | 69 | 2,640 | |||||||||
| Total | 61 | 5,750 | 249 | 5,180 | |||||||||
| South America: | |||||||||||||
| Brazil | 3 | 1,900 | -- | -- | |||||||||
| Colombia | 1 | 424 | -- | -- | |||||||||
| Peru | 1 | 241 | -- | -- | |||||||||
| Venezuela | 1 | 369 | (3) | 7 | |||||||||
| Other5 | 1 | 939 | (3) | 81 | |||||||||
| �Total | 7 | 3,870 | 1 | 88 | |||||||||
| Europe: | |||||||||||||
| Belgium | (3) | 124 | -- | -- | |||||||||
| Denmark | (3) | 4 | -- | -- | |||||||||
| Finland | (3) | 50 | 1 | 34 | |||||||||
| France | (3) | 49 | (3) | 11 | |||||||||
| Germany | 2 | 1,090 | -- | -- | |||||||||
| Sweden | 1 | 286 | 1 | 20 | |||||||||
| United Kingdom | 1 | 648 | 2 | 150 | |||||||||
| Other6 | 2 | 1,820 | (3) | 12 | |||||||||
| Total | 9 | 4,080 | 4 | 226 | |||||||||
| Asia: | |||||||||||||
| China | (3) | 268 | -- | -- | |||||||||
| Japan | 1 | 248 | 1 | 49 | |||||||||
| Korea, Republic of | 1 | 678 | -- | -- | |||||||||
| Taiwan | 22 | 3,970 | (3) | 5 | |||||||||
| Other7 | 2 | 1,930 | (3) | 4 | |||||||||
| Total | 27 | 7,100 | 1 | 58 | |||||||||
| Oceania, other8 | (3) | 63 | 2 | 64 | |||||||||
| Middle East, other9 | 1 | 586 | 2 | 119 | |||||||||
| Africa, other10 | 2 | 1,560 | -- | -- | |||||||||
| Grand total | 107 | 23,000 | 258 | 5,740 | |||||||||
| -- Zero. | |||||||||||||
| 1Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits; may not add to totals shown. | |||||||||||||
| 2Free alongside ship. Value of material at U.S. port of export; based on transaction price, | |||||||||||||
| including all charges incurred in placing material alongside ship. | |||||||||||||
| 3Less than � unit. | |||||||||||||
| 4Includes Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, The Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British | |||||||||||||
| Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Dominica, El Salvador, Grenada, Honduras, | |||||||||||||
| the Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent,� | |||||||||||||
| Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos Islands. | |||||||||||||
| 5Includes Chile, Ecuador, and Uruguay. | |||||||||||||
| 6Includes Austria, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Lativa, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania,� | |||||||||||||
| Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, and Turkey. | |||||||||||||
| 7Includes Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore,� | |||||||||||||
| and Thailand. | |||||||||||||
| 8Includes Australia and New Zealand.�� | |||||||||||||
| 9Includes Israel, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. | |||||||||||||
| 10Includes Algeria, Angola, Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Libya, the Republic of� | |||||||||||||
| South Africa, and Uganda. | |||||||||||||
| Source: U.S. Census Bureau. | |||||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program