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| TABLE 2 | ||||||||||
| U.S. FOREIGN TRADE IN THORIUM AND THORIUM-BEARING MATERIALS1 | ||||||||||
| ���� | 2005 | 2006 | ||||||||
| Quantity | Quantity | |||||||||
| (kilograms) | Value | (kilograms) | Value | Principal destinations/sources and quantities, | ||||||
| Exports, thorium compounds | 737 | ###### | 1,090 | ####### | Singapore 411; United Kingdom 287; Japan | |||||
| Australia 104. | ||||||||||
| Imports: | ||||||||||
| Thorium ore, monazite concentra | -- | -- | 10,000 | 4,800 | Canada 10,000. | |||||
| Compounds | 4,930 | 145,000 | 48,600 | ####### | United Kingdom 43,900; France 4,710. | |||||
| -- Zero. | ||||||||||
| 1Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits. | ||||||||||
| Source: U.S. Census Bureau. | ||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program