Salient Tin Statistics

TABLE 1
SALIENT TIN STATISTICS¹

		2001		2002		2003		2004		2005
United States:
Production, secondary, contained tin^e	metric tons	6,700		6,760		5,500		5,240	^r	11,800
Exports, refined tin	do.	4,350		2,940		3,690		3,650		4,330
Imports for consumption, refined tin	do.	37,500		42,200		37,100		47,600		37,500
Consumption, contained tin:
Primary	do.	34,200		34,000		32,900		36,700	^r	32,200
Secondary	do.	7,630		5,830		4,510		7,990	^r	9,170
S	do.	9,620		8,930	^r	7,960		8,980	^r	8,270
Prices, average, contained tin:
New York, NY market	cents per pound	211.48		194.75		232.36		409.37		360.93
Platts Metals Week composite	do.	314.88		291.97		339.78		547.30		483.04
London, United Kingdom	do.	203.00		184.00		222.00		385.00		334.00
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	do.	200.77		184.35		221.67		385.11		333.55
World, production, contained tin:
Mine	metric tons	246,000	^r	233,000	^r	258,000	^r	298,000	^r	292,000	^e
Smelter:
Primary	do.	272,000	^r	266,000	^r	268,000	^r	297,000	^r	329,000	^e
Secondary	do.	16,200		14,200		11,900		11,700	^r	20,200	^e
Undifferentiated	do.	--		70	^{r, e}	200	^r	200	^{r, e}	200	^e
^eEstimated. ^rRevised.� -- Zero.
¹Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits, except prices.