Export Coal From Egypt … the United States is a net exporter of coal
The United States exports more coal to other countries than it imports from other countries.
The United states imports and exports steam coal and metallurgical coal. Steam coal can be used for electricity generation and metallurgical coal can be used for steel production
. In 2019, steam coal accounted for 89% of total U.S. coal imports, and metallurgical coal accounted for about 59% of total U.S. coal exports.
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U.S. coal imports
Although the United States produces most of the coal that it consumes, it imports coal to meet some domestic demand. For example, coal-burning power plants along the Gulf Coast and the Atlantic Ocean sometimes find it cheaper to import coal from other countries than to obtain coal from U.S. coal-producing regions.
In 2019, the United States imported about 7 million short tons (MMst) of coal. Coal imports were equal to about 1% of U.S. coal consumption in 2019.
In 2019, the United States imported coal from about 14 countries, and nearly all of U.S. coal imports in 2019 were from five countries.
The top five source countries of U.S. coal imports, the amount imported, and their percent shares of total U.S. coal imports in 2019 were
U.S. coal exports
U.S. coal exports reached a record high of 126 MMst in 2012, equal to 12% of U.S. coal production. In 2019, the United States exported about 93 MMst of coal equal to about 13% of U.S. coal production– to at about 71 countries, and 53% of U.S. coal exports went to five countries.
The top five destinations of U.S. coal exports, the amount exported, and their percent shares of total coal exports in 2019 were
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Export Coal From Egypt
Egypt: Coal exports, thousand short tons: For that indicator, we provide data for Egypt from 1980 to 2017.
The average value for Egypt during that period was 26.43 thousand short tons with a minimum of 0 thousand short tons in 1980 and a maximum of 99.57 thousand short tons in 2009.
The latest value from 2017 is 97.1 thousand short tons. For comparison, the world average in 2017 based on 192 countries is 7897.55 thousand short tons. See the global rankings for that indicator or use the country comparator to compare trends over time.
Top 15 countries that exported the highest Export Coal 2019
- Australia: US$44.4 billion (37.5% of total coal exports)
- Indonesia: $21.5 billion (18.2%)
- Russia: $16 billion (13.5%)
- United States: $9.8 billion (8.3%)
- Colombia: $5.2 billion (4.4%)
- Canada: $5.2 billion (4.4%)
- South Africa: $4.8 billion (4.1%)
- Netherlands: $3.2 billion (2.7%)
- Mongolia: $3.1 billion (2.6%)
- Mozambique: $1 billion (0.9%)
- China: $932.8 million (0.8%)
- Poland: $622.8 million (0.5%)
- Philippines: $460.6 million (0.4%)
- Kazakhstan: $449.7 million (0.4%)
- Belgium: $217.3 million (0.2%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 98.3% of global coal exports in 2019.
The listed 15 countries shipped 98.8% of global coal exports in 2019 by value.
Among the top exporters, the fastest-growing coal exporters since 2015 were: Mozambique (up 36,789%), Mongolia (up 453.7%), Philippines (up 211.4%) and Canada (up 91.1%).
Two top suppliers posted declines in their exported coal sales namely Poland (down -15%) and Belgium (down -2.3%).
