U.S. Energy Information Administration Quarterly Coal Report, October - December 2023

Table 7. U.S. coal exports

(short tons)

Year to date

Continent and country

of destination

October - December

2023

July - September

2023

October - December

2022 2023 2022

Percent

change

North America Total 1,929,015 1,630,015 1,868,036 6,452,522 6,224,543 3.7

Canada* 1,591,355 1,365,430 1,446,926 4,969,490 4,315,546 15.2

Dominican Republic 323,749 206,640 246,349 1,092,770 605,813 80.4

Guatemala 44 205 36,444 55,197 437,856 -87.4

Honduras - 44,291 55,116 135,783 245,836 -44.8

Jamaica - - - 3 71,748 -100.0

Mexico 13,584 13,354 83,091 138,172 404,231 -65.8

Trinidad and Tobago 161 43 33 60,889 128,615 -52.7

Other** 122 52 77 218 14,898 -98.5

South America Total 1,757,373 1,941,141 1,493,190 8,244,583 7,619,577 8.2

Argentina 44,554 188,951 12 506,960 318,201 59.3

Brazil 1,711,557 1,751,056 1,492,597 7,535,883 6,426,393 17.3

Chile 228 544 107 162,373 610,312 -73.4

Ecuador 547 45 - 36,978 119,199 -69.0

Peru 169 330 - 833 144,633 -99.4

Other** 318 215 474 1,556 839 85.5

Europe Total 6,316,912 6,127,258 9,225,360 27,565,702 33,575,304 -17.9

Austria 360,805 314,675 192,278 1,381,303 1,119,392 23.4

Belgium 181,887 295,012 207,469 1,082,191 633,355 70.9

Bosnia and Herzegovina - - - - 65,477 -

Croatia 237,315 418,628 187,035 1,265,896 1,335,041 -5.2

Denmark (Except

Greenland)

- - - 67,845 110,839 -38.8

Finland 213,861 167,694 297,173 623,921 816,036 -23.5

France 295,571 338,051 789,410 1,471,477 1,827,364 -19.5

Germany, Federal

Republic of

725,082 640,529 1,417,577 3,369,611 4,202,931 -19.8

Italy 359,189 248,162 313,170 1,768,249 1,426,263 24.0

Netherlands 2,307,118 2,264,865 3,757,599 9,750,484 12,170,282 -19.9

Norway 21,659 22,354 28,372 77,854 81,714 -4.7

Poland 415,139 518,750 697,797 1,931,870 2,533,605 -23.8

Romania - - 40,273 61,295 354,709 -82.7

Slovakia - - - - 62,233 -

Slovenia - - - - 121,086 -

Spain 248,440 278,135 251,344 1,174,732 1,115,117 5.3

Sweden 175,446 114,316 177,440 670,933 656,474 2.2

Turkey 601,049 389,039 242,665 1,738,277 1,903,969 -8.7

Ukraine 84,878 - - 128,970 422,859 -69.5

United Kingdom 89,450 90,059 590,544 788,952 2,531,559 -68.8

Other** 23 26,989 35,214 211,842 84,999 149.2

Asia Total 13,986,219 13,395,860 7,618,134 50,043,289 32,887,848 52.2

China 1,543,569 1,762,735 476,739 6,446,371 2,915,102 121.1

India 7,779,336 6,229,319 3,909,572 24,799,186 16,251,656 52.6

Indonesia 264,338 274,560 104 848,856 156,156 443.6

Japan 2,691,194 2,886,043 2,289,284 9,931,526 8,074,561 23.0

Pakistan - - - - 64,506 -

Singapore 190,394 81,542 103,066 871,064 103,090 NM

South Korea (Republic of

Korea)

942,117 1,800,342 837,346 5,961,564 5,226,136 14.1

Vietnam 149,665 115,325 2 372,164 87,387 325.9

Other** 425,606 245,994 2,021 812,558 9,254 NM

Australia and Oceania Total 342 535 - 877 591 48.4

Other** 342 535 - 877 591 48.4

Africa Total 2,190,560 1,792,550 802,743 7,484,340 5,647,873 32.5

Egypt 792,026 628,122 629,277 3,280,732 3,035,514 8.1

Morocco 1,398,250 1,084,262 146,683 3,911,040 2,323,353 68.3

South Africa 282 80,113 26,738 240,254 241,427 -0.5
U.S. Energy Information Administration Quarterly Coal Report, October - December 2023

Year to date

Continent and country

of destination

October - December

2023

July - September

2023

October - December

2022 2023 2022

Percent

change

Other** 2 53 45 52,314 47,579 10.0

Total 26,180,421 24,887,359 21,007,463 99,791,313 85,955,736 16.1

* Based on the U.S. - Canada Free Trade Agreement; as of January 1990, the U.S. Department of Commerce began reporting statistics on U.S. exports to Canada based on

information on imports provided monthly by the Canadian government.

** Includes countries with coal exports less than or equal to 50,000 short tons in 2022.

- = No data reported.

NM = Not meaningful due to changes of 500 percent or more.

Note: Total may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding.

Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 'Monthly Report EM 545.'