Stone Import and Stone Export Statistics - September 2021


Stone World's statistics page is a monthly list comprised of the U.S. granite, marble, slate, and other stone imports and stone exports with countries around the world. It provides the total dollar amount and tonnage of material for each country's transactions within the month. Featured in the January 2022 issue of Stone World.

Statistics | September 2021 Imports

Customers value in dollars does not include insurance or freight.

COUNTRY GRANITE MARBLE* SLATE** OTHER**
  U.S. $ TONS U.S. $ TONS U.S. $ U.S. $ TONS
ARAB EMIRATES 26,841 15
ARGENTINA 145,842
AUSTRALIA 10,674 2 130,237 133 5,230 1
AUSTRIA 90,996 7
BELGIUM 6,821 14 414,023 156 36,149 13
BRAZIL 39,550,113 61,988 360,676 352 43,521 2,013,242 1,484
BULGARIA 25,140 21
CANADA 1,595,247 3,984 993,772 3,179 170,131 3,124,317 169,394
CHINA 9,433,536 20,845 18,458,074 11,655 24,627 1,145,736 2,868
COLOMBIA 6,702 17
CROATIA 55,138 47
CZECH REPUBLIC 2,169
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 358,851 686 118,288 196
ECUADOR 86,058 35
EGYPT 283,123 619
FINLAND 7,364 25 9,974 49
FRANCE 320,848 190
GERMANY 19,788 5 276,523 216
GREECE 787,999 829 21,744
HONDURAS 21,622 15
HONG KONG 8,764 19 17,750 3
INDIA 12,614,167 20,749 6,335,042 4,465 59,432 984,591 2,848
INDONESIA 276,301 200 20,878 4
ISRAEL 269,989 200 18,452 20
ITALY 4,957,858 2,345 12,235,438 4,270 10,881 615,388 936
JORDAN 15,712 35
LEBANON 219,821 52 2,720 20
MALAYSIA 35,553 20 54,600 43
MEXICO 79,530 35 3,779,222 7,503 196,767 820
MOROCCO 445,277 496
NAMIBIA 194,268 142 526,425 426 3,114 1
NEW ZEALAND 13,400 40
NORWAY 202,123 42
PAKISTAN 128,531 46
PERU 307,440 371
PHILIPPINES 50,595 41
POLAND 124,633 42
PORTUGAL 460,849 1,155 1,655,317 1,550 57,326 20
ROMANIA 14,256 1
SINGAPORE 8,717 5
SOUTH AFRICA 211,406 228 31,599 143
SPAIN 3,734,049 8,630 1,069,085 704 517,958 54,989 79
SRI LANKA 6,371 8
SWITZERLAND 14,654 5
SYRIA 229,892 375
TAIWAN 671,643 274 126,025 99
THAILAND 4,239 31 6,686 2
TUNISIA 35,451 23
TURKEY 27,170 7 11,516,471 17,291 131,764 894
UNITED KINGDOM 3,294 2 674,245 41 182,805 6,904 36
VIETNAM 123,527 486 806,343 574 32,639 98
OTHER 24,634 19 40,671 23
TOTAL SEPTEMBER 2021 73,213,618 120,786 64,135,834 57,226 1,179,110 8,938,215 180,065
TOTAL SEPTEMBER 2020 78,817,999 146,842 55,338,565 54,919 1,409,276 8,786,770 223,756

*includes marble, travertine, alabaster and other calcareous stone, **tonnage figures not available, ***includes dolomite, sandstone, quartzite, basalt, porphyry and other non-specific monumental or building stone SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce

Statistics | September 2021 Exports

Customers value in dollars does not include insurance or freight.

COUNTRY GRANITE MARBLE* SLATE** OTHER**
  U.S. $ TONS U.S. $ TONS U.S. $ U.S. $ TONS
ARUBA 7,263 2
BAHAMAS 25,587 9 276,193 1,145 19,478 87
BARBADOS 34,009 16
BELGIUM 14,389 25 6,178 18
BERMUDA 8,800 6
BOLIVIA 7,365 10
BRAZIL 4,179 1
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS 6,923 3
CANADA 1,084,915 2,249 1,959,635 17,818 22,426 3,347,809 9,269
CAYMAN ISLANDS 46,688 20 5,551 2 16,557 3
CHINA 177,055 698 42,356 100
COSTA RICA 3,279 1 11,235 28
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 12,001 10
EGYPT 43,631 49
ESTONIA 6,000 2
FRANCE 77,000 16 7,818 1
GUATEMALA 2,899 5
GUYANA 9,958 6
HONDURAS 24,295 24 5,060 2
INDIA 7,139 26 5,180
ITALY 138,677 445 498,080 386
JAPAN 310,753 1,658
KOREA 33,287 51 18,630 8
LIBERIA 16,000 2
MEXICO 46,514 47 73,360 43 325,010 533
MONTSERRAT 4,219 7
NETHERLANDS 4,736 1
NIGERIA 24,242 2
SAINT KITTS 33,811 9
SAUDI ARABIA 7,628 54 7,000 2
SINGAPORE 24,541 8
SPAIN 16,886 51 14,000 1
TAIWAN 16,588 5 5,343 20
TRINIDAD 75,675 24 9,360 17
TURKEY 5,230 2
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 13,561 16
UNITED KINGDOM 25,326 13 6,590 1
YUGOSLAVIA 600
OTHER 93,329 21 32,508 26 58,048 13
TOTAL SEPTEMBER 2021 1,727,428 3,631 3,284,351 19,782 27,606 4,228,998 11,704
TOTAL SEPTEMBER 2020 2,256,067 4,571 3,164,064 19,918 37,839 3,754,627 11,102

*includes marble, travertine, alabaster and other calcareous stone, **tonnage figures not available, ***includes dolomite, sandstone, quartzite, basalt, porphyry and other non-specific monumental or building stone SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce

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