Phosphoric acid, lithium salt (1:3)

Drug ingredient

CAS 10377-52-3

This drug ingredient has classified U.S. production volumes. EPA withholds the number as confidential business information.

Molecular structure of 10377-52-3 — 3 Li⁺

US productionCBI

Confidential Business Information. The EPA withholds this volume because publishing it could reveal the reporting company's trade secrets.

Import value, 2024$21M

Import volumeZero

Top sourceGermany 29%

At least one company claimed its 2023 production or import volume for this chemical as confidential, so EPA withholds it.

Why supply is unknown

Production is reported production, not a complete census of factories. US production volume is confidential. Production reporting year: 2023. Import value and source-country shares describe a shared customs category, not a separate chemical measurement.

Where It Comes From

Customs basis: HS 283529 · basket

EPA reports by year

2023: US production Confidential · Imports Zero
2019: US production Confidential · Imports Zero

These shares come from HS customs code 283529, which covers 24 tracked chemicals in total. They estimate the category's origin mix, not this chemical specifically.

Source Countries

Country of origin for US imports, from Census customs data (2024).

DE 29%GermanyIT 22%ItalyCN 20%ChinaIN 7%IndiaCA 6%Canada

Vietnam
Austria
Ecuador
Taiwan
Brazil
Turkey
Netherlands
South Korea
Ireland
Mexico

EPA-registered manufacturers (2)

Companies that report making or importing this chemical to the EPA. Registration is US-centric and does not indicate import origin.

Agmet

Livent Usa

Why It Matters

Sectors

Core ChemicalsHealth

Downstream Uses

Appears in 1 drug and cosmetic product listings (FDA).

•Lithium Phosphoricum

FDA Shortage Status

Whether any manufacturer currently reports this drug as in shortage on the FDA Drug Shortages database. "Active Shortage" means at least one presentation has status "current."

No FDA shortage records

Industrial Uses

•Catalyst in All Other Basic Inorganic Chemical ManufacturingProcessing as a reactant

Vendor Pricing

$0.08/gAaron Chemicals LLC

CountryHong Kong

Pack$40.00 / 500 g

Purity99%

Vendors14 available

Prices reflect listed pack sizes. Small research packs run far above bulk rates.

13 more vendors

Vendor	Country	$/g	Pack	Purity
Angene Chemical	China → Hong Kong	$0.09	500 g	99%
A2B Chem LLC	United States	$0.09	500 g	95%
BLD Pharmatech GmbH	Germany	$0.12	1 kg	99%
BLD Pharmatech Ltd.	China	$0.12	1 kg	99%
AA BLOCKS	United States	$0.12	500 g	99%
AK Scientific, Inc.	United States	$0.39	250 g	98%
Combi-Blocks, Inc.	United States	$0.48	500 g	98%
Sigma-Aldrich (Rush Stock)	Germany	$0.69	100 g	—
Sigma-Aldrich	Germany	$0.69	100 g	—
Fluorochem UK	United Kingdom	$0.96	100 g	98%
Angene International Limited	United States	$1.65	100 g	99%
TargetMol Chemicals	China → United States	$50.00	1 g	—
Angene	China → Hong Kong	$4266.67	30 mg	99%

Chemical Identity

CAS10377-52-3

PubChem CID165867

DTXSIDDTXSID60889590

FormulaLi3O4P

Mol. Weight115.9 g/mol

SMILES[Li+].[Li+].[Li+].[O-]P(=O)([O-])[O-]

Data Sources

EPA CompTox (DSSTox) · DTXSID60889590Retrieved 2026-04-06
PubChem · compound 165867Retrieved 2026-04-06
EPA Chemical Data ReportingReporting year: 2023 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
EPA Chemical Data ReportingReporting year: 2023 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
US Census international tradeReporting year: 2024 · Retrieved 2026-10-04

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Brief citations

Phosphoric acid, lithium salt (1:3) (CAS 10377-52-3) https://chemicalindependence.com/chemical/10377-52-3/ EPA CompTox (DSSTox): DTXSID60889590. Retrieved 2026-04-06. https://comptox.epa.gov/dashboard/chemical/details/DTXSID60889590 PubChem: 165867. Retrieved 2026-04-06. https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/165867 EPA Chemical Data Reporting: 10377-52-3. Reporting year: 2023. https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting EPA Chemical Data Reporting: CAS 10377-52-3. Reporting year: 2023. https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting US Census international trade: HS 283529 for CAS 10377-52-3. Reporting year: 2024. https://usatrade.census.gov/