Ethyl chloroacetate

CAS 105-39-5

U.S. production volumes are classified as confidential business information.

US productionCBI

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

Import value, 2024$72M

Top sourceGermany 40%

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 291540 · basket

EPA reports by year

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

These shares come from HS customs code 291540, which covers 17 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 40%GermanyNL 39%NetherlandsCN 7%ChinaIN 6%IndiaPL 4%Poland

Belgium
Japan
Mexico
Hong Kong

Domestic parents -- activity not disclosed (2)

EPA records name a US company for this chemical but do not disclose whether the company made it here or imported it.

Corteva Agriscience

Newmarket

Why It Matters

Sectors

Agriculture

Downstream UsesNot recorded

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

Used in 2 sectors as 2 functional roles.

•CBI in CBICBI
•Intermediate in Pesticide, Fertilizer, and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing (100%)Processing as a reactant

Vendor Pricing

$0.06/gALFA AESAR

CountryGermany

Pack$142.80 / 2.5 kg

Purity99%

Vendors9 available

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

8 more vendors

Vendor	Country	$/g	Pack	Purity
AK Scientific, Inc.	United States	$1.08	25 g	98%
A2B Chem LLC (1 week)	United States	$1.25	100 g	95%
AA BLOCKS (1 week)	United States	$2.25	100 g	99%
Interbioscreen	Hong Kong	$10.00	10 g	95%
HTS Biochemie Innovationen	Germany	$170.00	5 g	95%
Labotest KG	Germany	$217.80	5000 mg	90%
Otava, Ltd.	Ukraine	$2280.00	50 mg	95%
Otava, Ltd. (2 weeks)	Ukraine	$2724.00	50 mg	95%

Chemical Identity

CAS105-39-5

PubChem CID7751

DTXSIDDTXSID4026715

FormulaC4H7ClO2

Mol. Weight122.55 g/mol

SMILESCCOC(=O)CCl

Data Sources

EPA CompTox (DSSTox) · DTXSID4026715Retrieved 2026-04-06
PubChem · compound 7751Retrieved 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

Ethyl chloroacetate (CAS 105-39-5) https://chemicalindependence.com/chemical/105-39-5/ EPA CompTox (DSSTox): DTXSID4026715. Retrieved 2026-04-06. https://comptox.epa.gov/dashboard/chemical/details/DTXSID4026715 PubChem: 7751. Retrieved 2026-04-06. https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/7751 EPA Chemical Data Reporting: 105-39-5. Reporting year: 2023. https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting EPA Chemical Data Reporting: CAS 105-39-5. Reporting year: 2023. https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting US Census international trade: HS 291540 for CAS 105-39-5. Reporting year: 2024. https://usatrade.census.gov/