Potassium tetrafluoroborate
No U.S. production. America imports the entire domestic supply.
US ProductionZero
Import Value$87M
Import Volume3.8M lbs
Import Dependency100%
Top SourceChina 71%
Potassium tetrafluoroborate · US import value by year
Where It Comes From
Customs basis: HS 282690 · basket
These shares come from HS customs code 282690, which covers 13 chemicals in total. They estimate the bucket's origin mix, not this chemical specifically.
Source Countries
Country of origin for US imports, from Census customs data (2023).
CN 71%ChinaKR 12%South KoreaJP 5%JapanDE 4%GermanyBE 3%Belgium
- Denmark
- Mexico
- Taiwan
- Spain
- Canada
- Bulgaria
- Vietnam
- Poland
- Italy
- Brazil
- United Kingdom
- Switzerland
EPA-registered importers (5)
Companies that report making or importing this chemical to the EPA. Registration is US-centric and does not indicate import origin.
Amg Advance Metallurgical Group N V · NL Netherlands
Amg Aluminum North America
Basstech International
Concordia Chemical
Royale Pigments And Chemicals
Why It Matters
Sectors
ConstructionMetals & MiningCore Chemicals
Downstream UsesNo data available
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 1 functional role.
- •Fillers in All Other Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing (90%)Processing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
- •Fillers in Non-metallic Mineral Product Manufacturing (includes clay, glass, cement, concrete, lime, gypsum, and other non-metallic mineral product manufacturing) (3%)Processing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
Chemical Identity
CAS14075-53-7
PubChem CID518872
DTXSIDDTXSID6037015
FormulaBF4K
Mol. Weight125.91 g/mol
SMILES[B-](F)(F)(F)F.[K+]
Data Sources
DTXSID60370152026-04-06
https://doi.org/10.23645/epacomptox.5588566
Archive: data/sources/comptox/dsstox_identifiers.csv
5188722026-04-06
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rest/pug/compound/cid/518872/property/MolecularFormula,MolecularWeight,CanonicalSMILES,InChIKey/JSON
Archive: data/sources/pubchem_properties/518872.json
14075-53-72026-04-24
https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting
Archive: data/sources/epa_cdr/2020_cdr.csv
CAS 14075-53-72026-04-25
https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting
Archive: data/sources/epa_cdr/2020_cdr_industrial.csv