Octabenzone
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$85M
Top SourceChina 53%
The EPA did not publish how much of this chemical companies made or imported, or marked that amount confidential. Without that volume, ACID cannot calculate import dependency.
Where It Comes From
Customs basis: HS 291450 · basket
These shares come from HS customs code 291450, which covers 14 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 53%ChinaIN 25%IndiaMX 9%MexicoDE 7%GermanyIT 4%Italy
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- South Korea
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Ukraine
- Hong Kong
- Romania
- Austria
- Spain
- Lithuania
EPA-registered importers (16)
Companies that report making or importing this chemical to the EPA. Registration is US-centric and does not indicate import origin.
Azelis S A · LU Luxembourg
Basf Se · DE Germany
Songwon Industrial · KR South Korea
Aalborz Chemical
Alac International
Show all 16
Azelis Us Holding
Basf
Congoleum Acquisitions
Mayzo
Sc Johnson & Son
Si Group Usa (Usaa)
Solvay
Songwon International Americas
The Dow Chemical
Univar Solutions
Valtris
Why It Matters
Sectors
Metals & MiningPlastics & RubberConsumer ProductsPaints & CoatingsCore 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 7 sectors as 4 functional roles.
- •UV stabilizer in Plastics Product Manufacturing (100%)Processing—incorporation into article
- •UV stabilizer in Wholesale and Retail Trade (0%)Processing—repackaging
- •UV stabilizer in Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing (100%)Processing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
- •Adsorbents and absorbents in Plastics Product ManufacturingProcessing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
- •UV stabilizer in All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing (100%)Processing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
- •Antioxidant in Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing (50%)Processing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
- •UV stabilizer in Synthetic Rubber Manufacturing (50%)Processing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
- •Antioxidant in Synthetic Rubber Manufacturing (50%)Processing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
- •Photosensitive chemicals in Paint and Coating Manufacturing (1%)Processing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
- •Photosensitive chemicals in Custom Compounding of Purchased Resins (7%)Processing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
- •Photosensitive chemicals in Plastics Product Manufacturing (69%)Processing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
- •Photosensitive chemicals in Wholesale and Retail Trade (22%)Processing—repackaging
Vendor Pricing
$0.05/gA2B Chem LLC
CountryUnited States
Pack$46.00 / 1 kg
Purity98%
Vendors21 available
Prices reflect listed pack sizes. Small research packs run far above bulk rates.
20 more vendors
| Vendor | Country Supplier country. Where available, shows shipping origin. When the supplier ships from a different country than where they are registered, both are shown. Most suppliers show registration country only. | $/g | Pack | Purity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Chemicals LLC | Hong Kong | $0.05 | 500 g | 99% |
| AA BLOCKS | United States | $0.06 | 1 kg | 98% |
| Angene Chemical | China → Hong Kong | $0.06 | 500 g | 99% |
| Chemscene | United States | $0.07 | 1 kg | — |
| BLD Pharmatech Ltd. | China | $0.07 | 1 kg | 98% |
| BLD Pharmatech GmbH | Germany | $0.07 | 500 g | 98% |
| Fluorochem EU | Germany | $0.16 | 100 g | 95% |
| Combi-Blocks, Inc. | United States | $0.25 | 1 kg | 98% |
| AK Scientific Specialized | United States | $0.28 | 500 g | 97% |
| BLD Pharmatech Co., Limited | United States | $0.32 | 100 g | 98% |
| Ambeed, Inc. | United States | $0.32 | 100 g | 98% |
| MedChemExpress MCE | Sweden | $0.35 | 500 g | 99.91% |
| AK Scientific, Inc. | United States | $0.39 | 500 g | 99% |
| Angene International Limited | United States | $0.67 | 500 g | 99% |
| Sigma-Aldrich (Rush Stock) | Germany | $1.09 | 100 g | 98% |
| Sigma-Aldrich | Germany | $1.09 | 100 g | 98% |
| MedKoo Biosciences, Inc | United States | $2.40 | 100 g | 98% |
| AstaTech (2 weeks) | United States | $3.08 | 25 g | 95% |
| Angene | China → Hong Kong | $4266.67 | 30 mg | 99% |
| TimTec, LLC (back-ordered) | United States | $32000.00 | 15 mg | 94% |
Chemical Identity
CAS1843-05-6
PubChem CID15797
DTXSIDDTXSID9027441
FormulaC21H26O3
Mol. Weight326.4 g/mol
SMILESCCCCCCCCOC1=CC(=C(C=C1)C(=O)C2=CC=CC=C2)O
Data Sources
DTXSID90274412026-04-06
https://doi.org/10.23645/epacomptox.5588566
Archive: data/sources/comptox/dsstox_identifiers.csv
157972026-04-06
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rest/pug/compound/cid/15797/property/MolecularFormula,MolecularWeight,CanonicalSMILES,InChIKey/JSON
Archive: data/sources/pubchem_properties/15797.json
1843-05-62026-04-24
https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting
Archive: data/sources/epa_cdr/2020_cdr.csv
CAS 1843-05-62026-04-25
https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting
Archive: data/sources/epa_cdr/2020_cdr_industrial.csv