Cyanamide
No U.S. production. America imports the entire domestic supply.
US ProductionZero
Import Value$154M
Import Volume433.0K lbs
Import Dependency100%
Top SourceGermany 55%
Cyanamide · US import value by year
Where It Comes From
Customs basis: HS 285390 · basket
These shares come from HS customs code 285390, 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).
DE 55%GermanyCA 21%CanadaJP 6%JapanGB 4%United KingdomKR 3%South Korea
- Spain
- Taiwan
- Netherlands
- Philippines
- Sweden
- El Salvador
- Singapore
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Austria
- Israel
- Czech Republic
- Slovakia
- Dominican Republic
- Guyana
- Argentina
- Hong Kong
- Indonesia
- Colombia
EPA-registered importers (1)
Companies that report making or importing this chemical to the EPA. Registration is US-centric and does not indicate import origin.
Alzchem
Why It Matters
Sectors
Agriculture
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 1 sector as 1 functional role.
- •Intermediate in Pesticide, Fertilizer, and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing (100%)Processing as a reactant
Chemical Identity
CAS420-04-2
PubChem CID9864
DTXSIDDTXSID9034490
FormulaCH2N2
Mol. Weight42.04 g/mol
SMILESC(#N)N
Data Sources
DTXSID90344902026-04-06
https://doi.org/10.23645/epacomptox.5588566
Archive: data/sources/comptox/dsstox_identifiers.csv
98642026-04-06
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rest/pug/compound/cid/9864/property/MolecularFormula,MolecularWeight,CanonicalSMILES,InChIKey/JSON
Archive: data/sources/pubchem_properties/9864.json
420-04-22026-04-24
https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting
Archive: data/sources/epa_cdr/2020_cdr.csv
CAS 420-04-22026-04-25
https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting
Archive: data/sources/epa_cdr/2020_cdr_industrial.csv