Carbon tetrachloride

Drug ingredient

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

Molecular structure of 56-23-5
US ProductionCBI
Import Value$13M
Top SourceItaly 74%

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 290314 · exact

Source Countries
IT 74%ItalyIN 13%IndiaDE 13%Germany
EPA-registered manufacturers (5)
China National Chemical · CN China
Corteva
Occidental Petroleum
Olin
Syngenta Crop Protection Llc.
3 FDA-registered drug labelers
Apex Energetics Inc.
Nutritional Specialties, Inc.
Professional Complementary Health Formulas

Why It Matters

Sectors
Core ChemicalsHealthAgriculture
Downstream Uses

Appears in 4 drug and cosmetic product listings (FDA).

  • •Industriox
  • •Simple Chlorinated Combination 9315
  • •Industriox 6011
  • •N02 Petrochem
FDA Shortage Status
No FDA shortage records

Industrial Uses

Used in 1 sector as 2 functional roles.

  • •Intermediate in All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing (100%)Use—non-incorporative activities
  • •Process regulators in All Other Basic Organic Chemical ManufacturingProcessing as a reactant

Chemical Identity

CAS56-23-5
PubChem CID5943
DTXSIDDTXSID8020250
FormulaCCl4
Mol. Weight153.8 g/mol
SMILESC(Cl)(Cl)(Cl)Cl

Data Sources

DTXSID80202502026-04-06

https://doi.org/10.23645/epacomptox.5588566

Archive: data/sources/comptox/dsstox_identifiers.csv

59432026-04-06

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rest/pug/compound/cid/5943/property/MolecularFormula,MolecularWeight,CanonicalSMILES,InChIKey/JSON

Archive: data/sources/pubchem_properties/5943.json

56-23-52026-04-24

https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting

Archive: data/sources/epa_cdr/2020_cdr.csv

CAS 56-23-52026-04-07

https://open.fda.gov/data/ndc/

Archive: data/sources/fda/ndc/ndc.json

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