Vegetable oils
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$270M
Top SourceCanada 42%
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 151790 · exact
Source Countries
Country of origin for US imports, from Census customs data (2023).
CA 42%CanadaMX 24%MexicoMY 7%MalaysiaES 6%SpainDE 4%Germany
- Switzerland
- Philippines
- Haiti
- China
- Portugal
- Turkey
- Japan
- South Korea
- New Zealand
- Jordan
- United Kingdom
- Honduras
- United Arab Emirates
- Taiwan
- Greece
- Egypt
- Bangladesh
- Hong Kong
- Dominican Republic
- Australia
- Israel
- Poland
- Yemen
- Ukraine
- Tunisia
- Pakistan
- Peru
- South Africa
- Barbados
- Denmark
- Oman
- Brazil
- Kenya
- Croatia
- Iraq
- Saudi Arabia
- Algeria
EPA-registered manufacturers (3)
Companies that report making or importing this chemical to the EPA. Registration is US-centric and does not indicate import origin.
Archer Daniels Midland
Bunge North America
Cargill
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.
ExxonMobil
Why It Matters
Sectors
Energy
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.
- •Lubricants and lubricant additives in Petroleum Lubricating Oil and Grease Manufacturing (100%)Processing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
Chemical Identity
CAS68956-68-3
PubChem CIDNo data available
DTXSIDDTXSID5057595
FormulaNo data available
Mol. WeightNo data available
SMILESNo data available
Data Sources
DTXSID50575952026-04-06
https://doi.org/10.23645/epacomptox.5588566
Archive: data/sources/comptox/dsstox_identifiers.csv
68956-68-32026-04-24
https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting
Archive: data/sources/epa_cdr/2020_cdr.csv
CAS 68956-68-32026-04-25
https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting
Archive: data/sources/epa_cdr/2020_cdr_industrial.csv