Lithium chloride

Drug ingredient

CAS 7447-41-8

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

ClLi42.4 g/mol

no molecular structure to draw

US productionCBI

Confidential Business Information. The EPA withholds this volume because publishing it could reveal the reporting company's trade secrets.

Import value, 2024$99M

Top sourceCanada 27%

At least one company claimed its 2023 production or import volume for this chemical as confidential, so EPA withholds it.

Why supply is unknown

Production is reported production, not a complete census of factories. US production volume is confidential. Production reporting year: 2023. Import value and source-country shares describe a shared customs category, not a separate chemical measurement.

Where It Comes From

Customs basis: HS 282739 · basket

EPA reports by year

2023: US production Confidential · Imports Confidential
2019: US production Confidential · Imports Confidential

These shares come from HS customs code 282739, which covers 44 tracked chemicals in total. They estimate the category's origin mix, not this chemical specifically.

Source Countries

Country of origin for US imports, from Census customs data (2024).

CA 27%CanadaDE 16%GermanyAR 10%ArgentinaGB 10%United KingdomIT 7%Italy

Israel
Taiwan
Lithuania
Singapore
Malaysia
Turkey
Switzerland
Colombia
Mexico
New Zealand
Ireland
Greece
Russia
Australia
Austria
Poland
Denmark

EPA-registered manufacturers (1)

Companies that report making or importing this chemical to the EPA. Registration is US-centric and does not indicate import origin.

Livent Usa

Domestic parents -- activity not disclosed (2)

EPA records name a US company for this chemical but do not disclose whether the company made it here or imported it.

Albemarle

Cirba Solutions

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.

Syensqo Sa · BE Belgium

Basstech International

Delta Carbona

Livent Lithium

Solvay

4 FDA-registered drug labelers

Bestmade Natural Products

BM Private Limited

Hahnemann Laboratories, INC.

Nucleic Products, LLC

Why It Matters

Sectors

HealthMetals & MiningPlastics & RubberConsumer ProductsCore Chemicals

Downstream Uses

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

•Lithium Muriaticum
•BM Lithium chloride (Lith Mur)
•Bestmade Natural Products Lithium Chloride (Lith Mur)
•Excitathyrotem

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.

•Intermediate in All Other Basic Inorganic Chemical ManufacturingProcessing as a reactant
•Viscosity modifiers in Soap, Cleaning Compound, and Toilet Preparation Manufacturing (100%)Processing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
•Intermediate in All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing (8%)Processing as a reactant
•Dehydrating agent (desiccant) in All Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing (47%)Processing as a reactant
•Intermediate in Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing (5%)Processing as a reactant
•Intermediate in All Other Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing (100%)Processing as a reactant
•Ion exchange agent in Other (100%)Processing as a reactant
•Intermediate in Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing (100%)Processing as a reactant

Chemical Identity

CAS7447-41-8

PubChem CID433294

DTXSIDDTXSID2025509

FormulaClLi

Mol. Weight42.4 g/mol

SMILES[Li+].[Cl-]

Data Sources

EPA CompTox (DSSTox) · DTXSID2025509Retrieved 2026-04-06
PubChem · compound 433294Retrieved 2026-04-06
EPA Chemical Data ReportingReporting year: 2023 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
FDA National Drug Code directoryRetrieved 2026-04-07
US Census international tradeReporting year: 2024 · Retrieved 2026-10-04

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Brief citations

Lithium chloride (CAS 7447-41-8) https://chemicalindependence.com/chemical/7447-41-8/ EPA CompTox (DSSTox): DTXSID2025509. Retrieved 2026-04-06. https://comptox.epa.gov/dashboard/chemical/details/DTXSID2025509 PubChem: 433294. Retrieved 2026-04-06. https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/433294 EPA Chemical Data Reporting: 7447-41-8. Reporting year: 2023. https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting FDA National Drug Code directory: CAS 7447-41-8. Retrieved 2026-04-07. https://open.fda.gov/data/ndc/ US Census international trade: HS 282739 for CAS 7447-41-8. Reporting year: 2024. https://usatrade.census.gov/