Lithium chloride

Drug ingredient

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

Molecular structure of 7447-41-8
US ProductionCBI
Import Value$99M
Top SourceCanada 27%

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 282739 · basket

These shares come from HS customs code 282739, which covers 22 chemicals in total. They estimate the bucket's origin mix, not this chemical specifically.

Source Countries
CA 27%CanadaDE 16%GermanyAR 10%ArgentinaGB 10%United KingdomIT 7%Italy
EPA-registered manufacturers (1)
Fmc Lithium Usa
EPA-registered importers (3)
Basstech International
Fmc Lithium Usa
Solvay
4 FDA-registered drug labelers
Bestmade Natural Products
BM Private Limited
Hahnemann Laboratories, INC.
Nucleic Products, LLC

Why It Matters

Sectors
Core ChemicalsHealthPlastics & RubberMetals & MiningElectronics
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
No FDA shortage records

Industrial Uses

Used in 5 sectors as 4 functional roles.

  • •Intermediate in All Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing (80%)Processing as a reactant
  • •Intermediate in Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing (5%)Processing as a reactant
  • •Functional fluids (closed systems) in Miscellaneous Manufacturing (10%)Use—non-incorporative activities
  • •Ion exchange agents in Other (85%)Processing as a reactant
  • •Adsorbents and absorbents in All Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing (15%)Processing—repackaging
  • •Functional fluids (closed systems) in All Other Basic Inorganic Chemical ManufacturingProcessing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
  • •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

DTXSID20255092026-04-06

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

Archive: data/sources/comptox/dsstox_identifiers.csv

4332942026-04-06

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rest/pug/compound/cid/433294/property/MolecularFormula,MolecularWeight,CanonicalSMILES,InChIKey/JSON

Archive: data/sources/pubchem_properties/433294.json

7447-41-82026-04-24

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

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

CAS 7447-41-82026-04-07

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

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

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