Chloroethane

CAS 75-00-3

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, 2024$13M

Top sourceGermany 84%

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.

Where It Comes From

Customs basis: HS 290311 · exact

EPA reports by year

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

Source Countries

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

DE 84%GermanyCN 11%ChinaNL 4%Netherlands

India
Guatemala

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.

Westlake

Domestic parents -- activity not disclosed (1)

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

Solvay

Why It Matters

Sectors

HealthConsumer ProductsCore Chemicals

Downstream UsesNot recorded

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 5 sectors as 2 functional roles.

•CBI in CBICBI
•Intermediate in All Other Basic Organic Chemical ManufacturingProcessing as a reactant
•Intermediate in Wholesale and Retail TradeProcessing—repackaging
•Intermediate in All Other Chemical Product and Preparation ManufacturingProcessing as a reactant
•Intermediate in Pharmaceutical and Medicine ManufacturingProcessing as a reactant

Vendor Pricing

$217.80/gLabotest KG

CountryGermany

Pack$1089.00 / 5000 mg

Purity90%

Vendors3 available

Prices reflect listed pack sizes. Small research packs run far above bulk rates.

2 more vendors

Vendor	Country	$/g	Pack	Purity
A2B Chem LLC (2 weeks)	United States	$265.20	5 g	—
AA BLOCKS (2 weeks)	United States	$279.80	5 g	—

Chemical Identity

CAS75-00-3

PubChem CID6337

DTXSIDDTXSID1020302

FormulaC2H5Cl

Mol. Weight64.51 g/mol

SMILESCCCl

Data Sources

EPA CompTox (DSSTox) · DTXSID1020302Retrieved 2026-04-06
PubChem · compound 6337Retrieved 2026-04-06
EPA Chemical Data ReportingReporting year: 2023 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
EPA Chemical Data ReportingReporting year: 2023 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
US Census international tradeReporting year: 2024 · Retrieved 2026-10-04

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Brief citations

Chloroethane (CAS 75-00-3) https://chemicalindependence.com/chemical/75-00-3/ EPA CompTox (DSSTox): DTXSID1020302. Retrieved 2026-04-06. https://comptox.epa.gov/dashboard/chemical/details/DTXSID1020302 PubChem: 6337. Retrieved 2026-04-06. https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/6337 EPA Chemical Data Reporting: 75-00-3. Reporting year: 2023. https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting EPA Chemical Data Reporting: CAS 75-00-3. Reporting year: 2023. https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting US Census international trade: HS 290311 for CAS 75-00-3. Reporting year: 2024. https://usatrade.census.gov/