Calcium carbide (CaC2)
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$4M
Import VolumeZero
Top SourceBrazil 51%
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 284910 · exact
Source Countries
Country of origin for US imports, from Census customs data (2023).
BR 51%BrazilSK 44%SlovakiaCA 3%CanadaCN 2%China
- Mexico
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.
Carbide Industries
Why It Matters
Sectors
Core Chemicals
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
Chemical Identity
CAS75-20-7
PubChem CIDNo data available
DTXSIDDTXSID4026399
FormulaNo data available
Mol. WeightNo data available
SMILESNo data available
Data Sources
DTXSID40263992026-04-06
https://doi.org/10.23645/epacomptox.5588566
Archive: data/sources/comptox/dsstox_identifiers.csv
75-20-72026-04-24
https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting
Archive: data/sources/epa_cdr/2020_cdr.csv
CAS 75-20-72026-04-25
https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting
Archive: data/sources/epa_cdr/2020_cdr_industrial.csv