Nitrogen

CAS 7727-37-9

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$3M

Top sourceItaly 23%

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 280430 · exact

EPA reports by year

2023: US production Confidential · Imports Confidential
2019: US production Confidential · Imports 40.4K lb

Source Countries

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

IT 23%ItalyCA 20%CanadaCZ 19%Czech RepublicTW 12%TaiwanJP 6%Japan

China
South Korea
Singapore
South Africa
Australia
Mexico
Colombia
Switzerland

EPA-registered manufacturers (6)

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

Basf Se · DE Germany

Shell Plc · GB United Kingdom

Aux Sable Liquid Products

Basf

Messer North America

Show all 6

Shell Petroleum

EPA-registered importers (2)

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

Cleveland-Cliffs

S.C. Johnson & Son

Why It Matters

Sectors

Core 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

•Oxidizing agent in All Other Basic Organic Chemical ManufacturingProcessing as a reactant

Chemical Identity

CAS7727-37-9

PubChem CID947

DTXSIDDTXSID4036304

FormulaN2

Mol. Weight28.014 g/mol

SMILESN#N

Data Sources

EPA CompTox (DSSTox) · DTXSID4036304Retrieved 2026-04-06
PubChem · compound 947Retrieved 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

Nitrogen (CAS 7727-37-9) https://chemicalindependence.com/chemical/7727-37-9/ EPA CompTox (DSSTox): DTXSID4036304. Retrieved 2026-04-06. https://comptox.epa.gov/dashboard/chemical/details/DTXSID4036304 PubChem: 947. Retrieved 2026-04-06. https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/947 EPA Chemical Data Reporting: 7727-37-9. Reporting year: 2023. https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting FDA National Drug Code directory: CAS 7727-37-9. Retrieved 2026-04-07. https://open.fda.gov/data/ndc/ US Census international trade: HS 280430 for CAS 7727-37-9. Reporting year: 2024. https://usatrade.census.gov/