Polyethylene AS low Mol.Wt.
No U.S. production. America imports the entire domestic supply.
US ProductionZero
Import Value$2.5B
Import Volume100.5K lbs
Import Dependency100%
Top SourceCanada 74%
Polyethylene AS low Mol.Wt. · US import value by year
Where It Comes From
Customs basis: HS 390110, 390120, 390190 · exact
Source Countries
Country of origin for US imports, from Census customs data (2023).
CA 74%CanadaMX 7%MexicoDE 4%GermanyKR 3%South KoreaSE 2%Sweden
- Austria
- Switzerland
- Spain
- Malaysia
- United Kingdom
- Australia
- Saudi Arabia
- Honduras
- Colombia
- Singapore
- Denmark
- Taiwan
- India
- Vietnam
- New Zealand
- Poland
- Ireland
- Czech Republic
- United Arab Emirates
- Indonesia
- Turkey
- Slovakia
- Norway
- Portugal
- Peru
- Pakistan
- Qatar
- Hungary
- Costa Rica
- Philippines
- Argentina
- Luxembourg
- Jordan
- Cambodia
- Dominican Republic
- Panama
- Slovenia
- Greece
- Chile
- Morocco
- Lithuania
- South Africa
- Ukraine
- Liechtenstein
EPA-registered importers (1)
Companies that report making or importing this chemical to the EPA. Registration is US-centric and does not indicate import origin.
Ferro
Why It Matters
Sectors
ConstructionTextiles
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
Industrial Uses
Used in 3 sectors as 2 functional roles.
- •Pigment in Synthetic Dye and Pigment ManufacturingProcessing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
- •Fuels and fuel additives in Non-metallic Mineral Product Manufacturing (includes clay, glass, cement, concrete, lime, gypsum, and other non-metallic mineral product manufacturing)Use—non-incorporative activities
- •Fuels and fuel additives in ConstructionUse—non-incorporative activities
Chemical Identity
CAS9002-88-4
PubChem CIDNo data available
DTXSIDDTXSID8031946
FormulaNo data available
Mol. WeightNo data available
SMILESNo data available
Data Sources
DTXSID80319462026-04-06
https://doi.org/10.23645/epacomptox.5588566
Archive: data/sources/comptox/dsstox_identifiers.csv
9002-88-42026-04-24
https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting
Archive: data/sources/epa_cdr/2020_cdr.csv
CAS 9002-88-42026-04-25
https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting
Archive: data/sources/epa_cdr/2020_cdr_industrial.csv