A farm family struggles to recover after rising debt pushes a husband to suicide
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this is what the trade war is doing to farmers. Nothing will change. Manufacturing is not coming back, nor is coal.
Baloney.......we are selling coal to China right now.....LOL
And Manufacturing is trying to make a comeback with the more friendly business environment.........Your side doesn't have a leg to stand on with Business.........because in States Solid Blue..........they haul ass and you GO ..........WHY DID THEY LEAVE........because you are a bunch of Morons........can't see the forest for the trees.
Which reminds me........In California they are now doing what people have been telling them to do for Decades........Thinning and controlled burns..........It took the State BURNING TO THE GROUND before they went ....................Maybe these people were right.........Only after ENTIRE TOWNS were burnt down.
Stupidity in motion......and voters voting in asshats who always go HIGHER TAXES........then in the next sentence we are here to help you..........LOL
Nevertheless.
US coal production is declining...and China isn't even among the top five markets for US coal.
U.S. coal exports
The United States is a net exporter of coal, meaning that it exports more coal to other countries than it imports from other countries. In 2012, U.S. coal exports reached a record high of 126 MMst, equal to 12% of U.S. coal production in 2012. U.S. coal exports declined each year from 2012 through 2016 and then increased in 2017 and 2018. In 2018, the United States exported about 116 MMst of coal—equal to about 15% of U.S. coal production—to at least 52 countries.
About 47% of U.S. coal exports in 2018 went to five countries.
- The top five destinations of U.S. coal exports, the amount exported, and their percent shares of total coal exports in 2018 were
- India 17.19 MMst15%
- The Netherlands 12.36 MMst11%
- Japan 10.39 MMst9%
- South Korea 9.32 MMst8%
- Brazil 8.60 MMst7%
The United States imports and exports metallurgical coal and steam coal. Metallurgical coal can be used for steel production, and steam coal can be used for electricity generation. Metallurgical coal accounted for about 53% of total U.S. coal exports in 2018. Steam coal accounted for 88% of total U.S. coal imports in 2018.
Coal imports and exports - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
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