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They should probably also mention that all of the United States asbestos imports comes from Brazil.

>All asbestos used in this country is imported. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the only form of asbestos currently imported into the United States is chrysotile, all of which originated from Brazil in 2017(USGS, 2018). USGS reports that in 2017, the United States imported approximately 300 metric tons of raw asbestos, the total of which they state is used in the chlor-alkali industry (USGS, 2018). In 2016, the United States imported approximately 702 metric tons of raw asbestos (USGS, 2018)

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4495888/Problem-F... Page 238



Brazil banned asbestos in the end of 2017.

https://www.asbestos.com/news/2017/12/04/brazil-asbestos-ban...


Now that Brazil has banned asbestos, Russia is filling the market gap.




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