Caustic soda world trade

Caustic Soda in the 1990 s A World Survey of Supply, Demand, and Trade, Tecnon Consulting Group, London, 1989. 

The United Nations Statistical Yearbook (2) contains statistics for countries throughout the world on population, manpower, land use, agriculture, forestry, and fisheries, mining and quarrying, manufacture (for a selected group of important products such as foods and fuels), external trade, balance of payments, national income, currency arid credits, public finance, social welfare, and education. Production statistic include data for suhuric, hydrochloric, and nitric acid, caustic soda, superphosphates, nitrogenous fertilizers, benzoV phosphate rock, potash, and sulfur. 

World trade Most chlor-alkali electrolysis plants are situated in the vicinity of the chlorine users. The alkali users, particularly the alumina and pulp paper industries, are placed in the winning regions. Like the world trade with chlorinated hydrocarbons there are flows of liquid caustic soda with a volume between 2 and 3 million tonnes of NaOH (100%) per year. The net exporting regions are and will remain North America, the Middle East, Japan and Western Europe. Importing regions are South America (Surinam, Venezuela), Australia and South East Asia. 

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