World Trade in Disinfectants Doubles to $ 6 Billion in 2020
Sep 1, 2021
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Global disinfectant imports skyrocketed to $6B in 2020, rising more than twofold over the last year. In physical terms imports grew from 0.9M tons to 1.9M tons. In 2020, the U.S., Canada and Japan featured the largest figures of purchases from abroad in value terms. America saw the highest growth rate of imports, increasing the volume of supplies ninefold. Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, the UK, Germany, Canada and France followed the U.S. in terms of import growth per year. Germany, the U.S. and the UK constituted 39% of global export value last year.