the latest edition of On Site magazine (www-sitemag.com) says last year was a banner year for U.S. construction equipment exports , with Canada easily retaining its number one position as a customer . In fact Canada bought more U.S. construction equipment than the next seven “top ” customer nations combined (4.7 billion can $ ) This must be one catagory where the U.S. is doing better than the asians !
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Yea I think the US is the number # for exporting equipment. I work at a open pit coal mine where we use dozers and big shovels. We've been waiting on 2 dozers for a year but theres so many going overseas that were on a waiting list. The chinese are really buying equipment for all their projects.
china ranks as # 8 as they only bought 270 million $ a drop of ten % from the pre
vious year.
#1 canada : 4.7 billion up 35% from previous year
#2 Australia 1.1 billion up 40% " " "
#3 Mexico 790 million up 11% " " "
#4 Belgium &44 Million up 60%
#5 Brazil 632 million Up 113%
#6 Chile 585 million Up 46%
#7 Singapore 577 million up 126%
#8 China 270 million down 10%
I think what would be more relevant would be to look at our total exports of construction equipment vs our total imports. I don't know what the figures are, but I'm willing to bet that we import far more than we export- just look at all the imported brands out there- Hitachi, Daewoo, Mitsubishi, Samsung, Komatsu, Takeuchi, etc. I'm seeing more orange around here lately than I am Caterpillar yellow..........
Bob
I working at the other end of the coal line. coal comes in on barges then sent out on big boats to china, and then china coal comes in to go to our powerplants.. BOB thinks I,m an idiot
I used to haul high btu coal from southern colorado to a railsiding down by gallup nm.
That coal was shipped to china and japan too. One guy said they used it in their steel mills
Even the used stuff. The stone yard where I got my granite (SF Bay Area) is next door to a company that buys used equipment - big stuff like D9's - referbs, breaks it down, loads it into containers and ships it off. Apparently eastern Europe was a big destination. The stone salesman said they moved a lot of machinery through there.