Total supply rose 1% year-on-year to 1, 051.6 metric tons, according to the quarterly trend report.
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The European Union imports more than one million metric tons of U.S. wheat each year.
The U.S. produced a total of about 6, 633.2 million metric tons of greenhouse gases in 2009.
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The commercial sector, businesses, emitted slightly more: from 403.5 million metric tons to 409.5.
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In base metals, copper imports actually set a new record of 406, 937 metric tons.
By then, they estimate, nuclear plants will have generated another 40, 000 metric tons of spent fuel.
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The company expects to raise production to 19, 050 metric tons by the end of 2012.
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Over the last twelve-month period ended on September 30, 2012 output reached 317.4 million metric tons.
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Ms. FRAZIER: Well, President Bush has called for immediately shipping 2, 850 metric tons of commodities.
The average ship burns about 5 metric tons of fuel each day in port.
It measures ten by twenty meters and weights three metric tons, event organizers told the newswire.
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To equal one kilogramme of anthrax, four metric tons of ricin would be needed.
Through June, central banks bought just over 200 metric tons for the year so far.
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Brazil imported 1.5 million metric tons, up from 1.2 million in the same period last year.
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In September, they totaled 69.7 metric tons up an impressive 22% from a year earlier.
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Today Courtice Steel makes good money, producing 250, 000 metric tons of long products a year.
The USDA cut its estimate of Argentina's corn crop by 6% to 23.5 million metric tons.
World Food Programme, which unloaded a plane carrying 7 metric tons of high-energy biscuits on Thursday.
Google said the company emitted 1.46 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2010.
China (at 4.7 metric tons per person) and India (1.2 metric tons per person) lag far behind.
All told, the U.S. produced a whopping 5, 638 million metric tons of energy-related CO2 emissions in 2010.
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During this same time only about 58, 000 metric tons of gold have been brought from the ground.
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The bank forecast a zinc surplus this year of 450, 000 metric tons, compare to 200, 000 for lead.
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Those that reduce their emissions below their targets can sell contracts representing metric tons of carbon dioxide.
Today, the EIA estimates that total U.S. 2012 energy-related CO2 emissions will equal 5, 320 million metric tons.
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The 55 exchange-traded products tracked by Barclays Capital had gold holdings of 2, 607 metric tons as of Tuesday.
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Investors in the country's financial and gold trading hub, Mumbai, may offload 1.5 metric tons daily, he predicted.
Brazil exported 1.3 million metric tons of beef last year compared to U.S. exports of 1.1 million tons.
It imported 3.5 million metric tons in March, up 51% from February, but down 12% from March 2010.
It has a capacity of 525, 000 metric tons a year but needs to convert to energy-efficient coal-fired boilers.
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