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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Canada supplies 90% of Philippine asbestos imports

Manila, Philippines -- Preliminary data from the Bureau of Customs showed Jeffrey Mine and Lab Chrysotile from Canada supplied 90% of Philippine asbestos imports in 2007-2009. Jeffrey Mine supplied 86% of the total imports!

Brazil’s Sama S.A. Mineracoes Associates and Tsutsui Trading supplied 8% of the imports while the remaining 2% came from South Africa’s C.J. Petrow & Company and China’s Sichuan Textiles Import & Export.

The Philippines imported a total of 5,953,074 kilograms of chrysotile fibers during the two-year period.

To: ban-asbestos-philippines@googlegroups.com; a-ban@googlegroups.com

Source:
Dominador M. Tuvera
Campaign Officer
Associated Labor Unions (ALU) - TUCP
Tel.: +632 922 2575; Cell.: +63 927 8095221
Email: dtuvera@gmail.com

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