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Coal prices: from 1987
This line chart shows the Coal Marker Price (Northwest Europe), the price of US coal receipts at steam-electric utility plants, Japan coking coal import price and Japan steam coal import price for the years 1987 to 2006. Coal prices are measured in $/tonne (US dollars per tonne). The Japan coking coal import price and Japan steam coal import price are both calculated as cif which is calculated by adding cost, insurance and freight (average prices).

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Coal prices: from 1987
	Units	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Coal: Prices - US dollars per tonne (from 1988)	$/tonne
Coal Marker Price (Northwest Europe) [22]	$/tonne	31.3	39.94	42.08	43.48	42.8	38.53	33.68	37.18	44.5	41.25	38.92	32	28.79	35.99	39.29	31.65	42.52	71.9	61.07	63.67
US Central Appalachian coal spot price index [23]	$/tonne				31.59	29	28.54	29.85	31.71	26.98	29.87	29.76	31.01	31.28	29.91	49.75	32.96	38.49	64.36	70.82	62.98
Japan coking coal import price (cif) [18]	$/tonne	53.44	55.06	58.68	60.54	60.45	57.82	55.26	51.77	54.47	56.68	55.51	50.76	42.83	39.69	41.33	42.01	41.57	60.96	89.33	93.46
Japan steam coal import price (cif) [18]	$/tonne	41.28	42.47	48.86	50.81	50.3	48.45	45.71	43.66	47.58	49.54	45.53	40.51	35.74	34.58	37.96	36.9	34.74	51.34	62.91	63.04

(18) cif = cost+insurance+freight (average prices).
(22) Source: McCloskey Coal Information Service.
(23) Price is for CAPP 12,500Btu, 1.2 S0².
Coal, fob.
(24) Source: Platts

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