The domestic output of formaldehyde has increased with the increased demand by resin makers. Production and sales in 1937 were more than double those in 1930. There are three domestic makers, two of which produce methyl alcohol, the raw material. Their plants are located in New Jersey and Oklahoma. Statistics of production and sales are shown in table 84. TABLE 84.—_Formaldehyde: United States production and sales, in specified years_ -------+----------+---------------------------- |Production| Sales Year +----------+--------+----------+-------- | Quantity |Quantity| Value | Value | | | |per lb. -------+----------+--------+----------+-------- | _1,000 |_1,000 | | | pounds_ |pounds_ | | 1914 | ([1]) | 8,426| $655,174| $0.078 1919 | 25,007| 19,664| 3,928,322| .200 1921 | 9,657| 6,056| 651,681| .108 1922 | 23,958| 16,140| 1,676,401| .104 1923 | 24,081| 18,855| 2,474,506| .131 1924 | 26,155| 20,542| 1,971,053| .096 1925 | 31,456| 23,392| 1,895,913| .081 1926 | 31,953| 22,552| 2,050,967| .091 1927 | 29,920| 24,597| 2,256,534| .092 1928 | 38,718| 27,934| 2,491,615| .089 1929 | 51,786| ([2]) | ([2]) | 1930 | 40,763| ([2]) | ([2]) | 1931 | ([1]) | ([1]) | ([1]) | 1932 | ([1]) | ([1]) | ([1]) | 1933 | 52,236| 46,424| 2,122,925| .046 1934-37| ([2]) | ([2]) | ([2]) | -------+----------+--------+----------+-------- [1] Not available. [2] Not publishable; figures would disclose operations of individual firms. Source: Compiled from annual reports of the Tariff Commission on dyes and other synthetic organic chemicals in the United States. Production in other countries. Formaldehyde is produced in England, Germany, France, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Sweden, the Soviet Union, Japan, and Canada. Production data are not available but Germany and England are probably the leading foreign producers. Estimated productive capacity in the Soviet Union is given as 10 million pounds annually; in Japan 6.5 million pounds; in France 4 million pounds; and in Italy 3 million pounds. United States imports and exports. Imports of formaldehyde have been negligible since 1920 when 428,444 pounds, valued at $210,191, were imported. There were no imports from 1928 until 1935, when 375 pounds valued at $72 were imported from Canada. In 1936 imports amounted to 20 pounds, valued at $14, from Switzerland. The United States exports about 5 percent of its production of formaldehyde. Canada is the principal destination of exports, and prior to 1934 Japan was an important market. Table 85 shows exports of formaldehyde to principal markets, in recent years. TABLE 85.—_Formaldehyde: United States exports to principal markets, in specified years, 1929-37_