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EIA Quarterly Coal Report (US met-coal export price)

U.S. Energy Information Administration

average price of U.S. metallurgical coal exports (Table 12, dollars per short ton, f.a.s.), total + by destination, quarterly

Source

How it's published

Feed (what to expect)

Free quarterly XLSX (t12p01p1.xlsx); re-vendor each QCR edition. Vendored.

Cadence: quarterly (QCR edition)
Access: free XLSX download (public domain)
Format: XLSX (Table 12, grand-Total row)
Licence: us_gov_public_domain
Vintage: 2026-q1
Upstream: https://www.eia.gov/coal/production/quarterly/xls/t12p01p1.xlsx

Quirks

US EXPORT-BASKET unit value (mixes high-vol A/B and lower grades) - NOT the seaborne premium-HCC benchmark; levels run below FOB-Australia spot
dollars per SHORT ton (0.907185 t) - never mix with metric-tonne series; the metric conversion is carried in notes
one PriceRecord per year from that year's latest quarter column; observation_count=3 flags every row as a quarterly print, not an annual mean
underlying data: US Census Bureau Monthly Report EM 545 (f.a.s. value)

Cache-only; operator drops the vendored XLSX into data/raw/eia_qcr/<vintage>/. Second price lane for metallurgical_coal next to the REQ premium-HCC seed.

Reconciliation

Role in the canonical graph

Authority tier: Official survey
Provenance: Authoritative
Canonicality: tier 1
Primary for: —
Contributes IDs: —
Name-block matching: trusted
Reconcile profile: default (tier 1)

Schema

What it feeds & emits

Feeds (axes)

Pricing

Record kinds

PriceRecord

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