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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 2004. 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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	Units	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992
Coal Marker Price (Northwest Europe) [24]	$/tonne	31.30	39.94	42.08	43.48	42.8	38.53
Price of US coal receipts at steam-electric utility plants	$/tonne	35.09	33.77	33.29	33.33	33.06	32.23
Japan coking coal import price (cif) [20]	$/tonne	53.44	55.06	58.68	60.54	60.45	57.82
Japan steam coal import price (cif) [20]	$/tonne	41.28	42.47	48.86	50.81	50.30	48.45

	Units	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
Coal Marker Price (Northwest Europe) [24]	$/tonne	33.68	37.18	44.5	41.25	38.92	32
Price of US coal receipts at steam-electric utility plants	$/tonne	31.57	30.75	29.85	29.19	28.79	28.31
Japan coking coal import price (cif) [20]	$/tonne	55.26	51.77	54.47	56.68	55.51	50.76
Japan steam coal import price (cif) [20]	$/tonne	45.71	43.66	47.57	49.54	45.53	40.50

	Units	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Coal Marker Price (Northwest Europe) [24]	$/tonne	28.79	35.99	39.29	31.65	42.52	71.90
Price of US coal receipts at steam-electric utility plants	$/tonne	27.46	27.13	27.62	27.89	28.33	29.93
Japan coking coal import price (cif) [20]	$/tonne	42.83	39.69	41.33	42.01	41.57	60.96
Japan steam coal import price (cif) [20]	$/tonne	35.74	34.58	37.96	36.90	34.74	51.34

(20) cif = cost+insurance+freight (average prices).
(24) Source: McCloskey Coal Information Service.

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