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Coal prices: from 1988
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 1988 to 2005. 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	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993
Coal Marker Price (Northwest Europe) [22]	$/tonne	39.94	42.08	43.48	42.8	38.53	33.68
US Central Appalachian coal spot price index [23]	$/tonne			31.59	29	28.54	29.85
Japan coking coal import price (cif) [18]	$/tonne	55.06	58.68	60.54	60.45	57.82	55.26
Japan steam coal import price (cif) [18]	$/tonne	42.47	48.86	50.81	50.3	48.45	45.71

	Units	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Coal Marker Price (Northwest Europe) [22]	$/tonne	37.18	44.5	41.25	38.92	32	28.79
US Central Appalachian coal spot price index [23]	$/tonne	31.71	26.98	29.87	29.76	31.01	31.28
Japan coking coal import price (cif) [18]	$/tonne	51.76	54.47	56.68	55.51	50.76	42.83
Japan steam coal import price (cif) [18]	$/tonne	43.66	47.58	49.54	45.53	40.51	35.74

	Units	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Coal Marker Price (Northwest Europe) [22]	$/tonne	35.99	39.29	31.65	42.52	71.9	61.07
US Central Appalachian coal spot price index [23]	$/tonne	29.91	49.75	32.96	38.49	64.36	70.82
Japan coking coal import price (cif) [18]	$/tonne	39.69	41.33	42.01	41.57	60.96	89.33
Japan steam coal import price (cif) [18]	$/tonne	34.58	37.96	36.9	34.74	51.34	62.91

(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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