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07/01/2026 | News release | Distributed by Public on 07/01/2026 07:57

Quarterly Coal Report—First Quarter 2026

First-quarter coal production data were unavailable at the time of publication. We will update the Quarterly Coal Report when the data become available.

The Quarterly Coal Report provides detailed quarterly data on U.S. coal production, exports, imports, receipts, prices, consumption, quality, and stocks. The report also provides data on U.S. coke production, consumption, stocks, imports, and exports. All data for 2024 and previous years are final. All data for 2025 and 2026 are preliminary.

  • U.S. coal exports for the first quarter of 2026 (23.7 MMst) increased 0.9% from the fourth quarter of 2025. The average price of U.S. coal exports during the first quarter of 2026 was $114.22 per short ton.
  • The United States continued to import coal primarily from Colombia (68.5%) and Canada (17.5%). U.S. coal imports in the first quarter of 2026 totaled 0.7 MMst. The average price of U.S. coal imports during the first quarter of 2026 was $134.74 per short ton.
  • Steam coal exports totaled 10.4 MMst (1.9% higher than the fourth quarter of 2025). Metallurgical coal exports totaled 13.3 MMst (0.2% higher than the fourth quarter of 2025).
  • U.S. coal consumption totaled 105 MMst in the first quarter of 2026, which was 2.9% lower than the 108.2 MMst reported in the fourth quarter of 2025 and 11.4% lower than the 118.5 MMst reported in the first quarter of 2025. The electric power sector accounted for about 91.7% of the total U.S. coal consumption in the first quarter of 2026.
  • In the first quarter of 2026, coal stocks grew to 137.7 MMst from 136.2 MMst at the end of the fourth quarter of 2025 (a 1.1% increase). Stocks in the electric power sector increased to 110.9 MMst from 109.5 MMst at the end of the fourth quarter of 2025.
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