Exporting U.S. Coal Helps America and Developing World

The United States has an unrivalled self-interest in serving international markets that urgently need coal to grow their economies and improve the livelihoods of their people. In fact, increasing our coal exports is an unusually clear example of how unfettered trade benefits both exporting and importing countries.

With the world’s largest coal reserves, the U.S. finds itself in the enviable position of having more of what the fastest-growing countries of the world need. China and India are lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by building vast electricity grids that bring coal-generated power to homes and workplaces. Coal is the only fuel for electricity generation that is sufficiently affordable and abundant to literally bring this power to the people. It is also a vital ingredient for the steelmaking plants in Asia and Brazil that are laying foundations for a 21st century industrial revolution. American metallurgical coal is a building block of this progress much as it is for our own industrial progress.

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