More prosaically, the American National Coal Association asserted that the United States profitably sold coal to Newcastle in the early 1990s,"U.S. Beats The Price Of Coal In Newcastle", William Flannery, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 10, 1990 and 70,000 tonnes of low-sulphur coal was imported by Alcan from Russia in 2004 for their local aluminium smelting plant.
