{"id":8538,"date":"2026-02-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/salt-blog\/usgs-2026-u-s-salt-demand-rebounds-as-import-reliance-edges-higher\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:24:10","slug":"usgs-2026-u-s-salt-demand-rebounds-as-import-reliance-edges-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ru\/salt-blog\/usgs-2026-u-s-salt-demand-rebounds-as-import-reliance-edges-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"USGS 2026: U.S. Salt Demand Rebounds as Import Reliance Edges Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 estimates U.S. salt production in 2025 at 40 million tonnes, valued at $2.6 billion. The report links stronger consumption to increased road salt and chlor-alkali demand, noting that frequent smaller winter events often drive higher usage than single large storms.<\/p>\n<p>The report flags a regional rock-salt shortage in New York in early 2025 and puts net import reliance at 31%. The primary suppliers for the U.S. market remain Mexico, Chile, and Canada, highlighting the ongoing strategic importance of international salt trade flows for North American infrastructure.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 estimates U.S. salt production in 2025 at 40 million tonnes, valued at $2.6 billion. The report links stronger consumption to increased road salt and chlor-alkali demand, noting that frequent smaller winter events often drive higher usage than single large storms. The report flags a regional rock-salt shortage in New [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8656,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538\/revisions\/8656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}