short ton
nounDefinition of short ton
: a unit of weight equal to 2000 pounds — see Weights and Measures Table
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The nation exported about 116 million short tons of coal in 2018, the highest level since 2013. — L.m. Sixel, Houston Chronicle, "Coal production goes mostly to electricity generation," 11 June 2019 That's according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Energy, which on Monday said coal usage fell to 687 million short tons, its lowest since 1978. — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, "Trump says "coal is back," but use of the rock at a 41-year low," 11 June 2019 In the first quarter of 2017, the price of metallurgical coal exports was $153 per short ton, up from $76 in the third quarter of 2016. — Nicole Lewis, Washington Post, "Fact-checking the Trump administration’s claims on ‘saving’ coal country," 16 Jan. 2018 In the first quarter of 2017, the price of metallurgical coal exports was $153 per short ton, up from $76 in the third quarter of 2016. — Nicole Lewis, Washington Post, "Fact-checking the Trump administration’s claims on ‘saving’ coal country," 16 Jan. 2018 The Port Houston imported and exported 3.7 million short tons of steel in 2017, up 68 percent from the year before, when crude prices sank to a dozen-year low and hampered the oil industry's demand for steel products. — Collin Eaton, Houston Chronicle, "Trump's proposed steel tariffs could hammer Houston businesses, oil industry," 2 Mar. 2018 During the same period in 2017, China imported more than 1 million short tons of U.S. coal. — Nicole Lewis, Washington Post, "Trump’s claim that West Virginia is ‘sending clean coal’ to ‘China’," 11 Dec. 2017 In 2012, coal exports peaked at 125.7 million short tons. — Nicole Lewis, Washington Post, "Trump’s claim that West Virginia is ‘sending clean coal’ to ‘China’," 11 Dec. 2017 The September-delivery futures contract for the benchmark U.S. Midwest Domestic Hot-Rolled Coil Steel Index most recently traded at $620 per short ton on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. — Nina Trentmann, WSJ, "Germany’s Klöckner Hopes for New Steel Tariffs in the U.S.," 10 July 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'short ton.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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