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RANK JOC TOP 100 EXPORTERS TEUS IN 2013 SECTOR NOTES

1 AMERICA CHUNG NAM 374,200 City of Industry, Calif. www.acni.net

Paper & Plastics/Recyclables; Animal Feed/Grains

2 KOCH INDUSTRIES 213,600 Wichita, Kan. www.kochind.com

Conglomerate

3 INTERNATIONAL PAPER 172,600 Memphis www.ipaper.com

Paper/Packaging

4 DENISON INTERNATIONAL 112,700 Diamond Bar, Calif. N/A

Paper/Recyclables

5 DUPONT 105,100 Wilmington, Del. www.dupont.com

Diversified

6 POTENTIAL INDUSTRIES 103,200 Wilmington, Calif. www.potential industries.com

Paper Recyclables

7 WEYERHAEUSER 98,400 Federal Way, Wash. www.weyerhaeuser.com

Forest/Wood Products

8 tie DELONG 93,400 Clinton, Wis. www.delongcompany.com

Animal Feed/Grain

NEWPORT CH INTL. 93,400 Orange, Calif. www.newportchintl.com; www.chrecycling.com

Paper/Metals /Plastics Recyclables

10 DOW CHEMICAL 88,100 Midland, Mich. www.dow.com

Diversified

11 CARGILL 81,200 Wayzata, Minn. www.cargill.com

Conglomerate

12 SIMS METAL MANAGEMENT 80,700 New York www.simsmm.com

Metals & Electronics/Recyclables

13 SHINTECH 78,400 Houston www.shintechinc.com

Chemicals

14 BASF NORTH AMERICA 75,400 Florham Park, N.J. www.basf.us

Chemicals-Diversified

15 JC HORIZON 75,200 Arcadia, Calif. www.jchorizonltd.com

Paper/Metals/Plastics Recyclables

16 MEADWESTVACO 66,100 Richmond, Va. www.mwv.com

Diversified

17 LOUIS DREYFUS COMMODITIES; 65,700 Cordova, Tenn.

ALLENBERG COTTON www.ldcom.com/our-business/our-platforms/cotton Cotton

18 ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND 64,300 Decatur, Ill. www.admworld.com

Agriculture

19 TRANS COASTAL SUPPLY 61,400 Decatur, Ill. www.transcoastalsupply.com

Animal Feed/Grain

20 INTERNATIONAL FOREST 60,300 Foxboro, Mass.

PRODUCTS www.ifpcorp.com Paper/Recyclables

Recovered paper exporter is the primary supplier and sister company to Nine Dragons Paper Industries,

China’s largest containerboard manufacturer. Also exports plastic recyclables, animal feed/grain and,

most recently, U.S. wine to China.

Private U.S. company. Major units include Georgia-Pacific, GP Harmon Recycling and Invista. Acquired

Buckeye Technologies in 2013.

Global paper and packaging company with operations in North America, Europe, Latin America,

Russia, Asia and North Africa. 2012 net sales of $28 billion. The merger to combine IP’s xpedx business-

to-business distribution business with Unisource is scheduled to close in the third quarter.

Exports paper for recycling mainly to mainland China via California ports and the Port of New York-

New Jersey.

Operates in more than 90 countries. Acquired food ingredients company Danisco in 2011 and

remaining 28 percent of soy-based ingredients company Solae from Bunge in 2012. Sold Performance

Coatings unit to Carlyle Group in February 2013.

Exports paper for recycling, primarily from California and New York-New Jersey to mainland China. Has

rail access at recycling facility.

Timberlands and wood products company converted to a real estate investment trust in 2010. Owns

6 million acres of timberlands in the U.S. The hardwood operations and Westwood Shipping Lines

were sold in the third quarter of 2011.

Family owned company with 15 locations in Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio. Has grain, fertilizer,

agrichemicals, seed, feed and pet food operations. New 8.8-acre grain export facility at Logistics Park

Kansas City. Transportation unit is DeLco Transport International.

A partnership with Canusa Hershman Recycling exports wastepaper, steel scrap and plastics to Asia,

mostly to China. 75 percent of its annual volume is exported.

Diversified portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses.

Owns Rohm & Haas. Received $2.16 billion from K-Dow arbitration. New Texas propylene plant to start

up in 2015 and Texas ethylene plant to start up in 2017.

Private U.S. company. Divested stake in global phosphate, potash and nitrogen specialist Mosaic in

May 2011. Scheduled to open a new $100 million cocoa processing plant in Indonesia this year. Owns

zero-calorie sweetener Truvia.

Divested Colorado, Arizona and Nashville operations in 2012. Invested in mixed metal recycler

Chiho-Tiande Group in mainland China. Acquired U.S. Gulf shredder and feeder yards. Rhode Island

greenfield facility completed in September 2013.

Largest U.S. producer of polyvinyl chloride. Parent is Shin-Etsu Chemical of Japan.

North American affiliate of BASF SE, based in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

Serves the Asia-Pacific recycled paper, metal and plastics markets, primarily China, where it has several

offices.

MWV operates in 30 countries and serves customers in more than 100 countries through a network

of 125 facilities in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Spun off the consumer and office

products business in a merger with ACCO Brands in May 2012.

Cotton merchandising division of Paris-based Louis Dreyfus Group acquired the global cotton operation

of Memphis-based Dunavant Enterprises in 2010.

This agricultural processor of food ingredients, animal nutrition, biofuel and industrial products has

270 processing plants and 470 crop procurement facilities. Owns or leases 2,500 barges, 27,400

railcars, 600 trucks, 1,300 trailers and 52 ships.

Established in 2007. Markets grains and feed ingredients, primarily to Asia.

Provides transloading.

Part of the privately owned and family operated Kraft Group, which also includes the Rand-Whitney

paper and packaging business, Gillette Stadium, the New England Patriots and the New England

Revolution soccer team.

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21 LANSING TRADE GROUP 54,100 Overland Park, Kan. www.lansingtradegroup.com

Chemicals

22 CEDARWOOD-YOUNG (ALLAN CO.) 53,900 Baldwin Park, Calif. www.allancompany.com

Paper/Recyclables

23 AL DAHRA ACX GLOBAL 53,200 Bakersfield Calif. www.acxpacific.com

Animal Feed/Grain

24 JBS USA 51,700 Greeley, Colo. www.jbssa.com; www.jbs.com.br Refrigerated Meats/Poultry

25 GAVILON 51,600 Omaha, Neb. www.gavilon.com

Animal Feed/Grain

26 EXXONMOBIL CHEMICAL 50,200 Houston www.exxonmobilchemical.com

Chemicals

27 CELLMARK GROUP 50,000 Norwalk, Conn.; San Rafael, Calif. www.cellmark.com

Paper/Paper Products/Recyclables

28 tie CATERPILLAR 47,200 Peoria, Ill. www.caterpillar.com

Mfg-Machinery

WM RECYCLE AMERICA 47,200 Houston www.recycleamerica.com

Diversified/Recycler

30 SCOULAR 44,500 Omaha, Neb. www.scoular.com

Agriculture/Foodstuffs

31 EASTMAN CHEMICAL 43,200 Kingsport, Tenn. www.eastman.com

Chemicals/Fibers/Plastics

32 ADVANCED STEEL RECOVERY 42,700 Fontana, Calif. www.advancedsteel.com

Metals/Recyclables

33 TYSON FOODS 41,400 Springdale, Ark. www.tysonfoods.com

Refrigerated Meats/Poultry

34 ARMY & AIR FORCE 38,800 Dallas

EXCHANGE SERVICE www.shopmyexchange.com Retail

35 CYCLE LINK 37,400 Diamond Bar, Calif. www.cyclelink.com

Recyclables

36 PROCTER & GAMBLE 36,800 Cincinnati www.pg.com

Mfg-Consumer Products

37 ANDERSON HAY & GRAIN 36,200 Ellensburg, Wash www.anderson-hay.com

Animal Feed

38 AJC INTERNATIONAL 34,800 Atlanta www.ajcfood.com

Food/Refrigerated

39 DOMTAR 34,300 Fort Mill, S.C.; Montreal www.domtar.com

Paper /Forest Products

40 GENESIS RESOURCE ENTERPRISES 34,000 Springfield, N.J. N/A

Paper/Recyclables

Controls nearly 16 million bushels of elevator space. Trades whole grains and oil seeds, feed ingredients

and energy products. Has a joint venture with Titan Transloading for transloading frac sand and crude

oil in the Texas Permian Basin.

Processes more than 1.3 million tons a year of paper, glass, plastics, aluminum, electronics waste and

other recyclables in 12 California plants. Markets to 20 countries.

Recently rebranded from ACX Pacific Northwest. Owns and operates hay processing plants in

Ellensburg, Washington; Stockton and Wilmington, California; and Goldsboro, North Carolina. A

member of the Al Dahra Agricultural group of companies of the United Arab Emirates.

Owned by Brazil’s JBS Group, an animal protein processing company for food, leather, pet products

and biodiesel products. Owns Swift & Co. and Smithfield Beef Group, and the JBS USA unit owns

75 percent of Pilgrim’s Pride. Has 140 plants worldwide.

Agriculture, fertilizer and energy commodity management. A former unit of Conagra, thereafter

privatized with acquisition by Marubeni in mid-2012. Union Elevator and Warehouse in Washington,

and AgriService of Brazil.

ExxonMobil subsidiary. The largest U.S. integrated refining-chemical complex at Baytown, Texas,

will expand its premium polyethylene production with a new new multibillion-dollar steam

cracker.

The paper, packaging and recycling divisions are based in the U.S. Only the pulp business is based in

Sweden at parent Cellmark. Sources from 80 countries with sales in 125 countries. Opened a metals

and a chemical division.

Manufactures construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas

turbines and diesel electric locomotives.

A national network of paper, plastics, glass, metals and electronics recycling. Subsidiary of Waste

Management offers collection, transfer, recycling, resource recovery, and disposal services. U.S.

developer, operator and owner of waste-to-energy and landfill gas-to-energy facilities.

Privately held, employee-owned food, feed and renewable fuel agricultural products marketing

company. NVOCC and forwarder TSC Container Freight is a separate division.

Acquired Genovique Specialties plasticizer product lines in 2010. In 2011, divested the PET and

performance polymers businesses and acquired Sterling, Scandiflex, Dynaloy and TetraVitae

Biosciences. Acquired performance materials and specialty chemicals maker Solutia in mid-2012.

Privately owned company automates the containerization of industrial scrap steel and nonferrous

metals through its patented FASTek machinery invention. Full-service pickup, processing and direct mill

delivery. Offers client online inventory, removal and payment tracking.

Processes and markets beef, poultry and pork and produces prepared food products. In-country poultry

operations in Mexico, Brazil, India and China.

The military retailer operates more than 3,100 facilities in the U.S. and worldwide. Funded solely

through its sales, it sells at low price via on-base locations as well as an online and mobile exchange at

www.shopmyexchange.com to authorized customers.

Primarily handles recovered paper since 2007. Sourcing services for recovered fibers, plastics and

metals. Has offices in Japan, the U.K., the Netherlands and mainland China.

176-year-old company with sales in 180 countries. Sold snack business, including Pringles, to Kellogg

in May 2012.

Works with a network of family owned farms. Exports hay and straw products from Washington,

Oregon and its Wilmington, California, processing plant to Asia.

Private meat, poultry, fruit, vegetable and seafood distributor. Specialty is refrigerated foods under its

own brands. Owns AJC Logistics, operates warehouses, offers breakbulk chartered refrigerated vessel

services.

North American manufacturer and distributor based in Montreal. Approximately 80 percent of the

business in paper/pulp. Acquired Attends Healthcare with manufacturing in Georgia and North

Carolina in 2011.

Exports paper for recycling to Asia, primarily to mainland China via the Port of

New York-New Jersey.