You're all over this comment thread spreading your speculation as fact. Semiconductor-manufacturing grade bromine (specifically anhydrous hydrogen bromide) is, in fact, made in the US.
You may be right but it would have been nice to name the company that produces it.
The USGS article pointed by others contains absolutely no information about a US producer.
The parent article lists at least 3 US producers of ordinary bromine, but it claims that none of them produces semiconductor-grade pure HBr and the conclusion of the parent article is that someone should build in USA a purification plant, to avoid risks.
Perhaps TFA is wrong and there exists a US supplier, though even if that were true it is unknown whether it could increase its production if a shortage happened.
If you know information that contradicts the parent article, you should provide it, i.e. by naming the company.
In general any company benefits when more people know what it produces, so I cannot believe that you are bound by any confidentiality constraint to not name the producer, when you know it.
I have replied in many places in this thread because all the comments were wrong. This is no speculation. I have worked in semiconductor manufacturing and I know perfectly well the difference between semiconductor-grade pure substances and the ordinary chemical substances, while all those comments are wrong, by confusing these things.
Nothing that I said is speculation or wrong, because I have just pointed that those comments state conclusions that do not follow from their premises. The fact that USA produces ordinary bromine is no evidence that it produces semiconductor-grade pure bromine.
If you are right, that does not invalidate anything that I have said. It invalidates only the parent article, which concludes that a purification plant should be built in USA, while you say that such a plant already exists.
I work for the company that was Ethyl and we have old "propaganda posters" touting the benefits of tetraethyllead on the walls of the administration building at the location where TEL was produced. They're curios from another time and hung on the walls as a reminder that acceptable science, norms, and requirements change over time. We're not the company we once were, but the past is worthy of remembrance--if only so the mistakes thereof are not repeated.
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