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                        GRAYBAR ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC.

                             LIST OF SUBSIDIARIES
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Graybar Foreign Sales Corporation, a Barbados corporation.

Graybar International, Inc., a Missouri corporation.

Graybar Financial Services, Inc., a Missouri corporation.

Graybar Electric de Mexico, S. DE R.L. DE C.V., a Mexican corporation.

Graybar Electric Limited, a Nova Scotia corporation.

Graybar Foundation, Inc., a Missouri corporation.

Graybar Services, Inc., an Illinois corporation.

Distribution Associates, Inc., a Missouri corporation.

Graybar Electric (Ontario) Limited, an Ontario corporation.

Graybar International PTE LTD, a Singapore corporation.

Graybar Business Services, Inc., a Missouri corporation.

Graybar International de Chile Limitada, a Chile limited liability
partnership.