Band 3-mediated C1-exchange in human red blood cells and resealed ghosts was measured at 38°C by the continuous flow tube method. When external C1-concentration, C (°), is varied with constant internal C1-o concentration, C (i), the flux fits a simple Michaelis-Menten saturation curve (MM fit), with KI/2 = 3.8 2 0.4 mM. When the CI-concentration is varied simultaneously at both sides of the membrane in resealed ghosts (C (i) = C(o) = C(i = o)), the flux rises toward a flat maximum between 200 and 450 mM C1-, and then decreases at very high C li=°). An MM fit to the data with C {i = o/ < 500 mM gives KI~ 2 of 106 + 13 mM; fits including modifier site inhibition (MS fit) give an over threefold higher K~) 2. Despite this uncertainty, the intrinsic asymmetry of unloaded transport sites, A (defined as E{°)/E I~) with C ~) = C °~, where E (i) is the fraction of unloaded inward-facing sites and E ~°) is the fraction of unloaded outward-facing sites), calculated from KIll2 and KI/°2, ranges only from 0.046 to 0.107. A new method, which uses the initial slope of a plot of C1 flux versus C ~i -°), gives A values of 0.023 to 0.038. Flufenamic acid (FA) inhibits C1-exchange by binding to an external site different from the transport site. At 38°C, FA binds 24-36 times more tightly to E ~°) than to E (i). Estimates of A from FA inhibitory potency range from 0.01 to 0.05. All methods, including bicarbonate data from the preceding paper, indicate that at 38°C, like 0°C, far more band 3 molecules are in the E 0/ than in the E ~°) form. The agreement of various methods supports the ping-pong model for anion exchange, and demonstrates that the intrinsic asymmetry is very slightly, if at all, affected by temperature.