Official data Source: US Census Bureau international trade data Data through August 2026 · updated monthly

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Margarine, excluding liquid margarine

In short

  • The US imported $43.6M of this product over the 12 months to August 2026, up 15% on the year before.
  • Canada is the largest supplier, with 26.7% of US imports; Dominican Republic is next, with 17.1%.
  • Indonesia is the cheapest main supplier before and after freight and duty, landing at $1.55/kg.
  • Duty paid averaged 9.6% of the value of imports in August 2026, down 2.6 points on a year earlier.
  • Poland is gaining share: 17.8% over the last 12 months, up from 4.0%.
  • US exports were $42.9M over the last 12 months; the largest market is Mexico, with 57.8%.

US imports, Aug 2026

$2.9M

↓ −20% vs Aug 2025

Last 12 months

$43.6M

↑ +15% vs the 12 months before

Average duty paid

9.6%

↓ −2.6 pts vs Aug 2025

Top supplier

Canada

26.7% of US imports

US imports by month

The last 13 months, so the same month a year ago is on the left. August 2026 is highlighted. Dotted lines mark lasting changes in duty paid, labelled with the supplier, or "Duty" when several moved; the tariff timeline lists each one with its notices.

Aug2025SepOctNovDecJan2026FebMarAprMayJunJulAugIndonesia ↑Duty ↓
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MonthUS imports
August 2025$3.6M
September 2025$3.4M
October 2025$3.5M
November 2025$3.8M
December 2025$3.9M
January 2026$4.0M
February 2026$3.1M
March 2026$4.6M
April 2026$2.7M
May 2026$3.8M
June 2026$3.7M
July 2026$4.2M
August 2026$2.9M

What changed

  • US imports were $2.9M in August 2026, down 32% from July 2026 and down 20% from August 2025.
  • Over the 12 months to August 2026 they totalled $43.6M, up 15% on the 12 months before.
  • Biggest moves in market share since July 2026: Canada up from 18.7% to 26.7%, Poland down from 21.9% to 11.7%.
  • Average price from Dominican Republic rose 6.2% since July 2026, to $3.62/kg.
  • Duty paid on imports from Brazil rose from 12.7% to 40.5% of their value since July 2026.
  • Duty paid on imports from Poland fell from 13.5% to 8.2% of their value since July 2026.

US trade by year

US imports were $43.6M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, up 193% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $42.9M, up 44%. Dotted lines mark lasting changes in duty paid, labelled with the supplier, or "Duty" when several moved; the tariff timeline lists each one with its notices.

2017201820192020202120222023202420252026Canada ↓Duty ↑
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PeriodUS imports
12 months to Aug 2017$14.9M
12 months to Aug 2018$22.3M
12 months to Aug 2019$22.7M
12 months to Aug 2020$22.1M
12 months to Aug 2021$24.8M
12 months to Aug 2022$32.0M
12 months to Aug 2023$35.7M
12 months to Aug 2024$38.1M
12 months to Aug 2025$37.8M
12 months to Aug 2026$43.6M
  • Canada
  • Poland
  • Dominican Republic
  • Mexico
  • All countries
Share of US imports
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PeriodCanadaPolandDominican RepublicMexico
12 months to Aug 201727.1%5.0%12.4%9.5%
12 months to Aug 201835.1%4.4%10.8%8.0%
12 months to Aug 201948.9%4.1%11.0%9.0%
12 months to Aug 202040.8%5.3%13.0%9.6%
12 months to Aug 202135.9%4.0%20.1%9.7%
12 months to Aug 202236.3%3.5%14.4%12.9%
12 months to Aug 202331.1%4.1%14.7%13.5%
12 months to Aug 202424.5%3.3%14.8%14.6%
12 months to Aug 202524.3%4.0%12.7%13.1%
12 months to Aug 202621.7%17.8%11.4%10.9%
Duty paid, % of value
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PeriodCanadaPolandDominican RepublicMexicoAll countries
12 months to Aug 20175.1%5.1%0.0%0.0%5.5%
12 months to Aug 20188.4%4.0%0.0%0.1%7.4%
12 months to Aug 20198.1%3.6%0.0%0.0%6.2%
12 months to Aug 20206.5%4.3%0.0%0.0%4.7%
12 months to Aug 20212.1%4.1%0.0%0.0%2.0%
12 months to Aug 20221.7%3.2%0.0%0.0%2.1%
12 months to Aug 20232.4%2.8%0.0%0.0%2.4%
12 months to Aug 20242.5%2.9%0.0%0.0%2.9%
12 months to Aug 20255.5%5.7%4.1%0.4%6.1%
12 months to Aug 202610.2%13.7%10.3%0.0%12.3%
PeriodUS importsDuty paidUS exports
12 months to Aug 2026$43.6M+15%12.3%+6.2 pts$42.9M−2.3%
12 months to Aug 2025$37.8M−0.8%6.1%+3.2 pts$43.9M−1.9%
12 months to Aug 2024$38.1M+6.8%2.9%+0.5 pts$44.8M+4.9%
12 months to Aug 2023$35.7M+12%2.4%+0.4 pts$42.7M−24%
12 months to Aug 2022$32.0M+29%2.1%0.0 pts$56.1M+6.0%
12 months to Aug 2021$24.8M+13%2.0%−2.6 pts$53.0M+59%
12 months to Aug 2020$22.1M−2.6%4.7%−1.6 pts$33.3M+3.5%
12 months to Aug 2019$22.7M+1.9%6.2%−1.2 pts$32.1M−2.5%
12 months to Aug 2018$22.3M+50%7.4%+1.9 pts$33.0M+11%
12 months to Aug 2017$14.9M5.5%$29.7M

Who supplies the US

August 2026. Small figures under each value are the change from August 2025. Landed cost by origin, below, adds freight and duty to the price.

CountryUS importsShareAverage priceDuty paidLast 13 months
Canada$764K26.7%+1.1 pts$2.62/kg−2.3%6.6%−5.9 pts
Dominican Republic$488K17.1%+7.4 pts$3.62/kg+3.8%12.5%+2.5 pts
Mexico$387K13.5%+3.9 pts$2.59/kg−1.9%0.0%0.0 pts
Poland$335K11.7%+7.9 pts$3.12/kg−35%8.2%−5.2 pts
Indonesia$154K5.4%−0.4 pts$1.06/kg−12%21.4%+1.3 pts
Venezuela$146K5.1%−1.9 pts$2.58/kg+5.5%17.3%−1.9 pts
Brazil$136K4.8%+2.0 pts$4.09/kg+14%40.5%+27.1 pts
Ecuador$121K4.2%−4.1 pts$1.51/kg−9.0%18.1%+0.2 pts
Other countries (15)$330K11.5%−11.9 pts$2.50/kg+51%9.2%−1.7 pts
All countries$2.9M100.0%$2.50/kg+16%9.6%−2.6 pts

The 3 largest suppliers had 50.9% of US imports over the last 12 months.

Landed cost by origin

What importers paid to land this product at a US port from each main supplier, June–August 2026: the price, freight and insurance to the first US port, and duty, per unit. Suppliers with 3% or more of these imports, cheapest landed first. Small figures under landed cost are the change from the same months a year earlier.

  • Price
  • Freight and insurance
  • Duty
CountryPriceFreight and insuranceDutyLanded costMake-up
Indonesia$1.14/kg$0.17/kg15.3% of price$0.24/kg20.7% of price$1.55/kg−13%
Ecuador$1.51/kg$0.08/kg5.1% of price$0.27/kg18.2% of price$1.86/kg−6.2%
Colombia$2.22/kg$0.12/kg5.5% of price$0.24/kg10.6% of price$2.58/kg+40%
Mexico$2.62/kg$0.01/kg0.3% of price$0.00/kg0.0% of price$2.62/kg+2.0%
Canada$2.48/kg$0.02/kg0.7% of price$0.14/kg5.6% of price$2.64/kg−5.1%
Venezuela$2.69/kg$0.21/kg7.7% of price$0.39/kg14.7% of price$3.29/kg+3.1%
Dominican Republic$3.56/kg$0.06/kg1.6% of price$0.39/kg11.0% of price$4.00/kg+0.9%
Poland$3.32/kg$0.63/kg19.0% of price$0.43/kg12.9% of price$4.39/kg−27%
All countries$2.54/kg$0.20/kg8.0% of price$0.28/kg10.8% of price$3.02/kg+15%

Landed at a US port, Indonesia was cheapest, at $1.55/kg: 16.5% below Ecuador.

Landed cost from Colombia rose 40% on a year earlier, to $2.58/kg, mostly on price: $1.63/kg then, $2.22/kg now.

How the market is shifting

Poland gained the most share: 17.8% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 4.0% in the 12 months before. Canada lost the most: 21.7%, down from 24.3%. The charts show September 2024 to August 2026 for the 4 largest suppliers over the last 12 months. Dotted lines mark lasting changes in duty paid, labelled with the supplier, or "Duty" when several moved; the tariff timeline lists each one with its notices.

  • Canada
  • Poland
  • Dominican Republic
  • Mexico
  • All countries
Share of US imports
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MonthCanadaPolandDominican RepublicMexico
September 202422.1%4.6%12.3%18.5%
October 202422.5%3.8%7.2%18.0%
November 202427.1%9.7%14.4%13.9%
December 202421.9%2.9%20.9%14.8%
January 202532.8%0.5%18.5%12.4%
February 202523.8%2.2%5.9%12.8%
March 202526.3%4.2%6.0%17.9%
April 202519.3%3.9%13.1%13.2%
May 202527.1%2.3%13.4%12.0%
June 202524.3%1.8%21.1%10.0%
July 202518.9%6.5%8.2%5.7%
August 202525.6%3.8%9.7%9.6%
September 202522.8%0.9%13.8%12.4%
October 202532.5%2.5%9.4%14.5%
November 202527.1%9.6%5.8%10.2%
December 202526.1%1.8%15.3%12.5%
January 202616.7%19.2%4.6%7.1%
February 202614.2%31.4%11.7%15.0%
March 202624.8%29.7%12.5%9.2%
April 202623.3%8.3%15.4%14.4%
May 202617.4%31.0%9.1%11.0%
June 202610.7%39.6%12.5%0.9%
July 202618.7%21.9%11.9%12.7%
August 202626.7%11.7%17.1%13.5%
Duty paid, % of value
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MonthCanadaPolandDominican RepublicMexicoAll countries
September 20241.2%2.1%0.0%0.0%3.0%
October 20240.9%2.3%0.0%0.0%2.9%
November 20242.3%2.1%0.0%0.0%2.3%
December 20241.7%2.8%0.0%0.1%2.3%
January 20252.6%4.2%0.0%0.0%2.4%
February 20251.6%2.6%0.0%0.0%2.7%
March 20259.2%2.2%0.0%3.1%4.9%
April 20254.3%3.9%7.4%0.0%5.9%
May 202510.6%13.0%10.0%0.0%10.7%
June 20259.1%13.3%10.0%0.0%10.6%
July 20259.1%11.9%10.0%0.0%12.3%
August 202512.5%13.5%10.0%0.0%12.2%
September 202513.1%15.0%10.0%0.0%13.7%
October 202512.9%15.0%10.0%0.0%12.7%
November 202522.5%15.0%10.0%0.0%17.1%
December 20258.5%15.0%10.0%0.0%12.1%
January 202613.3%15.0%10.0%0.0%14.8%
February 202610.4%14.6%10.0%0.0%13.2%
March 20267.9%13.4%10.0%0.0%11.1%
April 20265.0%13.4%10.0%0.0%9.8%
May 20264.4%13.7%10.0%0.0%10.5%
June 20263.9%13.6%10.0%0.0%12.4%
July 20265.5%13.5%10.4%0.0%10.2%
August 20266.6%8.2%12.5%0.0%9.6%

Tariff actions touching this product

When the duty paid on this product changed and stayed changed, for its main suppliers and all countries, newest first, with the Federal Register notices that named the product in the 3 months before. Rates are medians of the 4 months either side, less any usual seasonal swing. A change shows what happened to duty paid, not why; read each notice for what it did.

  1. March–April 2026 · Duty paid: Canada 11.8% → 4.5%, Indonesia 29.6% → 21.0%.
  2. August 2025 · Duty paid: Indonesia 17.6% → 29.4%.
  3. March–May 2025 · Duty paid: Canada 2.1% → 9.2%, Dominican Republic 0.0% → 10.0%, Indonesia 10.1% → 16.8%, all countries 2.8% → 10.7%.
  4. June 2020 · Duty paid: Canada 7.0% → 1.6%.

Where it enters the US

Main ports of entry over the 12 months to August 2026: US imports and share.

  1. Newark, NJ$10.3M · 23.5%
  2. San Juan, PR$5.8M · 13.2%
  3. Laredo, TX$4.7M · 10.8%
  4. Port Everglades, FL$4.7M · 10.8%
  5. Detroit, MI$4.0M · 9.1%

Where US exports go

US exports were $3.6M in August 2026, up 13% from August 2025, and $42.9M over the last 12 months, down 2.3% on the 12 months before. Fastest-growing market with 3% or more of US exports: Bahamas, up 35%.

MarketLast 12 monthsSharevs 12 months before
Mexico$24.8M57.8%+5.2%
Belize$3.2M7.5%−43%
Canada$3.0M7.0%−16%
Bahamas$1.7M4.0%+35%
Panama$1.5M3.5%+23%
Guatemala$1.2M2.9%+24%
Trinidad and Tobago$981K2.3%+8.4%
Dominican Republic$957K2.2%+14%
Other countries (38)$5.5M12.9%−4.7%
All countries$42.9M100.0%−2.3%

Markets abroad

Each country's own import figures for this product, from UN Comtrade: the 8 biggest importers outside the US in the latest year each has reported, what they bought from the US, and the change from the year before. Values usually include freight and insurance to the importer's border, so they run a little above US export figures. Countries report a year or more late; 124 have reported 2025 so far.

MarketImportsvs year beforeFrom the USUS share
United Kingdom$176.7Min 2025+1.8%$31K0.0%
France$135.6Min 2025+18%$4.9M3.6%
Hungary$99.6Min 2025+16%$00.0%
Germany$96.9Min 2025+27%$11K0.0%
Netherlands$73.5Min 2025−1.6%$25K0.0%
Czech Republic$71.6Min 2025+1.4%$00.0%
Belgium$67.9Min 2025+87%$49K0.1%
Spain$64.3Min 2025+5.1%$00.0%

The biggest market outside the US is the United Kingdom, which imported $176.7M of this product in 2025, under 0.1% of it from the US.

Of these, imports into Belgium grew fastest: up 87% from 2024 to 2025.

Other products under heading 1517: margarine;edible mix or preparations of animal, veg, microbial fats/oils/fractions of diff fats or oils of this chapter, exc edible fats oils fractions of 1516. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.

About these figures
  • Source: US Census Bureau international trade data, not seasonally adjusted, in US dollars. Retrieved November 3, 2026.
  • US imports are general imports at customs value, which excludes freight and insurance. Exports are at free-alongside-ship value.
  • Average price is customs value divided by quantity (kilograms), across all of the product's 10-digit lines.
  • Duty paid is the duty Census calculates on each country's imports for consumption, as a share of their value. It moves with tariff changes, exemptions and the mix of goods within the product.
  • Landed cost adds Census's import charges (freight, insurance and other costs of bringing the goods to the first US port) and calculated duty to the customs value, per unit, across the product's 10-digit lines. It leaves out antidumping and countervailing duties, customs fees and transport inland. Prices are averages across the goods within the code, so a lower one can mean cheaper goods, not the same goods for less.
  • Markets abroad are each country's imports as it reports them to UN Comtrade, in US dollars, usually including freight and insurance. Countries report a year or more late and in their own edition of the HS codes, so one still on an older edition is missing for codes that changed in 2022.
  • Census revises recent months, so figures can change slightly. These are estimates for research and planning, not customs or legal advice.

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