Quartzite

US trade by year

US imports were $14.3M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, down 42% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $933K, up 40%. 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
• Brazil
• Italy
• Portugal
• All countries

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.

The 3 largest suppliers had 91.6% 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

Landed at a US port, Canada was cheapest, at $253.33/tonne: 66.1% below China.

Landed cost from Canada fell 21% on a year earlier, to $253.33/tonne, mostly on price: $284.82/tonne then, $218.30/tonne now.

How the market is shifting

Canada gained the most share: 85.8% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 43.5% in the 12 months before. Brazil lost the most: 3.4%, down from 39.6%. 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
• Brazil
• Italy
• Portugal
• All countries

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. June 2025 · Duty paid: Brazil 0.0% → 8.9%.
2. June 2019 · Duty paid: China 10.0% → 25.0%.
   • Certain Quartz Surface Products From India and the Republic of Turkey: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value InvestigationsJun 3, 2019 · International Trade Administration
   • Certain Quartz Surface Products From India and the Republic of Turkey: Initiation of Countervailing Duty InvestigationsJun 3, 2019 · International Trade Administration
   • Certain Quartz Surface Products From the People's Republic of China: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, and Final Affirmative Determination of Critical CircumstancesMay 23, 2019 · International Trade Administration
3. October 2018 · Duty paid: China 0.0% → 9.9%.
   • Certain Quartz Surface Products From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, and Alignment of Final Determination With Final Antidumping Duty DeterminationSep 21, 2018 · International Trade Administration
   • Request for Comments Concerning Proposed Modification of Action Pursuant to Section 301: China's Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, and InnovationJul 17, 2018 · Office of the US Trade Representative

Federal Register notices from the last 12 months that list this product's tariff codes. A notice can add a duty, exclude products from one or only mention them, so read each for what it changes. Search the Federal Register for 2506.20

• Certain Quartz Surface Products From India and the Republic of Türkiye: Continuation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty OrdersJan 15, 2026 · International Trade Administration

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; 104 have reported 2025 so far.

The biggest market outside the US is China, which imported $108.6M of this product in 2025, under 0.1% of it from the US.

Of these, imports into Germany grew fastest: up 93% from 2024 to 2025.

Related products

Other products under heading 2506: quartz (other than natural sands); quartzite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut into blocks or slabs of a rectangular or square shape. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.