Mullite

US trade by year

US imports were $10.3M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, up 63% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $10.0M, up 0.9%. 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
• China
• Germany
• Hungary
• 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 91.3% 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 $1,619/tonne: 4.8% below China.

China had the lowest price before freight and duty, $913.50/tonne, but they added 86.3% to it.

Landed cost from Canada rose 19% on a year earlier, to $1,619/tonne, mostly on price: $1,348/tonne then, $1,604/tonne now.

How the market is shifting

Canada gained the most share: 63.5% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 53.3% in the 12 months before. Germany lost the most: 13.5%, down from 19.7%. 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
• China
• Germany
• Hungary
• 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. January–February 2026 · Duty paid: China 55.0% → 40.0%, all countries 19.3% → 7.4%.
2. May–July 2025 · Duty paid: China 25.0% → 55.0%, Germany 0.0% → 13.1%, all countries 3.8% → 14.8%.
3. December 2024 · Duty paid: all countries 9.2% → 2.1%.
4. July 2022 · Duty paid: all countries 8.3% → 2.3%.
5. March 2021 · Duty paid: all countries 1.8% → 8.4%.
6. September 2020 · Duty paid: all countries 0.6% → 9.0%.

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; 62 have reported 2025 so far. Where a country's figure for imports from the US is under half or over double what the US recorded exporting there that year, the US figure is shown under it.

The biggest market outside the US is Poland, which imported $30.4M of this product in 2025, 0.2% of that from the US.

The US supplies 98.8% of imports into Mexico, but under 10% into Poland, South Korea and India.

Related products

Other products under heading 2508: clays not elsewhere specified (not including expanded clays of heading 6806), andalusite, kyanite and sillimanite (calcined or not); mullite; chamotte or dinas earths. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.