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

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In short

  • The US imported $1.5M of this product over the 12 months to August 2026, up 21% on the year before.
  • China is the largest supplier, with 43.4% of US imports; India is next, with 40.9%.
  • China is the cheapest main supplier before and after freight and duty, landing at $356.23/tonne.
  • Duty paid averaged 23.8% of the value of imports in August 2026, down 11.2 points on a year earlier.
  • China is gaining share: 62.5% over the last 12 months, up from 36.5%.
  • US exports were $142K over the last 12 months; the largest market is Canada, with 29.5%.

US imports, Aug 2026

$174K

↑ +157% vs Aug 2025

Last 12 months

$1.5M

↑ +21% vs the 12 months before

Average duty paid

23.8%

↓ −11.2 pts vs Aug 2025

Top supplier

China

43.4% 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.

Aug2025SepOctNovDecJan2026FebMarAprMayJunJulAugDuty ↓
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MonthUS imports
August 2025$68K
September 2025$134K
October 2025$67K
November 2025$69K
December 2025$64K
January 2026$102K
February 2026$98K
March 2026$161K
April 2026$146K
May 2026$228K
June 2026$125K
July 2026$103K
August 2026$174K

What changed

  • US imports were $174K in August 2026, up 69% from July 2026 and up 157% from August 2025.
  • Over the 12 months to August 2026 they totalled $1.5M, up 21% on the 12 months before.
  • Biggest moves in market share since July 2026: India up from 2.9% to 40.9%, Portugal down from 24.4% to 9.0%.
  • Average price from Portugal fell 75% since July 2026, to $400.46/tonne.
  • Duty paid on imports from Brazil rose from 10.0% to 37.5% of their value since July 2026.
  • Duty paid on imports from Portugal rose from 0.0% to 10.0% of their value since July 2026.

US trade by year

US imports were $1.5M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, down 65% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $142K, down 69%. 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.

2017201820192020202120222023202420252026Duty ↑Duty ↓
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PeriodUS imports
12 months to Aug 2017$4.2M
12 months to Aug 2018$4.3M
12 months to Aug 2019$4.0M
12 months to Aug 2020$2.6M
12 months to Aug 2021$3.3M
12 months to Aug 2022$2.2M
12 months to Aug 2023$2.3M
12 months to Aug 2024$1.5M
12 months to Aug 2025$1.2M
12 months to Aug 2026$1.5M
  • China
  • India
  • Brazil
  • Portugal
  • All countries
Share of US imports
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PeriodChinaIndiaBrazilPortugal
12 months to Aug 201756.8%25.8%3.7%0.0%
12 months to Aug 201847.1%33.7%2.9%1.3%
12 months to Aug 201935.0%37.0%8.3%0.0%
12 months to Aug 202022.4%38.0%8.8%1.4%
12 months to Aug 202120.8%46.4%13.1%0.8%
12 months to Aug 202220.3%54.9%18.2%0.0%
12 months to Aug 20239.5%70.9%15.4%0.9%
12 months to Aug 202418.3%58.9%19.0%1.5%
12 months to Aug 202536.5%35.9%19.7%5.7%
12 months to Aug 202662.5%23.2%8.2%3.7%
Duty paid, % of value
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PeriodChinaIndiaBrazilPortugalAll countries
12 months to Aug 20170.0%0.0%0.0%n/a0.0%
12 months to Aug 20180.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
12 months to Aug 201911.5%0.0%0.0%n/a4.0%
12 months to Aug 202025.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%5.7%
12 months to Aug 202124.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%5.1%
12 months to Aug 202223.7%0.0%0.0%n/a4.8%
12 months to Aug 202325.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%2.4%
12 months to Aug 202425.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%4.6%
12 months to Aug 202534.4%2.5%4.6%2.0%14.5%
12 months to Aug 202639.6%16.0%18.6%5.6%30.4%
PeriodUS importsDuty paidUS exports
12 months to Aug 2026$1.5M+21%30.4%+15.9 pts$142K+83%
12 months to Aug 2025$1.2M−17%14.5%+9.9 pts$78K−92%
12 months to Aug 2024$1.5M−35%4.6%+2.2 pts$993K+194%
12 months to Aug 2023$2.3M+1.2%2.4%−2.4 pts$338K−25%
12 months to Aug 2022$2.2M−32%4.8%−0.3 pts$451K+8.8%
12 months to Aug 2021$3.3M+29%5.1%−0.6 pts$415K−12%
12 months to Aug 2020$2.6M−37%5.7%+1.7 pts$471K−40%
12 months to Aug 2019$4.0M−5.1%4.0%+4.0 pts$790K−49%
12 months to Aug 2018$4.3M+2.5%0.0%0.0 pts$1.5M+234%
12 months to Aug 2017$4.2M0.0%$463K

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
China$75K43.4%−11.8 pts$248.27/tonne+32%37.5%−17.5 pts
India$71K40.9%−1.0 pts$988.78/tonne+85%10.0%0.0 pts
Portugal$16K9.0%new$400.46/tonne10.0%
Brazil$12K6.8%new$561.86/tonne37.5%
All countries$174K100.0%$399.27/tonne+50%23.8%−11.2 pts

The 3 largest suppliers had 93.9% 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
China$218.04/tonne$59.84/tonne27.4% of price$78.35/tonne35.9% of price$356.23/tonne−17%
Brazil$441.04/tonne$17.10/tonne3.9% of price$80.56/tonne18.3% of price$538.71/tonne+13%
India$685.81/tonne$122.98/tonne17.9% of price$68.59/tonne10.0% of price$877.38/tonne+54%
Portugal$742.44/tonne$125.09/tonne16.8% of price$28.40/tonne3.8% of price$895.93/tonne+117%
All countries$300.93/tonne$65.96/tonne21.9% of price$75.47/tonne25.1% of price$442.36/tonne−6.6%

Landed at a US port, China was cheapest, at $356.23/tonne: 33.9% below Brazil.

Landed cost from Portugal rose 117% on a year earlier, to $895.93/tonne, mostly on price: $331.84/tonne then, $742.44/tonne now.

How the market is shifting

China gained the most share: 62.5% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 36.5% in the 12 months before. India lost the most: 23.2%, down from 35.9%. 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.

  • China
  • India
  • Brazil
  • Portugal
  • All countries
Share of US imports
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MonthChinaIndiaBrazilPortugal
September 202451.4%48.6%0.0%0.0%
October 202437.1%56.2%0.0%0.0%
November 202413.5%26.0%47.0%13.5%
December 202442.1%29.9%11.2%0.0%
January 202540.4%44.9%14.7%0.0%
February 202546.8%25.2%0.0%28.1%
March 202546.5%44.8%0.0%8.7%
April 202575.2%24.8%0.0%0.0%
May 202521.1%67.0%0.0%11.9%
June 20258.8%19.5%68.3%3.4%
July 202541.1%32.5%23.2%3.2%
August 202555.1%41.9%0.0%0.0%
September 202526.4%48.3%0.0%1.7%
October 202560.5%12.5%27.0%0.0%
November 202574.9%25.1%0.0%0.0%
December 202595.9%4.1%0.0%0.0%
January 202685.3%14.7%0.0%0.0%
February 202691.4%4.8%0.0%0.0%
March 202688.3%11.7%0.0%0.0%
April 202657.1%29.2%13.7%0.0%
May 202642.6%33.1%19.4%4.9%
June 202678.9%13.6%7.5%0.0%
July 202655.2%2.9%17.5%24.4%
August 202643.4%40.9%6.8%9.0%
Duty paid, % of value
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MonthChinaIndiaBrazilPortugalAll countries
September 202414.4%0.0%n/an/a7.4%
October 202425.0%0.0%n/an/a9.3%
November 202417.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%2.3%
December 202425.0%0.0%0.0%n/a10.5%
January 202525.0%0.0%0.0%n/a10.1%
February 202525.0%0.0%n/a0.0%11.7%
March 202538.0%0.0%n/a0.0%17.7%
April 202548.4%0.0%n/an/a36.4%
May 202550.1%4.2%n/a10.0%14.5%
June 202555.0%10.0%10.0%10.0%14.0%
July 202554.1%10.0%10.0%10.0%28.2%
August 202555.0%10.0%n/an/a35.0%
September 202555.0%11.9%n/a15.0%23.0%
October 202555.0%50.0%50.0%n/a53.0%
November 202548.5%50.0%n/an/a48.9%
December 202545.0%50.0%n/an/a45.2%
January 202645.0%50.0%n/an/a45.7%
February 202639.1%50.0%n/an/a38.7%
March 202634.5%10.0%n/an/a31.6%
April 202635.0%10.0%10.0%n/a24.3%
May 202635.0%10.0%10.0%10.0%20.6%
June 202635.0%10.0%10.0%n/a29.7%
July 202635.5%10.0%10.0%0.0%21.6%
August 202637.5%10.0%37.5%10.0%23.8%

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. May 2026 · Duty paid: all countries 32.1% → 22.4%.
  2. July 2019 · Duty paid: all countries 2.4% → 7.4%.
  3. November 2018 · Duty paid: China 0.0% → 9.7%, all countries 0.0% → 5.6%.

Where it enters the US

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

  1. Los Angeles, CA$338K · 23.0%
  2. Newark, NJ$271K · 18.4%
  3. Houston, TX$160K · 10.9%
  4. Norfolk-Newport News, VA$144K · 9.8%
  5. Baltimore, MD$105K · 7.2%

Where US exports go

US exports were $7K in August 2026, down 44% from August 2025, and $142K over the last 12 months, up 83% on the 12 months before.

MarketLast 12 monthsSharevs 12 months before
Canada$42K29.5%−34%
Barbados$40K28.2%new
United Kingdom$18K12.9%new
Jamaica$18K12.7%new
Bahamas$11K7.7%new
China$9K6.2%new
France$4K2.8%new
All countries$142K100.0%+83%

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; 91 have reported 2025 so far.

MarketImportsvs year beforeFrom the USUS share
Italy$6.2Min 2025+11%$00.0%
Denmark$5.1Min 2025+130%$00.0%
Portugal$5.0Min 2025−19%$720.0%
France$5.0Min 2025+9.1%$2740.0%
United Kingdom$3.8Min 2025−1.4%$00.0%
Germany$3.7Min 2025+11%$3K0.1%
Saudi Arabia$2.9Min 2025+15%$4250.0%
Belgium$2.8Min 2025−11%$00.0%

The biggest market outside the US is Italy, which imported $6.2M of this product in 2025, none of it from the US.

Of these, imports into Denmark grew fastest: up 130% from 2024 to 2025.

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 (tonnes), 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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