Palmitic acid, stearic acid, their salts and esters

US trade by year

US imports were $93.6M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, up 32% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $71.5M, up 19%. 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.

• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• India
• Canada
• 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 66.8% 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, Indonesia was cheapest, at $2.01/kg: 29.2% below Malaysia.

Landed cost from Singapore rose 24% on a year earlier, to $3.14/kg, mostly on price: $2.05/kg then, $2.54/kg now.

How the market is shifting

Canada gained the most share: 8.1% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 5.0% in the 12 months before. Singapore lost the most: 3.8%, down from 8.6%. 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.

• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• India
• Canada
• 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. February–March 2026 · Duty paid: Indonesia 23.6% → 15.0%, Malaysia 24.0% → 15.0%, India 55.0% → 15.0%, all countries 22.1% → 13.7%.
   • Certain Fatty Acids From Indonesia and Malaysia: Initiation of Countervailing Duty InvestigationsMar 13, 2026 · International Trade Administration
   • Certain Fatty Acids From Indonesia and Malaysia: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value InvestigationsMar 13, 2026 · International Trade Administration
   • Fatty Acids From Indonesia and Malaysia; Institution of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Investigations and Scheduling of Preliminary Phase InvestigationsFeb 2, 2026 · International Trade Commission
2. September–October 2025 · Duty paid: Indonesia 2.4% → 23.1%, India 14.9% → 55.0%, all countries 9.2% → 22.1%.
3. April–May 2025 · Duty paid: Malaysia 5.0% → 15.0%, India 5.0% → 13.1%, Singapore 0.1% → 10.3%.

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. These are the 5 newest of 9. Search the Federal Register for 2915.70

• Fatty Acids From Indonesia and Malaysia; Scheduling of the Final Phase of Countervailing Duty and Antidumping Duty InvestigationsOct 14, 2026 · International Trade Commission
• Certain Fatty Acids From Malaysia: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional MeasuresSep 22, 2026 · International Trade Administration
• Certain Fatty Acids From Indonesia: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances, in Part, Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional MeasuresSep 22, 2026 · International Trade Administration
• Certain Fatty Acids From Indonesia: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, and Alignment of Final Determination With Final Antidumping Duty DeterminationJul 23, 2026 · International Trade Administration
• Certain Fatty Acids From Malaysia: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and Alignment of Final Determination With Final Antidumping Duty DeterminationJul 23, 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; 109 have reported 2025 so far.

The biggest market outside the US is China, which imported $87.8M of this product in 2025, 1.5% of that from the US.

The US supplies 30.8% of imports into Canada, but under 10% into China, Germany and Malaysia.

Of these, imports into Canada grew fastest: up 32% from 2024 to 2025.

Related products

Other products under heading 2915: saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulfonated etc. derivatives. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.