Esters of methacrylic acid

US trade by year

US imports were $131.5M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, down 2.3% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $263.4M, down 17%. 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.

• Germany
• Korea, South
• Japan
• China
• 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 64.0% 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, Germany was cheapest, at $3.16/kg: 4.0% below Korea, South.

Korea, South had the lowest price before freight and duty, $2.69/kg, but they added 22.3% to it.

Landed cost from United Kingdom rose 37% on a year earlier, to $7.08/kg, mostly on price: $4.33/kg then, $5.88/kg now.

How the market is shifting

China gained the most share: 12.3% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 8.0% in the 12 months before. Taiwan lost the most: 0.9%, down from 7.2%. 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.

• Germany
• Korea, South
• Japan
• China
• 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 2026 · Duty paid: China 56.3% → 43.6%.
   • Certain Monomers and Oligomers From Taiwan: Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and Final Affirmative Critical Circumstances DeterminationJan 26, 2026 · International Trade Administration
   • Certain Monomers and Oligomers From the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances, in Part, and Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional MeasuresJan 5, 2026 · International Trade Administration
2. April–June 2025 · Duty paid: Germany 3.7% → 13.7%, Korea, South 0.8% → 10.5%, Japan 3.7% → 13.5%, China 28.7% → 52.2%, all countries 7.4% → 16.1%.
   • Multifunctional Acrylate and Methacrylate Monomers and Oligomers From South Korea and TaiwanMay 16, 2025 · International Trade Commission
   • Certain Monomers and Oligomers From Taiwan: Initiation of Countervailing Duty InvestigationApr 23, 2025 · International Trade Administration
   • Certain Monomers and Oligomers From the Republic of Korea and Taiwan: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value InvestigationsApr 23, 2025 · International Trade Administration
3. May 2019 · Duty paid: China 13.2% → 26.4%.
4. October 2018 · Duty paid: China 3.6% → 13.5%.
   • 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. These are the 5 newest of 9. Search the Federal Register for 2916.14

• Certain Monomers and Oligomers From the Republic of Korea: Antidumping Duty OrderJul 28, 2026 · International Trade Administration
• Multifunctional Acrylate and Methacrylate Monomers and Oligomers From South Korea; DeterminationJul 16, 2026 · International Trade Commission
• Certain Monomers and Oligomers from the Republic of Korea: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Final Affirmative Determination of Critical CircumstancesMay 27, 2026 · International Trade Administration
• Certain Monomers and Oligomers From Taiwan: Antidumping Duty Order and Countervailing Duty OrderMar 11, 2026 · International Trade Administration
• Multifunctional Acrylate and Methacrylate Monomers and Oligomers (MAMMOs) From Taiwan; DeterminationsMar 9, 2026 · International Trade Commission

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; 98 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 the Netherlands, which imported $233.7M of this product in 2025, 3.9% of that from the US.

The US supplies 48.9% of imports into Belgium, but under 10% into the Netherlands, Malaysia and India.

Of these, imports into Belgium grew fastest: up 42% from 2024 to 2025.

Related products

Other products under heading 2916: acyclic (unsaturated) and cyclic monocarboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides etc.; their halogenated, sulfonated etc. derivatives. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.