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

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D- or dl-pantothenic acid (vitamin b5) and its derivatives

In short

  • The US imported $37.7M of this product over the 12 months to August 2026, down 25% on the year before.
  • China is the largest supplier, with 65.6% of US imports; United Kingdom is next, with 28.1%.
  • China is the cheapest main supplier before and after freight and duty, landing at $7.59/kg.
  • Duty paid averaged 0.3% of the value of imports in August 2026, down 6.5 points on a year earlier.
  • United Kingdom is gaining share: 36.7% over the last 12 months, up from 23.1%.
  • 4 Federal Register notices named this product's tariff codes in the last 12 months.

US imports, Aug 2026

$2.0M

↑ +39% vs Aug 2025

Last 12 months

$37.7M

↓ −25% vs the 12 months before

Average duty paid

0.3%

↓ −6.5 pts vs Aug 2025

Top supplier

China

65.6% 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 ↓Duty ↓
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MonthUS imports
August 2025$1.5M
September 2025$2.9M
October 2025$2.1M
November 2025$1.9M
December 2025$2.9M
January 2026$3.0M
February 2026$2.1M
March 2026$3.4M
April 2026$3.6M
May 2026$5.1M
June 2026$5.3M
July 2026$3.2M
August 2026$2.0M

What changed

  • US imports were $2.0M in August 2026, down 36% from July 2026 and up 39% from August 2025.
  • Over the 12 months to August 2026 they totalled $37.7M, down 25% on the 12 months before.
  • Biggest moves in market share since July 2026: United Kingdom up from 9.8% to 28.1%, China down from 79.4% to 65.6%.
  • Average price from Germany rose 46% since July 2026, to $15.69/kg.
  • Duty paid by the main suppliers held within 2 points of July 2026.

US trade by year

US imports were $37.7M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, down 56% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $7.3M, up 0.4%. 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 ↑
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PeriodUS imports
12 months to Aug 2017$86.5M
12 months to Aug 2018$162.0M
12 months to Aug 2019$84.3M
12 months to Aug 2020$126.6M
12 months to Aug 2021$68.2M
12 months to Aug 2022$81.1M
12 months to Aug 2023$75.7M
12 months to Aug 2024$50.5M
12 months to Aug 2025$50.2M
12 months to Aug 2026$37.7M
  • China
  • United Kingdom
  • Germany
  • Switzerland
  • All countries
Share of US imports
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PeriodChinaUnited KingdomGermanySwitzerland
12 months to Aug 201781.5%12.8%5.5%0.0%
12 months to Aug 201884.7%10.5%4.7%0.0%
12 months to Aug 201972.4%21.6%5.8%0.1%
12 months to Aug 202076.8%17.0%6.1%0.0%
12 months to Aug 202158.8%30.9%9.4%0.1%
12 months to Aug 202273.0%22.1%4.5%0.1%
12 months to Aug 202374.1%19.5%6.1%0.0%
12 months to Aug 202472.8%20.2%6.6%0.0%
12 months to Aug 202569.2%23.1%6.9%0.4%
12 months to Aug 202653.0%36.7%6.2%3.6%
Duty paid, % of value
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PeriodChinaUnited KingdomGermanySwitzerlandAll 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 20190.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
12 months to Aug 20200.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
12 months to Aug 20210.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
12 months to Aug 20220.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
12 months to Aug 20230.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
12 months to Aug 20240.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
12 months to Aug 20255.7%0.0%0.1%0.0%4.0%
12 months to Aug 20264.8%0.0%0.0%0.0%2.6%
PeriodUS importsDuty paidUS exports
12 months to Aug 2026$37.7M−25%2.6%−1.4 pts$7.3M−9.4%
12 months to Aug 2025$50.2M−0.5%4.0%+4.0 pts$8.1M−15%
12 months to Aug 2024$50.5M−33%0.0%0.0 pts$9.5M−51%
12 months to Aug 2023$75.7M−6.6%0.0%0.0 pts$19.4M+21%
12 months to Aug 2022$81.1M+19%0.0%0.0 pts$16.0M−5.6%
12 months to Aug 2021$68.2M−46%0.0%0.0 pts$16.9M−37%
12 months to Aug 2020$126.6M+50%0.0%0.0 pts$27.0M−1.8%
12 months to Aug 2019$84.3M−48%0.0%0.0 pts$27.5M+20%
12 months to Aug 2018$162.0M+87%0.0%0.0 pts$22.9M+213%
12 months to Aug 2017$86.5M0.0%$7.3M

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$1.3M65.6%+31.9 pts$6.02/kg−4.2%0.4%−19.7 pts
United Kingdom$568K28.1%−1.3 pts$14.85/kg+5.5%0.1%+0.1 pts
Germany$93K4.6%−30.8 pts$15.69/kg+29%0.0%0.0 pts
Italy$13K0.7%newn/an/a
Ireland$10K0.5%new$392.00/kg0.0%
France$9K0.4%new$28.24/kg0.0%
Israel$2K0.1%new$23.47/kg0.0%
All countries$2.0M100.0%$7.58/kg−20%0.3%−6.5 pts

The 3 largest suppliers had 96.0% 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
CountryPriceFreight and insuranceDutyLanded costMake-up
China$7.28/kg$0.29/kg3.9% of price$0.02/kg0.2% of price$7.59/kg−22%
Germany$11.55/kg$0.29/kg2.5% of price$0.00/kg0.0% of price$11.83/kg+4.4%
United Kingdom$14.64/kg$0.13/kg0.9% of price$0.00/kg0.0% of price$14.77/kg+11%
All countries$8.54/kg$0.26/kg3.0% of price$0.01/kg0.2% of price$8.81/kg−20%

Landed at a US port, China was cheapest, at $7.59/kg: 35.9% below Germany.

Landed cost from China fell 22% on a year earlier, to $7.59/kg, mostly on duty: $1.54/kg then, $0.02/kg now.

How the market is shifting

United Kingdom gained the most share: 36.7% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 23.1% in the 12 months before. China lost the most: 53.0%, down from 69.2%. 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.

  • China
  • United Kingdom
  • Germany
  • Switzerland
  • All countries
Share of US imports
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MonthChinaUnited KingdomGermanySwitzerland
September 202476.4%8.3%15.2%0.1%
October 202474.0%22.2%3.3%0.0%
November 202472.5%23.8%3.1%0.0%
December 202474.4%17.9%7.1%0.2%
January 202588.8%9.5%1.5%0.0%
February 202573.4%22.6%2.6%0.6%
March 202549.9%42.7%4.9%2.5%
April 202578.2%19.8%1.9%0.0%
May 202565.3%16.4%17.1%0.0%
June 202553.6%22.1%24.0%0.0%
July 202537.3%59.7%1.6%0.4%
August 202533.7%29.4%35.4%1.5%
September 202532.1%53.2%13.1%0.7%
October 202530.8%58.2%9.2%1.0%
November 202552.8%15.9%11.3%20.0%
December 202572.2%23.1%3.4%0.0%
January 202659.1%33.8%7.1%0.0%
February 202648.6%42.5%6.7%2.0%
March 202649.0%39.3%4.1%7.0%
April 202644.9%43.4%6.3%5.0%
May 202639.5%50.8%6.3%3.4%
June 202661.7%33.1%5.2%0.0%
July 202679.4%9.8%1.4%9.5%
August 202665.6%28.1%4.6%0.0%
Duty paid, % of value
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MonthChinaUnited KingdomGermanySwitzerlandAll countries
September 20240.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
October 20240.0%0.0%0.0%n/a0.0%
November 20240.0%0.0%0.0%n/a0.0%
December 20240.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
January 20250.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
February 20250.5%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.3%
March 202515.8%0.0%0.0%0.0%7.9%
April 202517.0%0.0%0.0%n/a13.3%
May 202519.1%0.0%0.7%n/a12.7%
June 202519.0%0.0%0.0%n/a10.2%
July 202520.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%7.5%
August 202520.2%0.0%0.0%0.0%6.8%
September 202520.2%0.0%0.0%0.0%6.5%
October 202520.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%6.2%
November 202511.7%0.0%0.0%0.0%6.2%
December 202510.0%0.0%0.0%n/a7.2%
January 202610.0%0.0%0.0%n/a5.9%
February 20269.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%4.7%
March 20260.5%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.3%
April 20260.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.1%
May 20260.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.1%
June 20260.3%0.0%0.0%n/a0.2%
July 20260.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
August 20260.4%0.1%0.0%n/a0.3%

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 15.9% → 5.1%, all countries 6.2% → 0.2%.
  2. August 2025 · Duty paid: all countries 11.4% → 6.3%.
  3. March–April 2025 · Duty paid: China 0.2% → 19.1%, all countries 0.0% → 11.4%.

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 2936.24

Where it enters the US

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

  1. Chester, PA$13.4M · 35.5%
  2. Los Angeles, CA$12.2M · 32.3%
  3. Newark, NJ$4.5M · 12.0%
  4. Long Beach, CA$1.7M · 4.6%
  5. Norfolk-Newport News, VA$1.1M · 3.0%

Where US exports go

US exports were $592K in August 2026, down 0.9% from August 2025, and $7.3M over the last 12 months, down 9.4% on the 12 months before. Fastest-growing market with 3% or more of US exports: Canada, up 10%.

MarketLast 12 monthsSharevs 12 months before
Canada$6.1M83.4%+10%
United Arab Emirates$363K4.9%−45%
Mexico$128K1.7%−47%
Korea, South$120K1.6%+227%
United Kingdom$109K1.5%+375%
China$85K1.2%−84%
Colombia$66K0.9%−38%
Netherlands$46K0.6%−62%
Other countries (19)$300K4.1%−61%
All countries$7.3M100.0%−9.4%

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. 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.

MarketImportsvs year beforeFrom the USUS share
Netherlands$27.3Min 2025−18%$109K0.4%
Germany$26.1Min 2025+18%$79K0.3%
China$16.1Min 2025+11%$43K0.3%
Korea, South$15.9Min 2025+0.5%$8K0.1%
Brazil$14.5Min 2025−16%$325K2.2%
France$12.9Min 2025−9.9%$3K0.0%
Canada$11.6Min 2025+26%$1.5MUS records $5.6M13.4%
India$11.4Min 2025+32%$58K0.5%

The biggest market outside the US is the Netherlands, which imported $27.3M of this product in 2025, 0.4% of that from the US.

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

Other products under heading 2936: provitamins and vitamins, natural or synthetic, derivatives thereof used primarily as vitamins, and intermixtures of the foregoing. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.

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 (kilograms), 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.
  • Tariff notices are from the Federal Register, matched to this product by the HTS numbers in their text.
  • 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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