Chemical woodpulp, dissolving grades

US trade by year

US imports were $174.1M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, up 15% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $735.9M, down 20%. 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.

• Brazil
• South Africa
• Norway
• France
• 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, Austria was cheapest, at $518.58/component tonne: 24.6% below Norway.

Landed cost from South Africa fell 66% on a year earlier, to $2,647/component tonne, mostly on price: $6,483/component tonne then, $2,245/component tonne now.

How the market is shifting

South Africa gained the most share: 18.2% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 10.5% in the 12 months before. Brazil lost the most: 62.6%, down from 78.1%. 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.

• Brazil
• South Africa
• Norway
• France
• 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. June 2026 · Duty paid: Norway 7.2% → 1.1%.
   • High Purity Dissolving Pulp From Brazil and Norway; Scheduling of the Final Phase of Countervailing Duty and Antidumping Duty InvestigationsJun 10, 2026 · International Trade Commission
   • Notice of Determination and Request for Comments Concerning Action Pursuant to Section 301: Brazil's Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Digital Trade and Electronic Payment Services; Unfair, Preferential Tariffs; Anti-Corruption Enforcement; Intellectual Property Protection; Ethanol Market Access; and Illegal DeforestationJun 4, 2026 · Office of the US Trade Representative
   • High Purity Dissolving Pulp From Norway: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional MeasuresMay 27, 2026 · International Trade Administration
2. January–March 2026 · Duty paid: South Africa 30.0% → 10.0%, Norway 14.9% → 7.1%.
   • High Purity Dissolving Pulp From Brazil: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and Alignment of Final Determination With Final Antidumping Duty DeterminationMar 25, 2026 · International Trade Administration
3. April–September 2025 · Duty paid: Brazil 0.0% → 10.0%, South Africa 0.0% → 30.0%, Norway 4.1% → 12.4%, all countries 0.0% → 9.7%.
   • High Purity Dissolving Pulp From Brazil and Norway; DeterminationsSep 30, 2025 · International Trade Commission
   • High Purity Dissolving Pulp From Brazil: Initiation of Countervailing Duty InvestigationSep 8, 2025 · International Trade Administration
   • High Purity Dissolving Pulp From Brazil and Norway: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value InvestigationsSep 8, 2025 · International Trade Administration

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 8. Search the Federal Register for 4702.00

• High Purity Dissolving Pulp From Norway: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair ValueOct 16, 2026 · International Trade Administration
• High Purity Dissolving Pulp From Brazil: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair ValueOct 16, 2026 · International Trade Administration
• High Purity Dissolving Pulp From Brazil: Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty DeterminationOct 16, 2026 · International Trade Administration
• High Purity Dissolving Pulp From Brazil and Norway; Scheduling of the Final Phase of Countervailing Duty and Antidumping Duty InvestigationsJun 10, 2026 · International Trade Commission
• Notice of Determination and Request for Comments Concerning Action Pursuant to Section 301: Brazil's Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Digital Trade and Electronic Payment Services; Unfair, Preferential Tariffs; Anti-Corruption Enforcement; Intellectual Property Protection; Ethanol Market Access; and Illegal DeforestationJun 4, 2026 · Office of the US Trade Representative

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.

The biggest market outside the US is China, which imported $4.21B of this product in 2025, 5.0% of that from the US.

The US supplies 38.5% of imports into Indonesia and 71.5% into Japan, but under 10% into China, India and Malaysia.

Of these, imports into Malaysia grew fastest: up 25% from 2024 to 2025.