Silk yarn (other than spun from silk waste) not put up for retail sale

US trade by year

US imports were $11.8M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, up 186% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $124K, down 45%. 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
• Italy
• Switzerland
• India
• 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 93.4% 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, China was cheapest, at $43.81/kg: 52.8% below India.

Landed cost from China fell 17% on a year earlier, to $43.81/kg, mostly on duty: $18.56/kg then, $11.19/kg now.

How the market is shifting

Italy gained the most share: 23.9% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 13.3% in the 12 months before. Mexico lost the most: 0.1%, down from 10.1%. 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.

• China
• Italy
• Switzerland
• India
• 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: all countries 15.6% → 26.2%.
2. December 2025–February 2026 · Duty paid: China 44.3% → 29.7%, all countries 47.8% → 13.1%.
   • Implementing Certain Tariff-Related Elements of the Framework for a United States-Switzerland-Liechtenstein Agreement on Fair, Balanced, and Reciprocal TradeDec 18, 2025 · International Trade Administration
   • Implementing Certain Tariff-Related Elements of the U.S.-EU Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced TradeSep 25, 2025 · Office of the US Trade Representative
3. May 2025 · Duty paid: China 0.3% → 54.6%, all countries 2.4% → 47.8%.

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 5004.00

• Implementing Certain Tariff-Related Elements of the Framework for a United States-Switzerland-Liechtenstein Agreement on Fair, Balanced, and Reciprocal TradeDec 18, 2025 · 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; 81 have reported 2025 so far.

The biggest market outside the US is Italy, which imported $102.1M of this product in 2025, none of it from the US.

Of these, imports into India grew fastest: up 31% from 2024 to 2025.