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

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Cotton yarn not elsewhere specified, 85% or more by weight of cotton, not put up for retail sale, single uncombed yarn, over 14 nm but not over 43 nm

In short

  • The US imported $10.3M of this product over the 12 months to August 2026, down 37% on the year before.
  • Mexico is the largest supplier, with 80.3% of US imports; Pakistan is next, with 10.3%.
  • India is the cheapest main supplier before and after freight and duty, landing at $3.49/kg.
  • Duty paid averaged 2.8% of the value of imports in August 2026, down 4.9 points on a year earlier.
  • Mexico is gaining share: 63.8% over the last 12 months, up from 46.8%.
  • US exports were $476.7M over the last 12 months; the largest market is Honduras, with 64.5%.

US imports, Aug 2026

$1.2M

↑ +19% vs Aug 2025

Last 12 months

$10.3M

↓ −37% vs the 12 months before

Average duty paid

2.8%

↓ −4.9 pts vs Aug 2025

Top supplier

Mexico

80.3% 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 ↓
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MonthUS imports
August 2025$965K
September 2025$832K
October 2025$841K
November 2025$845K
December 2025$588K
January 2026$1.0M
February 2026$674K
March 2026$652K
April 2026$1.2M
May 2026$1.2M
June 2026$705K
July 2026$681K
August 2026$1.2M

What changed

  • US imports were $1.2M in August 2026, up 69% from July 2026 and up 19% from August 2025.
  • Over the 12 months to August 2026 they totalled $10.3M, down 37% on the 12 months before.
  • Biggest moves in market share since July 2026: Mexico up from 70.6% to 80.3%, Canada down from 9.0% to 0.0%.
  • Average price from Pakistan rose 14% since July 2026, to $3.28/kg.
  • Duty paid on imports from India rose from 5.2% to 15.2% of their value since July 2026.

US trade by year

US imports were $10.3M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, up 5.9% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $476.7M, down 26%. 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$9.8M
12 months to Aug 2018$12.7M
12 months to Aug 2019$15.8M
12 months to Aug 2020$12.5M
12 months to Aug 2021$21.4M
12 months to Aug 2022$36.8M
12 months to Aug 2023$18.5M
12 months to Aug 2024$19.7M
12 months to Aug 2025$16.5M
12 months to Aug 2026$10.3M
  • Mexico
  • Pakistan
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • All countries
Share of US imports
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PeriodMexicoPakistanIndiaIndonesia
12 months to Aug 201733.5%55.1%6.3%1.6%
12 months to Aug 201837.6%50.3%9.3%0.5%
12 months to Aug 201937.2%52.1%7.6%0.8%
12 months to Aug 202016.2%67.8%8.2%0.7%
12 months to Aug 202128.2%38.3%14.1%4.2%
12 months to Aug 202231.2%41.7%12.8%6.9%
12 months to Aug 202329.7%49.6%12.2%2.1%
12 months to Aug 202444.4%37.6%9.1%3.9%
12 months to Aug 202546.8%36.8%7.0%4.7%
12 months to Aug 202663.8%19.6%6.8%2.7%
Duty paid, % of value
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PeriodMexicoPakistanIndiaIndonesiaAll countries
12 months to Aug 20170.1%5.2%5.3%5.2%3.5%
12 months to Aug 20180.0%5.2%5.2%5.2%3.3%
12 months to Aug 20190.0%5.3%5.4%6.5%3.4%
12 months to Aug 20200.0%5.3%5.2%5.2%4.6%
12 months to Aug 20210.0%5.2%5.2%5.2%3.5%
12 months to Aug 20220.0%5.2%5.3%5.2%3.6%
12 months to Aug 20230.0%5.2%5.3%5.2%3.9%
12 months to Aug 20240.1%5.2%5.2%5.5%3.4%
12 months to Aug 20250.0%7.0%8.8%7.2%4.4%
12 months to Aug 20260.1%18.3%23.6%16.5%7.8%
PeriodUS importsDuty paidUS exports
12 months to Aug 2026$10.3M−37%7.8%+3.4 pts$476.7M−6.0%
12 months to Aug 2025$16.5M−16%4.4%+1.0 pts$507.2M−10%
12 months to Aug 2024$19.7M+6.2%3.4%−0.5 pts$564.8M−15%
12 months to Aug 2023$18.5M−50%3.9%+0.3 pts$665.5M−8.4%
12 months to Aug 2022$36.8M+72%3.6%+0.1 pts$726.3M+39%
12 months to Aug 2021$21.4M+72%3.5%−1.1 pts$521.8M+23%
12 months to Aug 2020$12.5M−21%4.6%+1.2 pts$423.8M−33%
12 months to Aug 2019$15.8M+24%3.4%+0.1 pts$628.5M−6.8%
12 months to Aug 2018$12.7M+30%3.3%−0.2 pts$674.5M+4.5%
12 months to Aug 2017$9.8M3.5%$645.6M

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
Mexico$926K80.3%+38.7 pts$3.91/kg−6.9%0.0%0.0 pts
Pakistan$119K10.3%−19.8 pts$3.28/kg+8.5%15.2%0.0 pts
Indonesia$53K4.6%new$2.77/kg15.2%
India$36K3.1%−4.5 pts$2.73/kg+5.4%15.2%−0.4 pts
Honduras$14K1.3%new$3.23/kg0.0%
Vietnam$5K0.4%+0.3 pts$6.05/kg+6.1%19.0%−7.5 pts
All countries$1.2M100.0%$3.71/kg+1.6%2.8%−4.9 pts

The 3 largest suppliers had 90.2% 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
India$2.79/kg$0.31/kg11.1% of price$0.39/kg14.0% of price$3.49/kg−2.9%
Pakistan$3.16/kg$0.17/kg5.4% of price$0.48/kg15.2% of price$3.81/kg−8.4%
Mexico$3.88/kg$0.06/kg1.6% of price$0.00/kg0.0% of price$3.94/kg−3.6%
All countries$3.71/kg$0.11/kg3.0% of price$0.12/kg3.1% of price$3.94/kg−2.9%

Landed at a US port, India was cheapest, at $3.49/kg: 8.3% below Pakistan.

How the market is shifting

Mexico gained the most share: 63.8% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 46.8% in the 12 months before. Pakistan lost the most: 19.6%, down from 36.8%. 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.

  • Mexico
  • Pakistan
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • All countries
Share of US imports
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MonthMexicoPakistanIndiaIndonesia
September 202451.9%37.1%3.8%5.2%
October 202446.2%43.5%0.2%8.9%
November 202435.6%47.2%9.0%4.0%
December 202420.5%66.4%8.3%3.7%
January 202558.4%33.1%2.4%5.2%
February 202552.3%24.5%15.2%7.1%
March 202547.3%39.8%7.9%0.0%
April 202526.2%40.6%4.1%9.6%
May 202584.1%10.3%0.2%3.3%
June 202572.3%8.4%10.6%8.1%
July 202535.1%46.4%13.5%3.2%
August 202541.6%30.2%7.5%0.0%
September 202548.2%7.2%18.5%2.7%
October 202533.4%46.2%3.7%2.6%
November 202547.9%48.9%0.3%2.7%
December 202543.1%23.7%5.5%11.8%
January 202677.1%7.8%5.5%9.0%
February 202661.2%31.8%3.7%0.0%
March 202682.2%14.8%0.0%0.0%
April 202659.8%21.7%6.8%0.0%
May 202677.3%8.9%9.6%0.0%
June 202673.0%6.0%20.8%0.0%
July 202670.6%16.2%4.2%0.0%
August 202680.3%10.3%3.1%4.6%
Duty paid, % of value
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MonthMexicoPakistanIndiaIndonesiaAll countries
September 20240.0%5.2%5.2%5.2%2.5%
October 20240.0%5.2%6.5%5.2%3.1%
November 20240.0%5.2%5.2%6.5%4.5%
December 20240.0%5.2%5.3%5.2%4.2%
January 20250.0%5.2%6.5%5.2%2.2%
February 20250.0%5.2%5.4%5.2%2.5%
March 20250.0%5.2%5.2%n/a2.6%
April 20250.0%5.4%5.2%6.5%9.9%
May 20250.0%5.9%16.5%16.5%1.4%
June 20250.0%15.2%15.3%11.2%3.9%
July 20250.0%14.5%15.2%11.2%9.2%
August 20250.0%15.2%15.6%n/a7.7%
September 20250.0%15.2%23.1%16.5%18.2%
October 20250.0%22.5%55.2%24.2%21.7%
November 20250.0%20.6%56.5%25.5%11.0%
December 20250.0%24.2%55.2%17.4%13.4%
January 20260.0%24.2%55.2%12.6%6.2%
February 20260.0%11.5%15.2%n/a4.2%
March 20260.9%15.2%n/an/a3.5%
April 20260.0%15.2%15.6%n/a5.9%
May 20260.2%15.2%15.2%n/a2.9%
June 20260.0%15.2%15.4%n/a4.1%
July 20260.0%15.2%5.2%n/a2.7%
August 20260.0%15.2%15.2%15.2%2.8%

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: all countries 15.8% → 5.0%.
  2. July–August 2025 · Duty paid: Pakistan 10.2% → 20.6%, all countries 3.8% → 13.5%.

Where it enters the US

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

  1. Laredo, TX$6.5M · 62.8%
  2. Charleston, SC$1.6M · 15.2%
  3. Savannah, GA$804K · 7.8%
  4. Los Angeles, CA$680K · 6.6%
  5. Long Beach, CA$261K · 2.5%

Where US exports go

US exports were $39.9M in August 2026, down 12% from August 2025, and $476.7M over the last 12 months, down 6.0% on the 12 months before.

MarketLast 12 monthsSharevs 12 months before
Honduras$307.5M64.5%−0.2%
Dominican Republic$118.0M24.8%−9.4%
Colombia$17.7M3.7%+2.6%
Guatemala$13.6M2.9%−21%
Peru$6.0M1.3%+168%
El Salvador$5.4M1.1%−75%
Morocco$4.3M0.9%−41%
Canada$1.6M0.3%+6.9%
Other countries (18)$2.5M0.5%+84%
All countries$476.7M100.0%−6.0%

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; 92 have reported 2025 so far.

MarketImportsvs year beforeFrom the USUS share
China$1.37Bin 2025−6.4%$4160.0%
Turkey$63.3Min 2025−39%$00.0%
Colombia$51.0Min 2025−7.7%$23.3M45.6%
Korea, South$50.1Min 2025−13%$00.0%
Portugal$41.2Min 2025−7.4%$20.0%
Japan$40.6Min 2025−1.3%$138K0.3%
Guatemala$33.5Min 2025+6.5%$16.3M48.6%
El Salvador$30.1Min 2025−34%$13.9M46.0%

The biggest market outside the US is China, which imported $1.37B of this product in 2025, under 0.1% of it from the US.

The US supplies 45.6% of imports into Colombia and 48.6% into Guatemala, but under 10% into China, Turkey and South Korea.

Other products under heading 5205: cotton yarn (other than sewing thread), containing 85% (by wt.) or more cotton, not put up for retail sale. 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.
  • 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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