Rubies, sapphires and emeralds, otherwise worked

US trade by year

US imports were $272.9M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, down 81% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $2.47B, up 66%. 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.

• Thailand
• Sri Lanka
• Israel
• Colombia
• 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 48.8% 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, Sri Lanka was cheapest, at $31.58/carat: 9.0% below India.

Landed cost from Switzerland rose 968% on a year earlier, to $1,040/carat, mostly on price: $88.42/carat then, $972.21/carat now.

How the market is shifting

Israel gained the most share: 12.9% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 6.1% in the 12 months before. Colombia lost the most: 7.6%, down from 15.7%. 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.

• Thailand
• Sri Lanka
• Israel
• Colombia
• 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–March 2026 · Duty paid: Thailand 18.9% → 9.8%, India 50.0% → 9.7%, Sri Lanka 19.9% → 10.0%.
   • 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
2. March–October 2025 · Duty paid: Thailand 0.0% → 18.9%, India 0.0% → 49.4%, Colombia 0.0% → 9.9%, Sri Lanka 0.0% → 12.3%, all countries 0.3% → 11.2%.
   • 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

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 7103.91

• 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; 84 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 Hong Kong, which imported $1.51B of this product in 2025, 33.5% of that from the US.

The US supplies 33.5% of imports into Hong Kong, but under 10% into India and Singapore.

Of these, imports into Singapore grew fastest: up 249% from 2024 to 2025.

Related products

Other products under heading 7103: precious and semiprecious stones (no diamonds), not strung, mounted etc.; ungraded precious and semiprecious stones (no diamonds) strung for transport. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.