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US trade by year

US imports were $62.6M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, up 82% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $31.0M, down 71%. 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.

• Austria
• Mexico
• China
• Thailand
• 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 98.5% 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 $2.93/kg: 8.6% below Mexico.

Landed cost from Mexico fell 15% on a year earlier, to $3.21/kg, mostly on price: $2.51/kg then, $2.13/kg now.

How the market is shifting

Austria gained the most share: 73.1% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 59.8% in the 12 months before. Germany lost the most: 0.0%, down from 10.8%. 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.

• Austria
• Mexico
• China
• Thailand
• 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. March–July 2025 · Duty paid: Austria 25.0% → 50.0%, Mexico 0.0% → 25.0%, all countries 22.4% → 49.5%.
2. November 2024 · Duty paid: Austria 17.7% → 25.0%, all countries 8.0% → 18.3%.
   • Notice of Modification: China's Acts, Policies and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property and InnovationSep 18, 2024 · Office of the US Trade Representative
3. May–June 2024 · Duty paid: Austria 25.0% → 14.3%, all countries 15.1% → 7.2%.
4. September 2023 · Duty paid: all countries 23.3% → 8.1%.
5. March 2023 · Duty paid: all countries 14.4% → 24.1%.
6. April 2022 · Duty paid: all countries 20.5% → 13.2%.
7. September 2020 · Duty paid: all countries 8.1% → 20.8%.
8. April–June 2019 · Duty paid: Mexico 25.0% → 0.0%, all countries 22.6% → 12.4%.
   • Request for Comments Concerning Proposed Modification of Action Pursuant to Section 301: China's Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, and InnovationMay 17, 2019 · Office of the US Trade Representative
9. June–August 2018 · Duty paid: Austria 0.0% → 25.0%, Mexico 0.0% → 8.3%, all countries 0.0% → 21.8%.

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; 112 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 Kuwait, which imported $43.0M of this product in 2025, 0.7% of that from the US.

Of these, imports into Egypt grew fastest: up 1291% from 2024 to 2025.

Related products

Other products under heading 7304: tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, seamless, of iron (other than cast) or steel. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.