Fittings for looseleaf binders or files, of base metal

US trade by year

US imports were $5.1M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, down 78% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $1.2M, down 92%. 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
• Korea, South
• Hungary
• 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 96.6% 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 $2.94/kg: 17.9% below Korea, South.

Landed cost from China fell 28% on a year earlier, to $2.94/kg, mostly on duty: $1.13/kg then, $0.49/kg now.

How the market is shifting

Korea, South gained the most share: 18.4% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 12.8% in the 12 months before. 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
• Korea, South
• Hungary
• 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. January–February 2026 · Duty paid: China 34.0% → 21.2%, all countries 34.9% → 21.5%.
2. April 2025 · Duty paid: China 10.7% → 40.7%, all countries 6.8% → 26.6%.
   • Implementation of Duties on Aluminum Pursuant to Proclamation 10895 Adjusting Imports of Aluminum Into the United StatesMar 5, 2025 · Bureau of Industry and Security
3. March 2020 · Duty paid: China 17.7% → 10.4%.
   • Aluminum Extrusions From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Rescission of Review in Part; 2018-2019Dec 31, 2019 · International Trade Administration
4. September–October 2019 · Duty paid: China 2.9% → 17.7%, all countries 2.8% → 13.9%.
   • Aluminum Extrusions From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2017-2018Oct 21, 2019 · International Trade Administration
   • Aluminum Extrusions From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review and Rescission of Review, in Part; 2017Jul 22, 2019 · 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. Search the Federal Register for 8305.10

• Aluminum Extrusions From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review; 2024Aug 11, 2026 · 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; 118 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 Germany, which imported $13.0M of this product in 2025, under 0.1% of it from the US.

Of these, imports into Nigeria grew fastest: up 479% from 2024 to 2025.

Related products

Other products under heading 8305: fittings for loose leaf binders or files, paper clips etc. and parts thereof, of base metal; staples in strips (office, upholstery etc.) of base metal. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.