Housed bearings, incorporating ball or roller bearings

US trade by year

US imports were $164.2M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, up 77% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $148.3M, up 0.1%. In January 2022 the HS 2022 revision moved some goods between this code and 8549.21, 8549.29, 8549.31 and 3 more, so part of a change across the dashed line can be the revision. 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
• China
• Germany
• Italy
• 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 70.3% 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 $10.21 each: 13.2% below Thailand.

Landed cost from France rose 359% on a year earlier, to $110.72 each, mostly on price: $19.73 each then, $86.92 each now.

How the market is shifting

Mexico gained the most share: 43.7% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 39.0% in the 12 months before. China lost the most: 20.7%, down from 23.7%. 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.

• Mexico
• China
• Germany
• Italy
• 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–April 2026 · Duty paid: Mexico 10.8% → 24.3%, China 67.6% → 52.1%, Japan 32.8% → 24.0%, all countries 44.0% → 29.6%.
2. August–September 2025 · Duty paid: Mexico 0.4% → 36.6%, China 64.3% → 75.1%, Japan 14.2% → 32.8%, all countries 18.5% → 44.0%.
   • Adoption and Procedures of the Section 232 Steel and Aluminum Tariff Inclusions ProcessAug 19, 2025 · Bureau of Industry and Security
   • Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished and Unfinished, From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Administrative Review, Rescission, in Part, and Preliminary Determination of No Shipments; 2023-2024Jun 20, 2025 · International Trade Administration
3. February–April 2025 · Duty paid: China 28.9% → 60.1%, Japan 4.5% → 14.1%, all countries 9.6% → 18.1%.
4. June 2020 · Duty paid: China 21.5% → 28.2%.
5. January 2020 · Duty paid: China 27.1% → 20.8%.
6. July 2019 · Duty paid: China 13.6% → 25.7%.
7. October 2018 · Duty paid: China 4.5% → 12.4%.
   • Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished and Unfinished, From the People's Republic of China: Continuation of the Antidumping Duty OrderOct 17, 2018 · International Trade Administration
   • 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 InnovationJul 17, 2018 · Office of the US Trade Representative
   • Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished and Unfinished, From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results and Intent To Rescind the Review in Part; 2016-2017Jul 12, 2018 · 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 8483.20

• Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished or Unfinished From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025May 15, 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; 122 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 $107.2M of this product in 2025, 4.7% of that from the US.

The US supplies 58.3% of imports into Mexico and 52.8% into Canada, but under 10% into Germany, India and France.

Of these, imports into India grew fastest: up 23% from 2024 to 2025.

Related products

Other products under heading 8483: transmission shafts and cranks; bearing housings, housed bearings etc.; gears and gearing; ball & roller screws; clutches, etc.; and parts. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.