Generating sets, electric, wind-powered

US trade by year

US imports were $10.1M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, down 92% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $56.4M, up 292%. 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
• Germany
• United Kingdom
• Canada
• 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 73.1% 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, United Kingdom was cheapest, at $20,448 each: 79.4% below Canada.

How the market is shifting

Mexico gained the most share: 32.1% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 5.8% in the 12 months before. China lost the most: 0.2%, down from 15.4%. 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
• Germany
• United Kingdom
• Canada
• 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. May–June 2026 · Duty paid: Mexico 2.7% → 25.0%, all countries 8.3% → 23.3%.
   • Notice of Determination and Request for Comments Concerning Action Pursuant to Section 301: Brazil's Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Digital Trade and Electronic Payment Services; Unfair, Preferential Tariffs; Anti-Corruption Enforcement; Intellectual Property Protection; Ethanol Market Access; and Illegal DeforestationJun 4, 2026 · Office of the US Trade Representative
   • Implementing Certain Tariff-Related Elements of a Trade and Security Agreement Between the American Institute in Taiwan and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United StatesMay 28, 2026 · Office of the US Trade Representative
   • Utility Scale Wind Towers From Canada, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Republic of Korea: Continuation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty OrdersMar 19, 2026 · International Trade Administration
2. August 2025 · Duty paid: all countries 1.4% → 9.5%.
   • Adoption and Procedures of the Section 232 Steel and Aluminum Tariff Inclusions ProcessAug 19, 2025 · Bureau of Industry and Security
   • Imports of Automobiles, Automobile Parts, Civil Aircraft and Civil Aircraft Parts From the United Kingdom Under Executive Order 14309Jun 30, 2025 · International Trade Administration
   • Utility Scale Wind Towers From the Republic of Korea: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023May 9, 2025 · International Trade Administration
3. September 2020 · Duty paid: all countries 11.2% → 2.3%.
   • Utility Scale Wind Towers From Canada, Indonesia, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Amended Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and Countervailing Duty OrdersAug 26, 2020 · International Trade Administration
   • Utility Scale Wind Towers From Canada, Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Antidumping Duty OrdersAug 26, 2020 · International Trade Administration
   • Utility Scale Wind Towers From Canada, Indonesia, Korea, and VietnamAug 25, 2020 · International Trade Commission
4. April 2020 · Duty paid: all countries 2.4% → 8.5%.
   • Utility Scale Wind Towers From Canada, Indonesia, Korea, and Vietnam; Scheduling of the Final Phase of Countervailing Duty and Anti-Dumping Duty InvestigationsMar 20, 2020 · International Trade Commission
   • Utility Scale Wind Towers From Indonesia: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Preliminary Negative Determination of Critical Circumstances, Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional MeasuresFeb 14, 2020 · International Trade Administration
   • Utility Scale Wind Towers From Canada: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less-Than-Fair-Value, Preliminary Negative Determination of Critical Circumstances, and Postponement of Final Determination and Extension of Provisional MeasuresFeb 14, 2020 · International Trade Administration
5. March 2019 · Duty paid: all countries 2.3% → 9.0%.

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. These are the 5 newest of 6. Search the Federal Register for 8502.31

• Notice of Action: Brazil's Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Digital Trade and Electronic Payment Services; Unfair, Preferential Tariffs; Anti-Corruption Enforcement; Intellectual Property Protection; Ethanol Market Access; and Illegal DeforestationJul 20, 2026 · Office of the US Trade Representative
• Notice of Determination and Request for Comments Concerning Action Pursuant to Section 301: Brazil's Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Digital Trade and Electronic Payment Services; Unfair, Preferential Tariffs; Anti-Corruption Enforcement; Intellectual Property Protection; Ethanol Market Access; and Illegal DeforestationJun 4, 2026 · Office of the US Trade Representative
• Implementing Certain Tariff-Related Elements of a Trade and Security Agreement Between the American Institute in Taiwan and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United StatesMay 28, 2026 · Office of the US Trade Representative
• Utility Scale Wind Towers From Canada, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Republic of Korea: Continuation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty OrdersMar 19, 2026 · International Trade Administration
• 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; 114 have reported 2025 so far.

The biggest market outside the US is the United Kingdom, which imported $1.13B of this product in 2025, 0.2% of that from the US.

Of these, imports into Kazakhstan grew fastest: up 207% from 2024 to 2025.

Related products

Other products under heading 8502: electric generating sets and rotary converters. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.