Electric conductors, for a voltage not exceeding 1000 v, fitted with connectors, not elsewhere specified

US trade by year

US imports were $8.96B in the 12 months to Aug 2026, up 88% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $3.98B, up 56%. 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
• Vietnam
• 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 69.0% 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, Vietnam was cheapest, at $5.31 each: 17.2% below Taiwan.

Landed cost from Malaysia rose 185% on a year earlier, to $42.93 each, mostly on price: $12.44 each then, $32.55 each now.

How the market is shifting

Vietnam gained the most share: 15.5% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 9.6% in the 12 months before. China lost the most: 25.7%, down from 33.0%. 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
• Vietnam
• 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. December 2025–February 2026 · Duty paid: China 67.6% → 54.5%, Vietnam 29.2% → 23.1%, all countries 34.8% → 26.8%.
2. July–September 2025 · Duty paid: Mexico 4.1% → 18.6%, Vietnam 5.6% → 25.2%, all countries 24.6% → 36.2%.
   • Adoption and Procedures of the Section 232 Steel and Aluminum Tariff Inclusions ProcessAug 19, 2025 · Bureau of Industry and Security
   • Aluminum Wire and Cable From the People's Republic of China: Continuation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty OrdersJun 18, 2025 · International Trade Administration
3. March–April 2025 · Duty paid: China 22.6% → 59.1%, all countries 8.3% → 24.4%.
   • Aluminum Wire and Cable From the People's Republic of China: Final Negative Scope Ruling and Final Affirmative Determination of Circumvention With Respect to the Republic of KoreaJan 27, 2025 · International Trade Administration
   • Aluminum Wire and Cable From the People's Republic of China: Final Negative Scope Ruling and Final Affirmative Determination of Circumvention With Respect to the Socialist Republic of VietnamJan 27, 2025 · International Trade Administration
   • Aluminum Wire and Cable From the People's Republic of China: Final Negative Scope Ruling With Respect to the Kingdom of Cambodia; Final Negative Determination of Circumvention With Respect to the Kingdom of CambodiaDec 20, 2024 · International Trade Administration
4. June 2019 · Duty paid: China 10.5% → 23.0%, all countries 5.6% → 11.0%.
   • Aluminum Wire and Cable From China; Scheduling of the Final Phase of Countervailing Duty and Anti-Dumping Duty InvestigationsJun 28, 2019 · International Trade Commission
   • Aluminum Wire and Cable From the People's Republic of China: Affirmative Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Postponement of Final DeterminationJun 5, 2019 · International Trade Administration
   • Aluminum Wire and Cable From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and Alignment of Final Determination With Final Antidumping Duty DeterminationApr 8, 2019 · International Trade Administration
5. September 2018 · Duty paid: China 1.3% → 10.5%, all countries 1.1% → 6.6%.
   • 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

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; 124 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 Mexico, which imported $3.65B of this product in 2025, 18.2% of that from the US.

Of these, imports into Hong Kong grew fastest: up 117% from 2024 to 2025.

Related products

Other products under heading 8544: insulated wire, cable and other insulated electrical conductors; optical fiber cables, of individually sheathed fibers, with conductors etc. or not. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.