Carbon electrodes of a kind used for furnaces

US trade by year

US imports were $169.1M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, up 6.4% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $33.3M, down 42%. 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
• India
• Poland
• Japan
• 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 74.0% 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, India was cheapest, at $2.59/kg: 3.8% below China.

China had the lowest price before freight and duty, $1.92/kg, but they added 40.1% to it.

Landed cost from Japan fell 25% on a year earlier, to $4.31/kg, mostly on price: $5.00/kg then, $3.80/kg now.

How the market is shifting

Mexico gained the most share: 39.5% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 21.3% in the 12 months before. India lost the most: 22.0%, down from 31.2%. 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
• India
• Poland
• Japan
• 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: India 50.0% → 9.2%, Japan 15.0% → 10.0%, China 50.4% → 35.0%.
   • Large Diameter Graphite Electrodes From China and India; DeterminationsApr 14, 2026 · International Trade Commission
   • Large Diameter Graphite Electrodes From the People's Republic of China and India: Initiation of Countervailing Duty InvestigationsMar 20, 2026 · International Trade Administration
   • Large Diameter Graphite Electrodes From the People's Republic of China and India: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value InvestigationsMar 20, 2026 · International Trade Administration
2. October 2025 · Duty paid: India 8.5% → 50.0%.
   • Small Diameter Graphite Electrodes From the People's Republic of China: Continuation of Antidumping Duty OrderSep 4, 2025 · International Trade Administration
3. March–June 2025 · Duty paid: India 0.0% → 7.9%, Poland 0.0% → 10.0%, Japan 0.0% → 10.0%, China 25.0% → 56.7%, all countries 2.4% → 10.0%.
4. July 2019 · Duty paid: China 9.7% → 25.0%.
5. November 2018 · Duty paid: China 0.0% → 9.7%.

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 10. Search the Federal Register for 8545.11

• Large Diameter Graphite Electrodes From China and India; Scheduling of the Final Phase of Countervailing Duty and Antidumping Duty InvestigationsOct 26, 2026 · International Trade Commission
• Large Diameter Graphite Electrodes From India: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less-Than-Fair-Value, Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances, Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional MeasuresSep 30, 2026 · International Trade Administration
• Large Diameter Graphite Electrodes From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Critical CircumstancesSep 30, 2026 · International Trade Administration
• Large Diameter Graphite Electrodes From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative Critical Circumstances Determination in Countervailing Duty InvestigationSep 24, 2026 · International Trade Administration
• Large Diameter Graphite Electrodes From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, and Alignment of Final Determination With Final Antidumping Duty DeterminationJul 30, 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; 98 have reported 2025 so far.

The biggest market outside the US is Iceland, which imported $221.3M of this product in 2025, under 0.1% of it from the US.

Of these, imports into Saudi Arabia grew fastest: up 527% from 2024 to 2025.

Related products

Other products under heading 8545: carbon electrodes, carbon brushes, lamp carbons, battery carbons and other articles of graphite or other carbon used for electrical purposes. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.