Passenger motor vehicles, not elsewhere specified

US trade by year

US imports were $23.5M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, down 95% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $1.83B, up 11%. In January 2017 the HS 2017 revision moved some goods between this code and 8703.40, 8703.50, 8703.60 and 2 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.

• South Africa
• United Kingdom
• Japan
• Vietnam
• 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 57.2% 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, Ireland was cheapest, at $3,449 each: 61.6% below Japan.

Landed cost from Italy rose 660% on a year earlier, to $20,373 each, mostly on price: $2,346 each then, $18,281 each now.

How the market is shifting

United Kingdom gained the most share: 22.2% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 2.0% in the 12 months before. China lost the most: 1.9%, down from 24.2%. 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.

• South Africa
• United Kingdom
• Japan
• Vietnam
• 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. February–March 2026 · Duty paid: South Africa 27.5% → 0.0%, all countries 18.3% → 9.9%.
2. August–October 2025 · Duty paid: South Africa 0.0% → 27.5%, Japan 8.2% → 14.7%, all countries 5.8% → 17.9%.
   • Certain Low-Speed Personal Transportation Vehicles From the People's Republic of China: Amended Final Antidumping Duty Determination and Antidumping Duty Order; Amended Final Determination of Countervailing Duty Investigation and Countervailing Duty OrderAug 12, 2025 · International Trade Administration
   • Low Speed Personal Transportation Vehicles From China; DeterminationsAug 7, 2025 · International Trade Commission
   • Imports of Automobiles, Automobile Parts, Civil Aircraft and Civil Aircraft Parts From the United Kingdom Under Executive Order 14309Jun 30, 2025 · International Trade Administration
3. March 2025 · Duty paid: Japan 2.4% → 8.2%.
   • Low Speed Personal Transportation Vehicles (LSPTVs) From China; Scheduling of the Final Phase of Countervailing Duty and Antidumping Duty InvestigationsFeb 11, 2025 · International Trade Commission
   • Certain Low Speed Personal Transportation Vehicles From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sale at Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation, Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances, Postponement of Final Determination and Extension of Provisional MeasuresJan 30, 2025 · International Trade Administration
   • Agreement Between the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada (USMCA) Implementing Regulations Related to Textile and Apparel Goods, Automotive Goods, and Other USMCA ProvisionsJan 17, 2025 · Treasury Department
4. January 2022 · Duty paid: all countries 1.1% → 6.6%.

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; 102 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 the Philippines, which imported $510.0M of this product in 2025, none of it from the US.

The US supplies 44.2% of imports into Iraq, but under 10% into the Philippines, France and Denmark.

Of these, imports into the Gambia grew fastest: up 1035% from 2023 to 2024.

Related products

Other products under heading 8703: motor cars and other motor vehicles designed to transport people (other than public-transport type), including station wagons and racing cars. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.