Photographic equipment for the automatic development of film or paper in rolls or automatically exposing developed film to rolls of photographic paper

US trade by year

US imports were $2.4M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, down 39% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $2.7M, down 71%. In January 2022 the HS 2022 revision moved some goods between this code and 8524.11, 8524.12, 8524.19 and 10 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.

• Germany
• Austria
• Estonia
• 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 87.4% 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, Germany was cheapest, at $111.29/kg: 1.3% below Japan.

Landed cost from Japan rose 173% on a year earlier, to $112.71/kg, mostly on price: $35.42/kg then, $96.54/kg now.

How the market is shifting

Germany gained the most share: 55.1% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 41.3% in the 12 months before. Japan lost the most: 3.1%, down from 13.4%. 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.

• Germany
• Austria
• Estonia
• 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. April 2025 · Duty paid: all countries 2.5% → 12.5%.
2. April 2024 · Duty paid: all countries 17.4% → 2.7%.
3. November 2023 · Duty paid: all countries 6.3% → 17.4%.
4. June 2023 · Duty paid: all countries 15.2% → 2.7%.
5. November 2022 · Duty paid: all countries 23.4% → 5.9%.
6. October 2021 · Duty paid: all countries 12.7% → 21.0%.
7. February 2021 · Duty paid: all countries 21.6% → 15.7%.
8. February 2020 · Duty paid: all countries 11.0% → 22.8%.
9. September 2019 · Duty paid: all countries 3.2% → 11.3%.

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.

The biggest market outside the US is Taiwan, which imported $1.6M of this product in 2024, under 0.1% of it from the US.

The US supplies 98.1% of imports into Liberia, but under 10% into Taiwan, Saudi Arabia and France.

Of these, imports into France grew fastest: up 18% from 2024 to 2025.

Related products

Other products under heading 9010: apparatus and equipment for photographic laboratories not elsewhere specified; negatoscopes; projection screens; parts and accessories thereof. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.