Tubular metal needles and needles for sutures and parts and accessories thereof

US trade by year

US imports were $669.3M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, up 14% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $591.5M, up 73%. 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.

• Mexico
• Japan
• Singapore
• Israel
• 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 44.7% 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, Singapore was cheapest, at $13.34 each: 3.3% below Korea, South.

Korea, South had the lowest price before freight and duty, $12.63 each, but they added 9.2% to it.

Landed cost from Israel rose 32% on a year earlier, to $846.12 each, mostly on price: $639.54 each then, $842.29 each now.

How the market is shifting

Mexico gained the most share: 22.0% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 15.3% in the 12 months before. Ireland lost the most: 4.6%, down from 23.9%. 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
• Japan
• Singapore
• Israel
• 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 2026 · Duty paid: China 69.3% → 41.1%.
2. March–August 2025 · Duty paid: Mexico 0.0% → 0.6%, Japan 0.4% → 9.6%, Ireland 1.2% → 11.5%, China 1.8% → 60.9%, all countries 0.1% → 9.0%.

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; 123 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 China, which imported $632.8M of this product in 2025, 25.4% of that from the US by its own count; the US records $26.2M of exports there.

The US supplies 66.8% of imports into Mexico and 48.6% into Canada, but under 10% into Italy.

Of these, imports into Spain grew fastest: up 30% from 2024 to 2025.

Related products

Other products under heading 9018: instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences (including electro-medical and sight-testing); parts etc. thereof. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.