Pencils and crayons, with leads encased in a sheath

US trade by year

US imports were $189.4M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, down 36% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $23.5M, up 0.5%. 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.

• Brazil
• Mexico
• India
• China
• 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 60.8% 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 $6.75/gross: 28.5% below China.

Landed cost from Philippines rose 129% on a year earlier, to $14.23/gross, mostly on price: $5.64/gross then, $12.11/gross now.

How the market is shifting

Brazil gained the most share: 31.5% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 27.8% in the 12 months before. China lost the most: 13.4%, down from 16.5%. 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.

• Brazil
• Mexico
• India
• China
• 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: Brazil 55.3% → 15.5%, India 54.5% → 16.5%, China 34.9% → 22.9%, Vietnam 22.4% → 15.0%, all countries 30.0% → 15.1%.
2. August–October 2025 · Duty paid: Brazil 10.0% → 54.6%, India 16.1% → 55.1%, Vietnam 13.5% → 22.2%, all countries 13.7% → 29.0%.
3. March–May 2025 · Duty paid: Brazil 2.7% → 9.2%, India 6.8% → 15.4%, China 13.4% → 42.2%, Vietnam 6.2% → 12.4%, all countries 5.3% → 12.0%.
4. March 2020 · Duty paid: China 19.7% → 13.5%.
   • Certain Cased Pencils From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2017-2018Mar 27, 2020 · International Trade Administration
5. October 2019 · Duty paid: China 6.0% → 19.7%.
   • Certain Cased Pencils From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Rescission of Review, in Part; 2017-2018Oct 10, 2019 · International Trade Administration
6. June 2019 · Duty paid: India 0.0% → 6.7%.
   • 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 InnovationMay 17, 2019 · Office of the US Trade Representative

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. Search the Federal Register for 9609.10

• Certain Cased Pencils From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025Sep 10, 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; 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 Germany, which imported $112.0M of this product in 2025, 0.1% of that from the US.

Of these, imports into Italy grew fastest: up 19% from 2024 to 2025.

Related products

Other products under heading 9609: pencils (with encased lead) not elsewhere specified, crayons, pencil leads, pastels, drawing charcoals, writing or drawing chalks and tailors' chalks. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.