Tariffs are up. Tariffs are down. Shipping is frozen. Shipping is back on.
In the past several weeks, Chinese imports to the U.S. have been on a seesaw, leaving Americans uncertain how tariffs will affect their lives.
It’s impossible to say what tariffs will do to the price or availability of any particular item, although even the Trump administration’s current level of 30 percent tariffs — on top of previous levies — will certainly make many things more expensive.
But thanks to detailed trade data, we know what Americans buy from China, and how much of it, and thus what might be most sensitive to future swings in trade status.
Here are several ways of understanding what’s on those container ships, based on 2024 data from the U.S. International Trade Commission.
First, the products where the greatest share of our imports are Chinese imports:
Goods Americans import almost exclusively from China
| ITEM | Pct. from China |
Imports from China in millions |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Child carriages | 97% | $380 |
| 2 | Synthetic crops | 96% | $991 |
| 3 | Umbrellas | 96% | $491 |
| 4 | Submitting cupboards | 96% | $88 |
| 5 | Vacuum flasks | 96% | $1,634 |
| 6 | Fireworks | 95% | $465 |
| 7 | Youngsters’s image books | 93% | $505 |
| 8 | Moveable lighting | 91% | $901 |
| 9 | Combs | 91% | $367 |
| 10 | Journey kits | 90% | $42 |
This list is the simplest way to think about which Chinese goods the U.S. relies on most. But percentages aren’t everything. Americans buy so much from China that even goods with smaller imported shares from there could still be significantly affected by tariffs.
Chinese goods that Americans spend the most on
| ITEM | Pct. from China |
Imports from China in millions |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Telephones | 42% | $50,085 |
| 2 | Computer systems | 26% | $35,473 |
| 3 | Electrical batteries | 58% | $17,022 |
| 4 | Different toys | 76% | $13,463 |
| 5 | Motor automobiles; elements and equipment | 11% | $9,059 |
| 6 | Video and card video games | 78% | $7,083 |
| 7 | Video shows | 33% | $6,770 |
| 8 | Electrical heaters | 55% | $6,607 |
| 9 | Seats | 26% | $6,582 |
| 10 | Packaged medicines | 6% | $6,146 |
This list skews slightly toward more expensive goods that the average American purchases infrequently, particularly electronics. But the International Trade Commission also tracks how many of each good the U.S. imports.
Chinese goods with huge U.S. import quantities
| ITEM | Pct. from China |
Items imported from China in millions |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plastic housewares | 79% | 67,895 |
| 2 | Different plastic merchandise | 45% | 19,158 |
| 3 | Plastic lids | 22% | 13,688 |
| 4 | Electrical capacitors | 11% | 12,125 |
| 5 | Semiconductor gadgets | 3% | 11,368 |
| 6 | Electrical resistors | 11% | 9,276 |
| 7 | Different toys | 76% | 6,390 |
| 8 | Different material articles | 64% | 5,466 |
| 9 | Formed paper | 38% | 3,895 |
| 10 | Low-voltage safety tools | 15% | 3,626 |
In that list, you can see Americans’ well-documented reliance on China for plastic products.
Many of America’s major imports from China are consumer goods: things you buy for yourself, like clothes, housewares or entertainment. Drill down into those categories and specific products stand out.
For example, American wardrobes are somewhat dependent on China: about a fifth of U.S. clothing imports. But a majority of neckties and gloves and pantyhose are imported from China.
Clothing
| ITEM | Pct. from China |
Imports from China in millions |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hosiery | 58% | $149 |
| 2 | Neckties | 57% | $52 |
| 3 | Gloves | 53% | $724 |
| 4 | Handkerchiefs | 53% | $13 |
| 5 | Girls’s and women’ bathrobes | 50% | $217 |
The U.S. is more reliant on China for things made with polyester and nylon (like pantyhose) than for those made with cotton.
Athletes, especially racket-sport players, are also dependent on China:
Sporting goods
| ITEM | Pct. from China |
Imports from China in millions |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Badminton or comparable rackets | 94% | $64 |
| 2 | Gear for desk tennis | 81% | $34 |
| 3 | Garden-tennis rackets | 70% | $41 |
| 4 | Health club and athletic tools | 69% | $1,652 |
| 5 | Different sports activities and pool tools | 64% | $1,345 |
There are also consumer-goods categories whose “Made in China” status may not be as well known. For example, the U.S. gets a lot of its imported string instruments — such as violins and cellos — from China.
Musical instruments
| ITEM | Pct. from China |
Imports from China in millions |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | String musical devices performed with a bow | 83% | $31 |
| 2 | Brass-wind devices | 44% | $49 |
| 3 | Percussion musical devices | 36% | $42 |
| 4 | Wind musical devices besides brass | 27% | $48 |
| 5 | Grand and upright pianos | 4% | $4.8 |
The Japanese company Yamaha manufactures some of its instruments in China, including trumpets and drums.
The U.S. also relies on China for many of its vitamins …
Vitamin derivatives
| ITEM | Pct. from China |
Imports from China in millions |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vitamin B6 | 90% | $32 |
| 2 | Vitamin B1 | 88% | $43 |
| 3 | Vitamin B12 | 85% | $59 |
| 4 | Vitamin C | 73% | $139 |
| 5 | Vitamin B3 and B5 | 72% | $35 |
… and eels. (China has a robust eel farming industry.)
Fish
| ITEM | Pct. from China |
Imports from China in millions |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Preserved eel | 95% | $38 |
| 2 | Frozen cod-like fish | 91% | $8.5 |
| 3 | Frozen tilapia fillets | 75% | $308 |
| 4 | Dried, salted and brined cod-like fish fillets | 69% | $37 |
| 5 | Frozen flatfish fillets | 65% | $58 |
Then there are the goods that the U.S. imports primarily to put inside other things, like car parts.
Car parts
| ITEM | Pct. from China |
Imports from China in millions |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Car windshields and window elements | 32% | $358 |
| 2 | Motorized vehicle wheels and equipment | 31% | $1,338 |
| 3 | Car elements: brakes, servo-brake and elements | 25% | $1,697 |
| 4 | Bumpers and elements for motor automobiles | 5% | $79 |
| 5 | Seat belts for motor automobiles | 4% | $11 |
The U.S. relies heavily on Chinese imports to build electric vehicles in particular: Some 70 percent of its imported lithium-ion batteries are from China.
Even batteries made in the U.S. often rely on raw materials from China, particularly graphite. (China tightened its export controls on graphite at the end of last year, so this year’s numbers could end up looking very different.)
Critical minerals used in E.V. batteries
| ITEM | Pct. from China |
Imports from China in millions |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Graphite and synthetic graphite | 62% | $376 |
| 2 | Manganese ores, oxides and articles | 37% | $86 |
| 3 | Cobalt ores, oxides, hydroxides and articles | 2% | $9.8 |
| 4 | Nickel ores, oxides, hydroxides, sulphates and uncooked nickel | 2% | $30 |
| 5 | Lithium oxide, hydroxide and carbonate | 1% | $2.6 |
Mr. Trump’s newest tariffs are not the only levies imposed on Chinese goods, and there’s a complicated interplay of which tariffs apply to which products. Some goods that a lot of Americans buy received exemptions from the latest tariffs (though perhaps not future ones), including one item the U.S. imports almost exclusively from China: children’s books.
Select exempted goods
| ITEM | Pct. from China |
Imports from China in millions |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Youngsters’s image, drawing or coloring books | 93% | $505 |
| 2 | Smartphones | 73% | $40,675 |
| 3 | Moveable computer systems | 66% | $32,169 |
That’s a window into what Americans buy from China. But for some imports, the U.S. doesn’t rely on China. It’s a list that includes large vehicles, precious metals and tomatoes, all of which America imports largely from other countries.
Goods that the U.S. imports the least from China
| ITEM | Total imports in millions |
|
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Supply vehicles | $47,524 |
| 2 | Different valuable steel merchandise | $21,231 |
| 3 | Planes, helicopters, and/or spacecraft | $18,309 |
| 4 | Diamonds | $15,938 |
| 5 | Uncooked aluminum | $10,113 |
| 6 | Refined copper | $8,627 |
| 7 | Platinum | $6,973 |
| 8 | Wine | $6,697 |
| 9 | Different fruits | $5,923 |
| 10 | Silver | $5,088 |
It’s also worth noting what America exports to China. Though the U.S. sends fewer goods to China than it receives, these could still be affected in a trade war. (China has been instituting its own exemptions, which are broader than those of the U.S.)
Goods that the U.S. exports the most to China
| ITEM | Exports to China in millions |
|
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soybeans | $12,761 |
| 2 | Civilian plane | $11,522 |
| 3 | Built-in circuits | $8,716 |
| 4 | Vaccines, blood, antisera, toxins and cultures | $6,680 |
| 5 | Petroleum fuel | $6,187 |
| 6 | Crude petroleum | $6,160 |
| 7 | Vehicles | $4,931 |
| 8 | Machines used to fabricate semiconductor gadgets, digital built-in circuits or flat panel shows | $4,170 |
| 9 | Medical devices | $3,460 |
| 10 | Scrap copper | $2,795 |
To let you take a closer look at what America does and doesn’t import from China, we’ve included a searchable list below of all goods for which the U.S. imported at least $20 million (from any country) in 2024, excluding America’s major exports.
| ITEM | Pct. from China |
Imports from China in millions |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Child carriages | 97% | $380 |
| 2 | Synthetic crops | 96% | $991 |
| 3 | Umbrellas | 96% | $491 |
| 4 | Submitting cupboards | 96% | $88 |
| 5 | Vacuum flasks | 96% | $1,634 |
| 6 | Fireworks | 95% | $465 |
| 7 | Youngsters’s image books | 93% | $505 |
| 8 | Moveable lighting | 91% | $901 |
| 9 | Combs | 91% | $367 |
| 10 | Journey kits | 90% | $42 |
| 11 | Chalkboards | 90% | $124 |
| 12 | Social gathering decorations | 89% | $4,699 |
| 13 | Umbrella and strolling stick equipment | 85% | $71 |
| 14 | Different footwear | 84% | $972 |
| 15 | Blankets | 82% | $1,398 |
| 16 | Different cutlery | 82% | $140 |
| 17 | Iron housewares | 81% | $3,155 |
| 18 | Bells and different steel ornaments | 81% | $911 |
| 19 | Ceramic tableware | 80% | $835 |
| 20 | Different home electrical housewares | 80% | $2,696 |
| 21 | Different musical devices | 80% | $22 |
| 22 | Different clocks | 80% | $110 |
| 23 | Scissors | 79% | $123 |
| 24 | Plastic housewares | 79% | $6,079 |
| 25 | Video and card video games | 78% | $7,083 |
| 26 | Different toys | 76% | $13,463 |
| 27 | Cooking hand instruments | 74% | $106 |
| 28 | Wooden frames | 74% | $149 |
| 29 | Sound recording tools | 72% | $812 |
| 30 | Aluminum housewares | 72% | $1,143 |
| 31 | Postcards | 72% | $273 |
| 32 | Glycosides | 71% | $215 |
| 33 | Manganese | 71% | $85 |
| 34 | Electrical filament | 70% | $1,882 |
| 35 | Scent sprays | 70% | $173 |
| 36 | Cutlery units | 69% | $309 |
| 37 | Picture projectors | 68% | $38 |
| 38 | Graphite | 68% | $96 |
| 39 | Wooden ornaments | 68% | $394 |
| 40 | Phosphoric esters and salts | 67% | $82 |
| 41 | Glass bricks | 66% | $99 |
| 42 | Wheelchairs | 66% | $273 |
| 43 | Pearl merchandise | 65% | $605 |
| 44 | Strolling sticks | 65% | $28 |
| 45 | Imitation jewellery | 65% | $602 |
| 46 | Brooms | 64% | $1,241 |
| 47 | Different material articles | 64% | $3,589 |
| 48 | Pretend hair | 64% | $879 |
| 49 | Decorative ceramics | 63% | $328 |
| 50 | Wooden kitchenware | 63% | $267 |
| 51 | Different knit clothes equipment | 63% | $186 |
| 52 | Awnings, tents, and sails | 62% | $546 |
| 53 | Iron stitching needles | 62% | $23 |
| 54 | Iron stovetops | 62% | $2,278 |
| 55 | Pastes and waxes | 62% | $200 |
| 56 | Safes | 62% | $212 |
| 57 | Calendars | 61% | $73 |
| 58 | Inside ornamental glassware | 60% | $806 |
| 59 | Synthetic graphite | 60% | $280 |
| 60 | Knives | 59% | $463 |
| 61 | Fishing and looking tools | 59% | $512 |
| 62 | Watch straps | 58% | $121 |
| 63 | Electrical batteries | 58% | $17,022 |
| 64 | Molybdenum | 58% | $109 |
| 65 | Different headwear | 57% | $328 |
| 66 | Neck ties | 57% | $52 |
| 67 | Sports activities tools | 56% | $4,283 |
| 68 | Knit gloves | 56% | $602 |
| 69 | Knit socks and hosiery | 55% | $1,320 |
| 70 | Electrical heaters | 55% | $6,607 |
| 71 | Hats | 55% | $62 |
| 72 | Mattresses | 54% | $2,200 |
| 73 | Processed mica | 54% | $26 |
| 74 | Different non-knit clothes equipment | 54% | $111 |
| 75 | Porcelain tableware | 54% | $179 |
| 76 | Rubber footwear | 54% | $3,440 |
| 77 | Bedspreads | 54% | $422 |
| 78 | Handkerchiefs | 53% | $13 |
| 79 | Woven materials | 52% | $120 |
| 80 | Bladed weapons and equipment | 52% | $12 |
| 81 | Different articles of twine and cord | 51% | $76 |
| 82 | Hair trimmers | 51% | $343 |
| 83 | Gimp yarn | 51% | $41 |
| 84 | Inedible fat and oils | 50% | $1,177 |
| 85 | Cameras | 49% | $229 |
| 86 | Artistry paints | 48% | $63 |
| 87 | Eyewear frames | 47% | $595 |
| 88 | Rest room ceramics | 46% | $725 |
| 89 | Mannequins | 46% | $32 |
| 90 | Window dressings | 46% | $564 |
| 91 | Magnesium carbonate | 46% | $97 |
| 92 | Different carpets | 45% | $132 |
| 93 | Plastic wash basins | 45% | $273 |
| 94 | Smoking pipes | 45% | $12 |
| 95 | Electromagnets | 45% | $487 |
| 96 | Different zinc merchandise | 44% | $125 |
| 97 | Pulley methods | 44% | $653 |
| 98 | Waterproof footwear | 44% | $65 |
| 99 | Non-knit gloves | 43% | $122 |
| 100 | Carbides | 42% | $147 |
| 101 | Telephones | 42% | $50,085 |
| 102 | Instrument units | 42% | $38 |
| 103 | Bicycles, supply tricycles, different cycles | 42% | $417 |
| 104 | Medical furnishings | 42% | $537 |
| 105 | Locust beans, seaweed, sugar beet, cane | 41% | $100 |
| 106 | Microphones and headphones | 41% | $5,365 |
| 107 | Iron anchors | 41% | $18 |
| 108 | Monopods, bipods, tripods and comparable articles | 41% | $24 |
| 109 | Eyewear | 40% | $1,023 |
| 110 | Scarves | 40% | $124 |
| 111 | Different hand instruments | 39% | $570 |
| 112 | Electrical musical devices | 39% | $232 |
| 113 | Rubber stamps | 39% | $14 |
| 114 | Iron toiletry | 38% | $238 |
| 115 | Scales | 38% | $329 |
| 116 | Iron oxides and hydroxides | 38% | $82 |
| 117 | Felt or coated cloth clothes | 38% | $825 |
| 118 | Metallic workplace provides | 38% | $57 |
| 119 | Different knit clothes | 37% | $550 |
| 120 | Motor-working instruments | 37% | $2,742 |
| 121 | Lighting fixtures | 36% | $3,344 |
| 122 | Clothes of impregnated cloth | 36% | $67 |
| 123 | Hand instruments | 36% | $169 |
| 124 | Percussion | 36% | $42 |
| 125 | Pens | 35% | $393 |
| 126 | Textile footwear | 35% | $2,760 |
| 127 | Saddlery | 35% | $198 |
| 128 | Spring, air, and fuel weapons | 35% | $73 |
| 129 | Carboxyimide compounds | 35% | $102 |
| 130 | Different wooden articles | 35% | $597 |
| 131 | Electrical insulators | 34% | $135 |
| 132 | Knit ladies’s undergarments | 34% | $1,100 |
| 133 | Home linens | 34% | $1,989 |
| 134 | Rest room paper | 34% | $678 |
| 135 | Wind devices | 34% | $97 |
| 136 | Metallic mountings | 34% | $2,945 |
| 137 | Plastic flooring coverings | 34% | $1,419 |
| 138 | Knit lively put on | 33% | $226 |
| 139 | Backyard instruments | 33% | $136 |
| 140 | Titanium oxides | 33% | $20 |
| 141 | Video shows | 33% | $6,770 |
| 142 | Bi-wheel automobile elements | 33% | $519 |
| 143 | Video recording tools | 33% | $179 |
| 144 | Glass beads | 32% | $45 |
| 145 | Therapeutic home equipment | 32% | $2,033 |
| 146 | Security glass | 31% | $416 |
| 147 | Pencils and crayons | 31% | $99 |
| 148 | Iron chains | 31% | $216 |
| 149 | Knitted hats | 31% | $654 |
| 150 | Non-knit ladies’s coats | 29% | $562 |
| 151 | Printed circuit boards | 29% | $747 |
| 152 | Iron material | 29% | $168 |
| 153 | Vacuum cleaners | 29% | $896 |
| 154 | Different forged iron merchandise | 29% | $160 |
| 155 | Sound recordings | 29% | $448 |
| 156 | Ketones and quinones | 28% | $278 |
| 157 | Paper notebooks | 28% | $269 |
| 158 | Decorative trimmings | 28% | $11 |
| 159 | Rubber inside tubes | 28% | $21 |
| 160 | Non-knit males’s coats | 28% | $547 |
| 161 | Wrenches | 27% | $227 |
| 162 | Different ladies’s undergarments | 27% | $640 |
| 163 | Merchandising machines | 27% | $70 |
| 164 | Embroidery | 27% | $29 |
| 165 | Labels | 26% | $11 |
| 166 | Different metals | 26% | $182 |
| 167 | Seats | 26% | $6,582 |
| 168 | Oxygen heterocyclic compounds | 26% | $432 |
| 169 | Knit males’s undergarments | 26% | $427 |
| 170 | Chromium oxides and hydroxides | 26% | $6.8 |
| 171 | Computer systems | 26% | $35,473 |
| 172 | Copper housewares | 26% | $25 |
| 173 | Nucleic acids | 25% | $880 |
| 174 | Basketwork | 24% | $140 |
| 175 | Boat propellers | 24% | $149 |
| 176 | Vegetable and mineral carvings | 24% | $96 |
| 177 | Knit ladies’s coats | 24% | $199 |
| 178 | Twine, cordage or rope; knotted netting, fishing nets and different nets, of textile supplies | 24% | $13 |
| 179 | Time switches | 24% | $15 |
| 180 | Nitrogen heterocyclic compounds | 24% | $1,167 |
| 181 | Oxygen amino compounds | 24% | $425 |
| 182 | Bikes and cycles | 23% | $907 |
| 183 | Calculators | 23% | $260 |
| 184 | Non-knit lively put on | 23% | $536 |
| 185 | Padlocks | 23% | $662 |
| 186 | Wool grease | 23% | $5.8 |
| 187 | Wallpaper | 23% | $27 |
| 188 | Trunks and instances | 23% | $2,613 |
| 189 | Iron nails | 23% | $220 |
| 190 | Aluminum ore | 22% | $35 |
| 191 | Air pumps | 22% | $3,494 |
| 192 | Coated textile cloth | 22% | $23 |
| 193 | Knit infants’ clothes | 22% | $374 |
| 194 | Carboxyamide compounds | 22% | $249 |
| 195 | Family washing machines | 22% | $502 |
| 196 | Non-knit ladies’s undergarments | 22% | $106 |
| 197 | Different furnishings | 22% | $5,718 |
| 198 | Woodworking machines | 21% | $297 |
| 199 | Labored slate | 21% | $9.8 |
| 200 | Vegetable saps | 21% | $348 |
| 201 | Non-knit ladies’s fits | 21% | $2,160 |
| 202 | Woven cloth of artificial staple fibers | 21% | $8.1 |
| 203 | Commodities not elsewhere specified | 21% | $5,136 |
| 204 | Rubber attire | 21% | $558 |
| 205 | Balances | 21% | $25 |
| 206 | Leather-based footwear | 21% | $2,404 |
| 207 | Glass bottles | 21% | $343 |
| 208 | Knit ladies’s fits | 21% | $1,106 |
| 209 | Plastic constructing supplies | 21% | $578 |
| 210 | Barium sulphate | 20% | $40 |
| 211 | Knit sweaters | 20% | $2,570 |
| 212 | Fridges | 19% | $2,585 |
| 213 | Air conditioners | 19% | $2,876 |
| 214 | Wood device handles | 19% | $9.2 |
| 215 | Sanitary towels (pads) | 19% | $341 |
| 216 | Vegetable alkaloids | 19% | $86 |
| 217 | Navigation tools | 18% | $799 |
| 218 | Carboxylic acids | 18% | $267 |
| 219 | Decals | 18% | $20 |
| 220 | Stone working machines | 18% | $67 |
| 221 | Non-knit ladies’s shirts | 18% | $326 |
| 222 | Non-knit infants’ clothes | 18% | $58 |
| 223 | Aluminum foil | 18% | $243 |
| 224 | Watch instances and elements | 18% | $4.6 |
| 225 | Knit males’s coats | 17% | $142 |
| 226 | Copper pipe fittings | 17% | $178 |
| 227 | Gum coated textile cloth | 17% | $14 |
| 228 | Broadcasting tools | 17% | $1,924 |
| 229 | Refractory bricks | 17% | $47 |
| 230 | Warp knit materials | 16% | $55 |
| 231 | Inhalable tobacco/nicotine merchandise | 16% | $93 |
| 232 | Stranded iron wire | 16% | $155 |
| 233 | Metallic molds | 16% | $359 |
| 234 | Hydrazine or hydroxylamine derivatives | 16% | $23 |
| 235 | Pearls | 15% | $12 |
| 236 | Spices | 15% | $62 |
| 237 | Onions | 15% | $126 |
| 238 | Constructing stone | 14% | $395 |
| 239 | Vegetable waxes and beeswax | 14% | $9.4 |
| 240 | Hand saws | 14% | $126 |
| 241 | Packing luggage | 14% | $98 |
| 242 | Agglomerated cork | 14% | $17 |
| 243 | Audio alarms | 14% | $519 |
| 244 | Sizzling-rolled stainless-steel bars | 14% | $20 |
| 245 | Ebook-binding machines | 14% | $29 |
| 246 | Silk materials | 14% | $5.3 |
| 247 | Metallic stoppers | 13% | $138 |
| 248 | Letter inventory | 13% | $28 |
| 249 | Conveyor belt textiles | 13% | $15 |
| 250 | Rolling machines | 13% | $46 |
| 251 | Electrical ignitions | 13% | $590 |
| 252 | Retail synthetic filament yarn | 13% | $5.3 |
| 253 | Rubber belting | 13% | $105 |
| 254 | Different leather-based articles | 13% | $19 |
| 255 | Stitching machines | 13% | $53 |
| 256 | Different vegetable oils | 13% | $31 |
| 257 | Textile wall coverings | 13% | $4.7 |
| 258 | Tufted carpets | 13% | $138 |
| 259 | Casting machines | 13% | $60 |
| 260 | Fish fillets | 13% | $951 |
| 261 | Mirrors and lenses | 13% | $195 |
| 262 | Diazo, azo or azoxy compounds | 13% | $6.2 |
| 263 | Electrical motors | 12% | $1,603 |
| 264 | Furskin attire | 12% | $12 |
| 265 | Industrial printers | 12% | $1,787 |
| 266 | Iron wire | 12% | $75 |
| 267 | Electrical transformers | 12% | $3,539 |
| 268 | Milling stones | 12% | $68 |
| 269 | Different workplace machines | 12% | $116 |
| 270 | Granulated slag | 12% | $26 |
| 271 | Different heating equipment | 12% | $1,066 |
| 272 | Different clocks and watches | 12% | $6.5 |
| 273 | Sulfonamides | 12% | $134 |
| 274 | Dried/salted/smoked/brined fish | 12% | $49 |
| 275 | Leather-based attire | 12% | $164 |
| 276 | Non-knit males’s undergarments | 12% | $26 |
| 277 | Polycarboxylic acids | 12% | $181 |
| 278 | Electrical elements | 11% | $35 |
| 279 | Antimony | 11% | $11 |
| 280 | Engine elements | 11% | $1,228 |
| 281 | Insulated wire | 11% | $3,448 |
| 282 | Rubber pipes | 11% | $253 |
| 283 | Aluminum buildings | 11% | $307 |
| 284 | Electrical resistors | 11% | $109 |
| 285 | Non-knit males’s fits | 11% | $884 |
| 286 | Different electrical equipment | 11% | $1,798 |
| 287 | Electrical capacitors | 11% | $200 |
| 288 | Motor automobiles; elements and equipment | 11% | $9,059 |
| 289 | Labored ivory and bone | 11% | $4.3 |
| 290 | Laborious rubber | 11% | $3.3 |
| 291 | Different processed fruits and nuts | 11% | $449 |
| 292 | Microscopes | 11% | $60 |
| 293 | Radio receivers | 11% | $404 |
| 294 | Unprocessed synthetic staple fibers | 11% | $26 |
| 295 | Electrical motor elements | 11% | $368 |
| 296 | Knit males’s fits | 10% | $234 |
| 297 | Different processed greens | 10% | $202 |
| 298 | Insulating glass | 10% | $37 |
| 299 | Different meat | 10% | $6.6 |
| 300 | Retail synthetic staple fibers yarn | 10% | $15 |
| 301 | Tea | 10% | $55 |
| 302 | Razor blades | 10% | $67 |
| 303 | Iron buildings | 10% | $854 |
| 304 | Non-knit males’s shirts | 10% | $261 |
| 305 | Non-mechanical removing equipment | 10% | $90 |
| 306 | Different slag and ash | 10% | $3.6 |
| 307 | Pepper | 9% | $104 |
| 308 | Wooden fiberboard | 9% | $120 |
| 309 | Equipment having particular person features | 9% | $1,265 |
| 310 | Papermaking machines | 9% | $67 |
| 311 | Metalworking machines | 9% | $30 |
| 312 | Retail cotton yarn | 9% | $4.5 |
| 313 | Dried fruits | 9% | $32 |
| 314 | Workplace machine elements | 9% | $4,499 |
| 315 | Knit t-shirts | 9% | $572 |
| 316 | Knitting machines | 9% | $11 |
| 317 | Gentle pure woven cotton | 9% | $32 |
| 318 | Metal wire | 9% | $20 |
| 319 | Fork-lifts | 8% | $691 |
| 320 | Knit ladies’s shirts | 8% | $167 |
| 321 | Hand-woven rugs | 8% | $130 |
| 322 | Stone processing machines | 8% | $178 |
| 323 | Gelatin | 8% | $24 |
| 324 | Pumice | 8% | $4.6 |
| 325 | Drilling machines | 8% | $30 |
| 326 | Gentle combined woven cotton | 8% | $4.1 |
| 327 | Electrical lighting and signaling tools | 8% | $532 |
| 328 | Pharmaceutical rubber merchandise | 8% | $6.3 |
| 329 | Cement articles | 8% | $198 |
| 330 | Jute woven cloth | 8% | $3.0 |
| 331 | Different reside crops, cuttings and slips; mushroom spawn |
8% | $70 |
| 332 | Iron pipes | 7% | $224 |
| 333 | Different agricultural equipment | 7% | $95 |
| 334 | Washing and bottling machines | 7% | $431 |
| 335 | Sugar preserved meals | 7% | $2.5 |
| 336 | Knit males’s shirts | 7% | $153 |
| 337 | Leather-based equipment | 7% | $2.3 |
| 338 | Feldspar | 7% | $18 |
| 339 | Rubberworking equipment | 7% | $228 |
| 340 | Metallic-rolling mills | 7% | $95 |
| 341 | Lifting equipment | 7% | $545 |
| 342 | Electrical management boards | 7% | $1,252 |
| 343 | Blown glass | 6% | $4.8 |
| 344 | Mollusks | 6% | $78 |
| 345 | Flax woven cloth | 6% | $7.9 |
| 346 | Magnesium | 6% | $22 |
| 347 | Used rubber tires | 6% | $29 |
| 348 | Central heating boilers | 6% | $29 |
| 349 | Pasta | 6% | $109 |
| 350 | Textile processing machines | 6% | $117 |
| 351 | Visitors indicators | 6% | $28 |
| 352 | Glass with edge workings | 6% | $14 |
| 353 | Different vegetable merchandise | 6% | $10 |
| 354 | Packaged medicines | 6% | $6,146 |
| 355 | Plant foliage | 6% | $15 |
| 356 | Quilted textiles | 6% | $1.5 |
| 357 | Tobacco processing machines | 6% | $5.4 |
| 358 | Wooden carpentry | 6% | $188 |
| 359 | Frozen greens | 6% | $80 |
| 360 | Candles | 6% | $62 |
| 361 | Fragrance crops | 6% | $29 |
| 362 | Processed fish | 6% | $116 |
| 363 | Scrap nickel | 6% | $22 |
| 364 | Yeast | 6% | $31 |
| 365 | Instrument plates | 5% | $57 |
| 366 | Copper plating | 5% | $54 |
| 367 | Different paper equipment | 5% | $75 |
| 368 | Polyamide cloth | 5% | $16 |
| 369 | Different non-metal removing equipment | 5% | $14 |
| 370 | Massive building automobiles | 5% | $529 |
| 371 | Fruit juice | 5% | $189 |
| 372 | Different edible animal merchandise | 5% | $1.1 |
| 373 | Plywood | 5% | $138 |
| 374 | Processed crustaceans | 5% | $148 |
| 375 | Unprocessed artificial staple fibers | 5% | $36 |
| 376 | Confectionery sugar | 5% | $149 |
| 377 | Different animals | 5% | $15 |
| 378 | Radioactive chemical compounds | 5% | $324 |
| 379 | Metallic-clad merchandise | 5% | $2.7 |
| 380 | Nitrites and nitrates | 5% | $6.4 |
| 381 | Antiques | 4% | $36 |
| 382 | Espresso and tea extracts | 4% | $56 |
| 383 | Pianos | 4% | $4.5 |
| 384 | Reclaimed rubber | 4% | $4.5 |
| 385 | Metallic ending machines | 4% | $22 |
| 386 | Tapioca | 4% | $2.3 |
| 387 | Forging machines | 4% | $70 |
| 388 | Insect resins | 4% | $5.4 |
| 389 | Rubber tires | 4% | $760 |
| 390 | Photographic plates | 4% | $28 |
| 391 | Textile scraps | 4% | $4.5 |
| 392 | Different oily seeds | 4% | $16 |
| 393 | Processed mushrooms | 4% | $4.9 |
| 394 | Cranes | 4% | $66 |
| 395 | Tungsten ore | 3% | $1.6 |
| 396 | Animal extracts | 3% | $0.78 |
| 397 | Base steel watches | 3% | $160 |
| 398 | Paper pulp filter blocks | 3% | $0.65 |
| 399 | Felt equipment | 3% | $3.4 |
| 400 | Revolution counters | 3% | $49 |
| 401 | Curbstones | 3% | $2.7 |
| 402 | Different small iron pipes | 3% | $111 |
| 403 | Salt | 3% | $15 |
| 404 | Jewellery | 3% | $411 |
| 405 | Clean audio media | 3% | $504 |
| 406 | Pickled meals | 3% | $17 |
| 407 | Cobalt oxides and hydroxides | 3% | $0.90 |
| 408 | Different pure vegetable oils | 3% | $27 |
| 409 | Semiconductor gadgets | 3% | $557 |
| 410 | Plane elements for spacecraft, UAVs, and floor tools | 2% | $384 |
| 411 | Iron blocks | 2% | $26 |
| 412 | Starches | 2% | $11 |
| 413 | Carded wool or animal hair cloth | 2% | $0.58 |
| 414 | Collector’s objects | 2% | $7.3 |
| 415 | Utility meters | 2% | $41 |
| 416 | Densified wooden | 2% | $0.65 |
| 417 | Linoleum | 2% | $0.69 |
| 418 | Copper pipes | 2% | $23 |
| 419 | Photographic paper | 2% | $0.46 |
| 420 | Metallic lathes | 2% | $19 |
| 421 | Vegetable parchment | 2% | $7.5 |
| 422 | Coated flat-rolled iron | 2% | $102 |
| 423 | Spice seeds | 2% | $2.2 |
| 424 | Vehicles | 2% | $3,588 |
| 425 | Fuel generators | 2% | $497 |
| 426 | Gravel and crushed stone | 2% | $4.1 |
| 427 | Knotted carpets | 2% | $5.7 |
| 428 | Non-retail synthetic staple fibers yarn | 2% | $0.32 |
| 429 | Artificial reconstructed jewellery stones | 2% | $17 |
| 430 | Cigarette paper | 1% | $3.9 |
| 431 | Chlorates and perchlorates | 1% | $2.4 |
| 432 | Floor nut oil | 1% | $0.94 |
| 433 | Formed wooden | 1% | $19 |
| 434 | Cloves | 1% | $0.35 |
| 435 | Retail wool or animal hair yarn | 1% | $0.65 |
| 436 | Dolomite | 1% | $0.52 |
| 437 | Ferroalloys | 1% | $28 |
| 438 | Hydrochloric acid | 1% | $0.77 |
| 439 | Combed wool or animal hair cloth | 1% | $0.59 |
| 440 | Leather-based additional ready after tanning or crusting of animals (apart from ovine) | 1% | $0.30 |
| 441 | Wooden charcoal | 1% | $1.1 |
| 442 | Aquatic invertebrates, apart from crustaceans and mollusks | 0.9% | $0.50 |
| 443 | Non-retail combed wool yarn | 0.9% | $0.42 |
| 444 | Different massive iron pipes | 0.9% | $6.8 |
| 445 | Baked items | 0.8% | $88 |
| 446 | Coin | 0.8% | $22 |
| 447 | Leather-based of different animals | 0.8% | $2.7 |
| 448 | Nutmeg, mace and cardamons | 0.8% | $0.37 |
| 449 | Different firearms | 0.8% | $5.4 |
| 450 | Perfumes | 0.8% | $45 |
| 451 | Preserved greens | 0.8% | $0.38 |
| 452 | Watch actions | 0.8% | $0.24 |
| 453 | Tissue | 0.7% | $4.1 |
| 454 | Aluminum wire | 0.6% | $5.7 |
| 455 | Cinnamon | 0.6% | $0.96 |
| 456 | Uncooked iron bars | 0.6% | $5.0 |
| 457 | Vaccines, blood, antisera, toxins and cultures | 0.6% | $618 |
| 458 | Laborious liquor | 0.5% | $59 |
| 459 | Jams | 0.5% | $3.2 |
| 460 | Sawn wooden | 0.5% | $38 |
| 461 | Stranded aluminum wire | 0.5% | $2.0 |
| 462 | Car our bodies for the motor automobiles | 0.5% | $3.8 |
| 463 | Biodiesel and mixtures thereof | 0.4% | $6.9 |
| 464 | Coconut and different vegetable fibers | 0.4% | $0.19 |
| 465 | Dwell fish | 0.4% | $0.34 |
| 466 | Pure cork articles | 0.4% | $0.66 |
| 467 | Chocolate | 0.3% | $15 |
| 468 | Frozen fruits and nuts | 0.3% | $3.8 |
| 469 | Hat types | 0.3% | $0.14 |
| 470 | Metalworking switch machines | 0.3% | $3.9 |
| 471 | Particle board | 0.3% | $7.3 |
| 472 | Pitch coke | 0.3% | $0.27 |
| 473 | Tractors | 0.3% | $48 |
| 474 | Zinc oxide and peroxide | 0.3% | $0.94 |
| 475 | Citrus | 0.2% | $3.2 |
| 476 | Espresso | 0.2% | $22 |
| 477 | Crustaceans | 0.2% | $13 |
| 478 | Reduce flowers | 0.2% | $3.8 |
| 479 | Gypsum | 0.2% | $0.40 |
| 480 | Halogens | 0.2% | $0.67 |
| 481 | Linseed | 0.2% | $0.25 |
| 482 | Motorized vehicle chassis fitted with engine | 0.2% | $0.39 |
| 483 | Different fermented drinks | 0.2% | $0.70 |
| 484 | Different greens | 0.2% | $11 |
| 485 | Treasured stones | 0.2% | $4.7 |
| 486 | Processed cereals | 0.2% | $0.95 |
| 487 | Uncooked lead | 0.2% | $1.5 |
| 488 | Seed oils | 0.2% | $0.49 |
| 489 | Semi-finished iron | 0.2% | $5.6 |
| 490 | Stainless-steel ingots | 0.2% | $1.1 |
| 491 | Uncoated paper | 0.2% | $3.7 |
| 492 | Wheat flours | 0.2% | $0.61 |
| 493 | Wheat gluten | 0.2% | $0.67 |
| 494 | Plane launch gear | 0.1% | $0.48 |
| 495 | Bananas | 0.1% | $1.7 |
| 496 | Beer | 0.1% | $3.9 |
| 497 | Cereal flours | 0.1% | $0.42 |
| 498 | Chromium ore | 0.1% | |
| 499 | Cocoa powder | 0.1% | $0.23 |
| 500 | Nitrogenous fertilizers | 0.1% | $2.3 |
| 501 | Different vegetable residues | 0.1% | $1.1 |
| 502 | Treasured steel watches | 0.1% | $2.2 |
| 503 | Uncooked sugar | 0.1% | $2.5 |
| 504 | Uncooked zinc | 0.1% | $2.0 |
| 505 | Sulphur | 0.1% | $0.48 |
| 506 | Tropical fruits | 0.1% | $4.2 |
| 507 | Unglazed ceramics | 0.1% | $1.2 |
| 508 | Water | 0.1% | $0.67 |
| 509 | Ammonia | ||
| 510 | Asphalt mixtures | ||
| 511 | Borax | ||
| 512 | Bovine | ||
| 513 | Bovine, sheep, and goat fats | ||
| 514 | Bulbs and roots | ||
| 515 | Butter | ||
| 516 | Calcium phosphates | ||
| 517 | Casein | ||
| 518 | Cement | $0.52 | |
| 519 | Cocoa beans | ||
| 520 | Cocoa butter | ||
| 521 | Cocoa paste | ||
| 522 | Coconut oil | $0.52 | |
| 523 | Coconuts, brazil nuts, and cashews | ||
| 524 | Cucumbers | ||
| 525 | Supply vehicles | $12 | |
| 526 | Diamonds | $0.93 | |
| 527 | Electrical energy | ||
| 528 | Grapes | $0.20 | |
| 529 | Handguns | ||
| 530 | Honey | ||
| 531 | Horses | ||
| 532 | Sizzling-rolled iron bars | $0.25 | |
| 533 | Iron reductions | ||
| 534 | Legumes | $0.13 | |
| 535 | Manganese ore | ||
| 536 | Melons | ||
| 537 | Molasses | ||
| 538 | Newsprint | ||
| 539 | Non-fillet recent fish | $0.92 | |
| 540 | Oats | ||
| 541 | Olive oil | ||
| 542 | Different animal fat | ||
| 543 | Different fruits | $2.9 | |
| 544 | Different valuable steel merchandise | $2.9 | |
| 545 | Palm oil | ||
| 546 | Peat | ||
| 547 | Phosphatic fertilizers | ||
| 548 | Pig iron | ||
| 549 | Pigs | ||
| 550 | Planes, helicopters, and/or spacecraft | $0.14 | |
| 551 | Platinum | $0.32 | |
| 552 | Potassic fertilizers | $0.28 | |
| 553 | Pure olive oil | ||
| 554 | Rapeseed oil | $0.56 | |
| 555 | Uncooked aluminum | $2.7 | |
| 556 | Uncooked nickel | $0.48 | |
| 557 | Uncooked tin | $0.11 | |
| 558 | Refined copper | $2.3 | |
| 559 | Rolled tobacco | $0.49 | |
| 560 | Rubber | $0.40 | |
| 561 | Rye | ||
| 562 | Self-propelled rail transport | ||
| 563 | Semi chemical woodpulp | ||
| 564 | Sheep and goat meat | ||
| 565 | Silver | $0.48 | |
| 566 | Metal bars | ||
| 567 | Metal ingots | $0.16 | |
| 568 | Sulfite chemical woodpulp | ||
| 569 | Sulfuric acid | ||
| 570 | Titanium ore | ||
| 571 | Tomatoes | ||
| 572 | Uranium and thorium ore | ||
| 573 | Vanilla | ||
| 574 | Vermouth | ||
| 575 | Wine | $0.12 | |
| 576 | Zinc powder |
About the data
We analyzed U.S. International Trade Commission data on goods imported for consumption in 2024. We used product descriptions from the Observatory of Economic Complexity to label the goods, and edited these descriptions lightly.
For the lists of major imports and exports, and the full searchable list, we grouped goods using the first four digits of their code in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule, which lists categories of products. For more specific lists of goods within these categories, we looked at the first six digits of the product code.
We excluded goods that are widely produced in the U.S., using export data to remove goods where the U.S. exports at least 50 percent of what it imports by value. (We did not do this for the critical minerals or imports by quantity data.)
