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The US Trade Ledger — every US container gateway, every partner country, every month — and what each one actually paid at the border.

What goods from China actually pay

All products, from official duty receipts. On average, China’s goods paid 2.7% of their value at the US border in 2017-06 → peak 47.9% in 2025-05 → 21.7% in 2026-06, on $5.2B of duty in the latest month.

What China's goods actually paid on average — duty collected as % of everything shipped, monthly. Peak 47.9% (2025-05).

Duty dollars collected, monthly. Counted at customs entry; refunds ordered afterwards are not subtracted. Leaves out anti-dumping duties and fees.

What it pays it on — top chapters, 2026-06

Electronics & electrical equipment ch 85 19.6% paid $1020M duty Machinery & mechanical appliances ch 84 24.0% paid $881M duty Vehicles & parts ch 87 44.4% paid $394M duty Articles of iron & steel ch 73 57.6% paid $334M duty Plastics ch 39 22.1% paid $276M duty Furniture & bedding ch 94 28.6% paid $268M duty Toys, games & sports equipment ch 95 11.9% paid $171M duty Optical, medical & precision instruments ch 90 19.2% paid $162M duty Knit apparel ch 61 32.2% paid $152M duty Aluminium ch 76 65.2% paid $144M duty

Each row links to that chapter’s own page — its rate history, every origin that pays it, and the measures in force.

The stickers pointed at China

These are the Chapter 99 measures whose scope names this origin — the trade war’s add-on codes, each with the Federal Register document that created it. They do not sum: which ones reach a given product is set list by list, and some of those lists were published as PDF attachments we have not machine-read yet. Absence from this table is never proof of exemption; the citation is what settles it. What was actually collected is the number at the top of this page.

Notice of Modification: China's Acts, Policies and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Prop
sticker 9903.91.03 · the document that created it +100%

Notice of Modification: China's Acts, Policies and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Prop
sticker 9903.91.08 · the document that created it +100%

Notice of Modification and Proposed Modification of Section 301 Action: China's Targeting of the Maritime, Log
sticker 9903.91.14 · the document that created it +100%

Notice of Modification: China's Acts, Policies and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Prop
sticker 9903.91.02 · the document that created it +50%

Notice of Modification: China's Acts, Policies and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Prop
sticker 9903.91.05 · the document that created it +50%

Notice of Modification: China's Acts, Policies and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Prop
sticker 9903.91.07 · the document that created it +50%

Chapter 99 measure
sticker 9903.01.64 +35%

Notice of Implementation of Additional Duties on Products of the People's Republic of China Pursuant to the Pr
sticker 9903.01.63 · the document that created it +34%

Notice of Action Pursuant to Section 301: China's Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Technology Transfer
sticker 9903.88.02 · the document that created it +25%

Go deeper

The China corridor in cargo · the whole tariff story · any product from here: tariff_burden(origin: "China", commodity: "8471") via /connect. Not customs or legal advice.

In print: “What goods from China actually pay at the US border” — Trimtab US Trade Ledger (TT-010 Duty receipts), US Census imports-for-consumption records — trimtabist.com/tariff-on-goods-from-china