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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 Japan actually pay

All products, from official duty receipts. On average, Japan’s goods paid 1.7% of their value at the US border in 2017-06 → peak 16.8% in 2025-08 → 9.9% in 2026-06, on $1.3B of duty in the latest month.

What Japan's goods actually paid on average — duty collected as % of everything shipped, monthly. Peak 16.8% (2025-08).

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

Vehicles & parts ch 87 14.1% paid $537M duty Machinery & mechanical appliances ch 84 9.5% paid $250M duty Electronics & electrical equipment ch 85 6.4% paid $126M duty Optical, medical & precision instruments ch 90 9.8% paid $56M duty Articles of iron & steel ch 73 48.8% paid $47M duty Iron & steel ch 72 46.4% paid $39M duty Rubber & tires ch 40 15.5% paid $29M duty Plastics ch 39 12.0% paid $28M duty Miscellaneous chemicals ch 38 7.7% paid $19M duty Tools & cutlery ch 82 13.0% paid $10M 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 Japan

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.

Implementing Certain Tariff-Related Elements of the United States-Japan Agreement
sticker 9903.02.30 · the document that created it +15%

Chapter 99 measure
sticker 9903.02.31 +15%

Adoption and Procedures of the Section 232 Steel and Aluminum Tariff Inclusions Process
sticker 9903.02.71 · the document that created it +15%

Implementing Certain Tariff-Related Elements of the United States-Japan Agreement
sticker 9903.02.73 · the document that created it +15%

Chapter 99 measure
sticker 9903.04.62 +15%

Implementing Certain Tariff-Related Elements of the U.S.-Korea Strategic Trade and Investment Deal
sticker 9903.76.21 · the document that created it +15%

Implementing Certain Tariff-Related Elements of the U.S.-Korea Strategic Trade and Investment Deal
sticker 9903.76.22 · the document that created it +15%

Implementing Certain Tariff-Related Elements of the United States-Japan Agreement
sticker 9903.94.41 · the document that created it +15%

Implementing Certain Tariff-Related Elements of the United States-Japan Agreement
sticker 9903.94.43 · the document that created it +15%

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

In print: “What goods from Japan 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-japan