Trade flows

Copper imports

Name: Copper imports — U.S. manufacturing data
Creator: MFG Calcs
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

As of Apr 2026, copper imports stands at $13.71B (Census International Trade), rising over the recent window.

What this measures and why it matters

Copper imports tracks the monthly dollar value crossing the U.S. border in this commodity group. Import volume is the pressure gauge behind tariff, reshoring, and sourcing decisions: when it climbs, domestic suppliers face more foreign competition, and when it falls, it often signals reshoring or softening demand.
The figure comes from Census International Trade and is reported in USD/month. MFG Calcs archives every published value, so the chart and table below show the full recorded history rather than a single snapshot, and they extend automatically as new data lands.

Latest reading: $13.71B for Apr 2026.
Prior period: $2.53B (Mar 2026), a rise of 11181088061.00.
Compared with a year earlier, copper imports is up 395.6%.
Across the archived window the high was $13.71B in Apr 2026 and the low was $1.06B in Nov 2025.
The series has moved up for 1 consecutive periods.
13 observations have been archived so far, and this page deepens automatically each time Census International Trade publishes a new figure.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.