Trade flows

Plastics imports

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

As of Apr 2026, plastics imports stands at $34.86B (Census International Trade), rising over the recent window.

What this measures and why it matters

Plastics 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: $34.86B for Apr 2026.
Prior period: $5.91B (Mar 2026), a rise of 28947962513.00.
Compared with a year earlier, plastics imports is up 470.1%.
Across the archived window the high was $34.86B in Apr 2026 and the low was $5.01B in Feb 2026.
The series has moved up for 2 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13 observations have been archived so far, and this page deepens automatically each time Census International Trade publishes a new figure.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.