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Electrical Equipment Imports Surge to $55.9 billion in June 2026

U.S. electrical equipment imports totalled $55.9 billion in June 2026, up 8.5% on the month and up 33.8% on the year. The most recent full-year unit-price data (2025 over 2024) says price has been doing real work in this lane: capacitors, resistors, and circuit boards unit prices rose 9.2%, and lamps and led lighting unit prices fell 4.4%.

The unit-price read, by family

Capacitors, Resistors, and Circuit Boards: unit price up 9.2% in 2025, effective duty 15.4%, $5.6 billion of annual customs value
Lamps and LED Lighting: unit price down 4.4% in 2025, effective duty 18.2%, $2.2 billion of annual customs value
Semiconductors and Integrated Circuits: unit price down 2.3% in 2025, effective duty 3.2%, $52.5 billion of annual customs value

The split matters because a value rise driven by price is inflation landing on buyers, while a rise driven by volume is demand or restocking. The family-level unit prices point to the former here, with the caveat that the unit-price data is full-year (2025) while the flow above is monthly.

Import figures are census customs values — landed cost adds duty and freight on top, which is where the effective tariff rates bite. Source: Census International Trade.

Published 2026-08-14.