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Electrical Machinery Imports by the Numbers: Where $58.34B/month Sits in the Census Record

A data study charting the monthly series' live history, the archived peak and trough, the spread between them, and the growth rates that define the current phase.

U.S. electrical machinery and equipment imports stand at $58.34B/month per month as of Aug 2026, up about 47.0% from a year ago, with the Census series' committed trend reading rising. Set against the archived record, from a Feb 2022 low of $31.99B to a Aug 2026 high of $58.34B, the latest month sits 100% of the way up the band.

The record: trough, peak, and spread

The record across the five-year archive brackets the series between $31.99B at the low end (Feb 2022) and $58.34B at the high (Aug 2026), a spread of $26.35B in customs value. Tariff timing, high-value semiconductor entries, holidays, prices, currency, and product mix are possible contributors to an extreme month, but the aggregate chart does not identify them. Name the month, inspect composition, and avoid assigning a cause from the range alone.

  • Archived low, Feb 2022: $31.99B (Softest month in the live record)
  • Latest, Aug 2026: $58.34B/month (+82.4% vs. the low, 0.0% vs. the high)
  • Archived high, Aug 2026: $58.34B (Heaviest month in the live record)

The phase the series is in now

The latest year-over-year comparison is up about 47.0% from a year ago, and the committed customs-value trend is rising. Those are descriptive facts, not proof that the series tracks electrification-heavy investment. Comparing it with Chapter 84 shows whether two broad import bills move together; divergence does not identify semiconductor content without a product-level decomposition.

Electrical machinery imports per month, Aug 2026: $58.34B/month. Ranged from $31.99B in Feb 2022 to $58.34B in Aug 2026 across the archived history.

The arithmetic of the current pace

Annualized, the latest month implies $700.10B of electrical machinery and equipment imports a year, roughly $2,778 million each business day. Against the archived low, the current level stands +82.4%; against the archived high, 0.0%. For researchers, those three computed numbers, run rate, distance from trough, distance from peak, are the citable skeleton of the series, and each one refreshes automatically as Census publishes new months.

Name the month and read the level against the band. A customs-value series quoted without context is a number, not a fact.

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Published 2026-07-13.