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Electrical Machinery Imports by the Numbers: Where $55.87B 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 $55.87B per month as of Jun 2026, up about 33.8% 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 Jun 2026 high of $55.87B, 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 soft end (Feb 2022) and $55.87B at the heavy end (Jun 2026), a spread of $23.88B between the extremes. A band that wide in a customs-value series reflects more than demand: single months can be inflated by tariff front-running or a burst of high-value semiconductor entries, and deflated by duty dates passing or holiday shipping lulls. The lesson for anyone quoting this line is to name the month and read the level against the band, not in isolation.

The phase the series is in now

Phase analysis reduces the chart to two live facts: the year-over-year rate and the direction. The latest month is up about 33.8% from a year ago, and the committed trend is rising, together they describe the current phase of a flow that ultimately tracks electrification-heavy investment in grids, data centers, and automated plants. Comparing against the sibling Chapter 84 machinery line shows whether the electrical and mechanical halves of the capital-goods import bill are moving together; when they diverge, the difference is usually the semiconductor and electronics content unique to Chapter 85.

Electrical machinery imports per month, Jun 2026: $55.87B. Ranged from $31.99B in Feb 2022 to $55.87B in Jun 2026 across the archived history.

The arithmetic of the current pace

Annualized, the latest month implies $670.39B of electrical machinery and equipment imports a year, roughly $2,660 million each business day. Against the archived low, the current level stands +74.6%; 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.