Duty and Freight Add 3.3% to Insulated Wire and Cable From Mexico

Mexico shipped $17.7 billion of insulated wire and cable to U.S. buyers in 2025. USITC reported an effective calculated-duty rate of 2.6%, while measured freight added 0.7% of customs value — an additive 3.3% burden before domestic logistics. The MXN moved 3.9% in favor of the buyer over the last two weeks of the FX window. No country-specific unit value is available for this lane, so it is not ranked by landed unit cost.

• reported duty rate: 2.6%
• freight share: 0.7%
• total uplift: 3.3%

The alternatives, same arithmetic: Canada at 3.8% uplift, South Korea at 14.6% uplift, Japan at 15.5% uplift. No listed alternative has a lower duty-and-freight burden, but that alone does not establish the lowest landed unit cost.

The effective calculated-duty rate is USITC's reported calculated duty divided by the customs value covered by those duty observations for 2025; it is not a verified cash-payment amount or proof of any particular exclusion, quota, or trade-program claim. Freight is the lane's reported import-charges share of customs value. Reference data, not a customs quote.