Machinery Imports by the Month: Where $89.54B/month Sits in the Census Record

At $89.54B/month, the latest monthly reading of U.S. machinery and mechanical appliances imports, Aug 2026, per Census International Trade data, sits 93% of the way up the archived range and is up about 61.6% from a year ago, with the committed trend reading rising. Here is the month-by-month record behind that placement.

The archived record: low, high, and the band between

Across the five-year archive, the series has printed as low as $32.71B in Feb 2022 and as high as $93.93B in Jul 2026, a spread of $61.22B in customs value. Tariff dates, high-value entries, port timing, prices, currency, and product mix are all possible contributors to an extreme month, but the aggregate chart does not identify which one. Read each fresh print against the band and investigate composition before calling it equipment demand.

• Archived low, Feb 2022: $32.71B (Softest month in the live record)
• Latest, Aug 2026: $89.54B/month (+173.7% vs. the low, -4.7% vs. the high)
• Archived high, Jul 2026: $93.93B (Heaviest month in the live record)

Level versus trend

The level, $89.54B/month, standing +173.7% above the archived low, reports declared customs value, not how much equipment is physically flowing. The trend is currently rising, with the latest month up about 61.6% from a year ago; the percentile places that dollar reading inside its archived range. Comparing it with manufacturing production supplies context but cannot separate a genuine equipment cycle from price, currency, and product-mix effects.

Machinery imports per month, Aug 2026: $89.54B/month. Ranged from $32.71B in Feb 2022 to $93.93B in Jul 2026 across the archived history.

The run-rate arithmetic

Annualized, the current month implies $1074.51B of machinery customs value, about $2,985 million in declared value a day. A one-percent shift is roughly $895 million; that arithmetic does not establish that smaller moves are measurement noise, because Census revisions and variance are not estimated here. Persistence and the year-over-year comparison, currently up about 61.6% from a year ago, reduce sensitivity to one month but do not remove price or mix ambiguity.

A one-percent move is a dollar change, not automatically measurement noise. Persistence helps, but composition still decides what the move means.

Use the tariff impact calculator to apply a duty-rate scenario to your own covered imported-equipment customs value; the national series does not measure your exposure. Model the policy scenarios