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China's Share of U.S. Powered Hand Tools Imports Falls to 29%

China supplied 62.4% of U.S. powered hand tools imports in 2018 and 29.2% in 2025, a 33.2-point shift. Vietnam picked up the most of it, 24.5 points, and China now leads at 29.2%. Whether the re-route is actually…

China supplied 62.4% of U.S. powered hand tools imports in 2018 and 29.2% in 2025, a 33.2-point shift. Vietnam picked up the most of it, 24.5 points, and China now leads at 29.2%. Whether the re-route is actually cheaper turns on duty and freight, not the invoice price.

The year-by-year track of China's share: 2018: 62.4% · 2019: 63.8% · 2020: 52.7% · 2021: 45.3% · 2022: 42.7% · 2023: 35.1% · 2024: 36.8% · 2025: 29.2%. A shift this steady across seven years is structural — tariff differentials, buyer de-risking, and capacity built elsewhere — rather than a single year's price story.

For a buyer the actionable question is the landed comparison: the new lane's invoice price plus its effective duty plus its freight, against the old one's. The tariff monitor carries the per-country effective rates for this family, which is where that arithmetic starts.

Published 2026-08-14.