Duty and Freight Add 4.0% to Turbines and Fluid-power Drives From Mexico

Mexico shipped $4.0 billion of turbines and fluid-power drives to U.S. buyers in 2025. USITC reported an effective calculated-duty rate of 2.8%, while measured freight added 1.1% of customs value — an additive 4.0% burden before domestic logistics. The MXN moved 1.5% 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: 2.8%
• freight share: 1.1%
• total uplift: 4.0%

The alternatives, same arithmetic: Canada at 2.3% uplift, United Kingdom at 2.4% uplift, France at 3.3% uplift. At least one listed lane has a lower duty-and-freight burden; total-cost ranking still requires comparable country-specific unit values.

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.