MFG Calcs Signals

Customs Unit-Value Movers

Name: Customs Unit-Value Movers: U.S. Manufacturing
Creator: MFG Calcs
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Aggregate customs unit value (customs value divided by reported quantity) for eligible U.S. manufacturing families, and its change between two adjacent years.

What this Signal shows

Compare aggregate customs unit values over one common adjacent-year pair, with product-, origin-, and quantity-mix caveats.

Cadence, source and downloads

Cadence: Annual per year, refreshed automatically as USITC posts new customs data.
Customs unit value = declared customs value / reported quantity from USITC DataWeb; an aggregate across a family's lines and origins, not a transaction or quoted market price. Full method at /signals/import-prices.
Free to download as Board (CSV), Full board (JSON), Methodology (JSON) under CC BY 4.0.

Last reviewed 2026-10-01.