Tariff Monitor
Tariffs on Imports From Switzerland
In 2025, U.S. importers brought in $2.0B of goods from Switzerland among retained top-source rows across 9 tracked family boards, carrying an effective calculated-duty rate of 13.42%, up from 1.31% the year before. Switzerland's largest tracked categories: robots and automated machinery, electric motors and generators, measuring and inspection instruments. Tracked-family totals are a floor on total bilateral trade, from USITC DataWeb data.
The current reading
- Tracked imports from Switzerland: $2.0B in 2025 across 9 manufacturing families, a floor on total bilateral trade.
- Observed effective calculated-duty rate: 13.42% (1.31% the year before), reported Calculated Duties ÷ covered customs value.
- History depth: 12 years of annual named-source boards.
Largest tracked families from Switzerland
- Robots and automated machinery
- Electric motors and generators
- Measuring and inspection instruments
- Packaging and filling machinery
- Heat exchange and process heating
Frequently asked questions
- How much does the U.S. import from Switzerland? among retained top-source rows across 9 tracked manufacturing family boards, U.S. imports from Switzerland totaled $2.0B in customs value in 2025. That is a floor on total bilateral trade. It includes only tracked family boards where Switzerland appears among the retained largest sources.
- What effective calculated-duty rate is observed for imports from Switzerland? In 2025, imports from Switzerland had an effective calculated-duty rate of 13.42% across tracked families. The rate is reported Calculated Duties divided by the customs value covered by those duty observations, which reflects the combined product, origin, preference and tariff mix in USITC's statistics. A year earlier the rate was 1.31%.
- What does the U.S. import most from Switzerland? Among tracked manufacturing families, Switzerland's largest recent categories are robots and automated machinery, electric motors and generators, measuring and inspection instruments, packaging and filling machinery. Each has its own live rate page linked below.
- Is the tariff burden on Switzerland rising or falling? Rising: the effective rate on tracked imports from Switzerland moved +12.1 points year over year to 13.42% in 2025. Monthly family-level detail is on each linked family page.
About this data
- Reference statistics derived from USITC published data. Not a customs ruling. MFN-Free and Special-rate fields describe statutory line coverage only; final entry liability requires origin, date, eligibility, exclusions and other transaction facts. Calculated Duties are statistical estimates, not a cash-collections ledger. Confirm classification, origin, program eligibility, and final entry liability with a licensed customs broker.
Last reviewed 2026-08-31.