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China’s Share of U.S. Lithium-Ion Battery Imports

Imports of lithium-ion batteries from China as a share of all U.S. imports of them, monthly, %

37% in Aug 2026+0 pp since Jan 2013
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Reading overdue·Data to Aug 2026

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U.S. Census Bureau, Palanor calculation. Country of origin as declared at the border; monthly values are noisy, so read the trend.

How much of America’s lithium-ion battery imports come from China, month by month. A falling share can mean fewer batteries from China or simply more from everyone else; the companion chart shows which.

What this chart reads

Sources

China's Share of U.S. Lithium-Ion Battery Imports. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. International Trade in Goods, monthly HS6 detail, via the Census International Trade API. Census trade data are in the public domain. This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.

Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.

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