U.S. imports of Digital Processing Units for Data Processing Systems (SITC 75230) totaled $30.7B in August 2026, imported from 86 countries.
Importers of Digital Processing Units for Data Processing Systems paid $44.4M in duties in August 2026, an average duty rate of 0.15% — duty actually collected as a share of the imports that cleared customs, not the published tariff schedule. Digital Processing Units for Data Processing Systems imports of $30.7B in August 2026 ran 17% above the year-to-date monthly average of $26.3B.
Last updated: August 2026 dataStandalone central processing units — whether imported alone or alongside storage, input, or output peripherals — are classified here when they are not integrated into a single housing with those peripherals. This distinction is commercially significant for enterprise IT procurement, where servers and rack-mounted CPUs are frequently shipped separately from their associated components. Section 301 measures have applied to processing units sourced from certain countries, making origin documentation and first-sale valuation particularly important for high-volume importers.
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43.0K import shipments a month
Yes. The heading explicitly covers processing units 'whether or not presented with the rest of the system,' so a CPU shipped alongside storage or I/O components in the same shipment still qualifies here, provided the units are not physically integrated into a single housing.
For processing units with multiple intermediary transactions before US entry, importers may be eligible to use the first-sale price (the manufacturer-to-middleman price) as the customs value rather than the higher last-sale price. This requires documentary evidence of the earlier transaction and that the goods were destined for US export at the time of that sale — a determination best made with a licensed customs broker.
Basic heading 1 of 642 in section 7
Basic heading 75230 · $30.7B of $172.0B
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Imports · August 2026
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Mexico and Taiwan together supply 88% of it.
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$30.7BYoY · free account
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$4.9BYoY · free account
12-mo low · imports
Low · free accountOver the twelve months to August 2026, the U.S. imported $285.9B of Digital Processing Units for Data Processing Systems.
Through August 2026 · exports 10 of 12 months reported. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.