U.S. imports of Silver (Including Gold & Platinum Plated Silver), Unwrought (SITC 68113) totaled $839.9M in August 2026, imported from 47 countries.
Importers of Silver (Including Gold & Platinum Plated Silver), Unwrought paid $134K in duties in August 2026, an average duty rate of 0.02% — duty actually collected as a share of the imports that cleared customs, not the published tariff schedule.
Last updated: August 2026 dataUnwrought silver — including silver that has been plated with gold or platinum — enters US trade as a primary precious-metals input for jewelry manufacturing, electronics, and monetary applications. Classification hinges on the form of the metal: unwrought means it has not been worked beyond casting or smelting, distinguishing it from semimanufactured bars, wire, or powder. Importers should note that silver bullion and unwrought forms can carry distinct duty treatment from fabricated silver products, and large-volume transactions are often tracked by commodity exchanges as well as customs.
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158 import shipments a month
Unwrought silver refers to metal in cast, ingot, or similarly unworked form — it has not been rolled, drawn, extruded, or otherwise mechanically processed. Once silver is rolled into sheet, drawn into wire, or reduced to powder, it moves into the semimanufactured category (SITC 68114). The distinction is critical because the two headings can carry different duty rates and are tracked separately in trade statistics.
No — silver that has been plated with gold or platinum remains classified under the silver heading (68113) as long as the base metal is silver and the article is still in unwrought form. The plating is acknowledged in the heading description but does not shift the product into a gold or platinum classification.
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Basic heading 68113 · $839.9M of $27.0B
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Imports · August 2026
origin
Mexico and Canada together supply 79% of it.
customs district
Census does not publish district detail for this classification system.
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Census does not publish state detail for this classification system.
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Census does not publish port detail for this classification system.
ImportsExports
Imports
$839.9MYoY · free account
Exports
$172.8MYoY · free account
12-mo low · imports
Low · free accountOver the twelve months to August 2026, the U.S. imported $8.1B of Silver (Including Gold & Platinum Plated Silver), Unwrought and exported $18.9B.
Through August 2026. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.