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The US Trade Ledger — every US container gateway, every partner country, every month — and what each one actually paid at the border.

What goods from South Korea actually pay

All products, from official duty receipts. On average, South Korea’s goods paid 0.2% of their value at the US border in 2017-06 → peak 15% in 2025-09 → 7.5% in 2026-06, on $1.2B of duty in the latest month.

What South Korea's goods actually paid on average — duty collected as % of everything shipped, monthly. Peak 15% (2025-09).

Duty dollars collected, monthly. Counted at customs entry; refunds ordered afterwards are not subtracted. Leaves out anti-dumping duties and fees.

What it pays it on — top chapters, 2026-06

Vehicles & parts ch 87 13.8% paid $416M duty Machinery & mechanical appliances ch 84 3.2% paid $148M duty Electronics & electrical equipment ch 85 2.9% paid $110M duty Aluminium ch 76 49.0% paid $105M duty Articles of iron & steel ch 73 46.3% paid $103M duty Iron & steel ch 72 48.3% paid $86M duty Plastics ch 39 9.9% paid $34M duty Perfumery & cosmetics ch 33 9.9% paid $23M duty Copper ch 74 28.0% paid $18M duty Optical, medical & precision instruments ch 90 9.5% paid $15M duty

Each row links to that chapter’s own page — its rate history, every origin that pays it, and the measures in force.

The stickers, and South Korea

No trade-war measure names South Korea in its scope. What its goods pay comes from the ordinary schedule plus the sectoral measures — steel, aluminium, cars — which apply by product, from every origin. See the chapter pages above for those.

Go deeper

The South Korea corridor in cargo · the whole tariff story · any product from here: tariff_burden(origin: "South Korea", commodity: "8471") via /connect. Not customs or legal advice.

In print: “What goods from South Korea actually pay at the US border” — Trimtab US Trade Ledger (TT-010 Duty receipts), US Census imports-for-consumption records — trimtabist.com/tariff-on-goods-from-south-korea