US Tariff Rates by Country (August 2026): The Current Four-Tier System

Updated August 9, 2026 · Verified against Federal Register primary sources

Since July 24, 2026, most goods imported into the United States carry an additional Section 301 tariff on top of the normal (MFN) duty rate. The structure replaced the expired Section 122 global tariff and sorts roughly 60 investigated economies into four groups. This page reflects the official notice, 91 FR 47318 (Jul 28, 2026), not press summaries — several widely-shared third-party tables are already out of date.

The four tiers

Tier	Countries	What you pay
10% flat	Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Canada, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Trinidad & Tobago, United Kingdom	MFN rate + 10%
Top-up to 10%	European Union, Taiwan	Total of MFN + 301 is capped at 10%; if MFN is already ≥ 10%, the add-on is zero
Top-up to 12.5%	Japan, South Korea, Switzerland	Total of MFN + 301 is capped at 12.5%; if MFN is already ≥ 12.5%, the add-on is zero
12.5% flat	All other investigated economies, including China and Vietnam	MFN rate + 12.5%

What stacks on top of these tiers

China: the legacy China Section 301 lists (25% for Lists 1–3, 7.5% for List 4A) are separate actions and can apply in addition to the 12.5% tier.
Brazil: a separate 25% Section 301 action on Brazilian goods took effect July 22, 2026.
Canada: a 50% Section 338 tariff on motor vehicles, dairy, and alcoholic beverages takes effect August 19, 2026.
Section 232 products (steel, aluminum, copper, and others) are exempt from these tiers — an anti-stacking rule — but carry their own, often higher, duties.

The notice includes Annex exemptions (certain raw materials, informational materials, and other listed goods) and, for some economies, tariff-rate quotas. Whether your specific HTS code is exempt requires checking the annexes — this is exactly the kind of detail a monitoring service exists for.

Why this table will be stale soon

This is the fourth distinct tariff regime of 2026: IEEPA reciprocal tariffs were struck down by the Supreme Court on February 20; a temporary Section 122 tariff ran February 24 to July 24; the current tiers took effect the same day Section 122 expired; and new country-specific actions (Canada, Brazil) keep landing. If your margins depend on a rate in the table above, you need to know within a day when it moves.

Get pinged when these rates change

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