London – China has topped the tables for exporting refrigerators to the US for the past five years and there is no sign of that stopping, according to US import statistics.
In the first six months of 2019 a total of 7.52m refrigerators were imported into the US. This is down on the 2018 figure of 7.68m.
In total 96.3% of imports in the first half of 2019 came from five countries: China, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand and Turkey.
China dominates the trade with 49.4% of all the refrigerators imported coming from that country. This is down slightly on the average of the previous five years which was 54.3%.
The slack has been taken up by other countries. South Korea grew its share of imports from 4.9% in the first six months of 2018 to 7.8% or 7.52m units.
The data in this report is collected by the US International Trade Commission DataWeb using data collected by the US Bureau of the Census. Accessed late August 2019. It includes data for large and small chess freezers, upright freezers, display counter, and household refrigerators.
