US imports of Wrist watches, pocket watches and other watches

US imports under HTS 9102 at a glance

Between March and July 2026, US importers entered $2.18 billion of wrist watches, pocket watches and other watches under HTS heading 9102, from 42 of the 55 origin countries covered here and across 117 ten-digit tariff lines — roughly $437 million a month of customs value under a single four-digit heading.

The heading belongs to chapter 91, clocks, watches and parts thereof. Classification disputes in this range usually turn on the six-digit subheading, which is where the rates start to diverge.

Who exports wrist watches, pocket watches and other watches to the United States

Switzerland supplies 83.8% of everything entered under this heading — $1.83 billion over the five months — which makes this a single-source market in practice. Japan is a distant second at 9.1%, then China at 2.5%. When one origin carries this much of a heading, a tariff action aimed at that country moves the landed cost of the whole category rather than shifting share between suppliers.

The supply base is spread across regions rather than clustered in one, with Switzerland, Japan, China and Germany all shipping meaningful volume. That gives an importer options on transit time and duty exposure — but the same product can arrive under different rates depending on where it was made.

What importers actually paid in duty

Almost everything under this heading is dutiable: 99.2% of entered value carried duty, and CBP collected $349 million over the five months. The effective rate on dutiable value was 16.1%, which works out to $15.96 of duty per $100 of goods. There is no meaningful duty-free channel here — classification and origin are the only levers.

The spread between origins is real. Among origins with at least 2% of the heading, China paid the most duty relative to value — $20.92 per $100 — while Switzerland paid $15.76. On a $250,000 purchase order that gap is about $13,000 in duty alone, which is worth pricing into a sourcing decision rather than discovering on the entry summary.

The 10-digit lines under heading 9102

117 ten-digit lines carried trade under this heading in the period. The largest, 9102.21.70.10 (with strap, band or bracelet of textile material or of base metal), took 19.6% of the heading at $429 million. 9102.21.90.10, 9102.21.70.20 and 9102.21.90.20 follow. Rates diverge between those lines, so the classification your broker files is worth checking against the goods rather than carried over from the last entry.

What the duty stack looks like

The rate on an entry is not one number. It is a stack: the general (column 1) rate for the 10-digit line, less any trade-agreement preference the goods qualify for, plus whatever additional duties apply to that product and origin, all applied to the customs value declared. The $15.96 per $100 above is what that stack averaged across every entry in this heading — a benchmark, not a quote.

For the origins carrying the most volume, the per-country breakdowns go a level deeper: Switzerland (9102.21.70), Japan (9102.11.25) and China (9102.12.80). To price a specific shipment, put your 10-digit code and country of origin into the tariff simulator.

What this means for your next shipment

The numbers above are a starting point, not the answer for a specific shipment: the rate depends on the exact 10-digit line, the origin, and any trade-agreement claim you can substantiate. Airlift USA arranges the ocean and air movement and coordinates classification and entry filing through our licensed broker network.

For the operational side rather than the tariff side, see the E-commerce Ready Consumer Goods guide for how this cargo moves and the heading index to compare against the rest of chapter 91.