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July Smartphone Imports to US Fell 15% to 15.5M

July smartphone imports fell 15% from a year earlier, to 15.5 million, per Census Bureau data we accessed Monday through the International Trade Commission’s DataWeb portal. The average handset was $281.39, a 15% increase. South Korea produced 2.7% of the…

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total, with its 431,000 handsets up 127%. It had the most expensive smartphone imports to the U.S. at $639.34 on average. That's nearly 2.5 times more expensive than China, which ranks No. 1 in sending such phones to America.