What is the price of mucilages and thickeners in US?

As of January 2025, mucilages and thickeners in US is US$ 20.87 per kg (US$ 9.47 / lb), sourced from UN Comtrade (unit value).

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Mucilages And Thickeners Prices in US

US$ 20.87 / kg

US$ 9.47 / lb

MoM ▼ 0.1% YoY ▼ 0.1%

Checked: Jun 10, 2026

Price as of: January 2025

Source: UN Comtrade (unit value)

Variety	Market level	Price (US$/kg)	Price (US$/lb)	Local (USD)	MoM	YoY	Source
-	Export (unit value)	20.87	9.47	-	▼ 0.1%	▼ 0.1%	UN Comtrade (unit value)

As of June 2026, the mucilages and thickeners price in US available is US$ 20.87 per kg (US$ 9.47 / lb), down 0.1% year-on-year.

The US exported mucilages and thickeners valued at US$623.3 million in 2024, totaling 29,839 tonnes. It ranked 4th among 117 exporters, accounting for 7.5% of global exports and showing an 8.4% year-on-year increase. The latest export unit value was US$20.87 per kg. The US is a net exporter of these products.

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Production, Exports, Imports & HS Codes - mucilages and thickeners in US

Exports UN Comtrade · 2024

In 2024, US exported $623.3M (29.8 kt) of mucilages and thickeners▲ 8.4% YoY. That ranks #4 worldwide (7.5% of global exports).

$623.3M

Export value

29.8 kt

Export volume

#4 / 117

World rank

7.5%

Global share

$20.89

Avg export price / kg

Export value by year (US$)

Export volume by year

Top mucilages and thickeners exporters worldwide UN Comtrade · 2024

#1 China $2.18B · 26.3%
#2 India $982.2M · 11.8%
#3 Germany $665.2M · 8%
#4 US $623.3M · 7.5%
#5 Spain $601.5M · 7.2%

Annual export data US · UN Comtrade

Year	Export value (US$)	Volume	Avg price/kg
2024	$623.3M	29.8 kt	$20.89
2023	$575.1M	26.5 kt	$21.69
2022	$661M	31.4 kt	$21.07
2021	$604.9M	29.3 kt	$20.65
2020	$572M	26.5 kt	$21.56

HS Code

mucilages and thickeners is traded under Harmonized System code 1302. Trade figures above are compiled for this HS heading.

Sources: trade & HS - UN Comtrade. Values are official reported figures.

US mucilages and thickeners - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes

The volume of mucilages and thickeners exported by US in 2020 was 11,004 tons. In 2019 US shipped 11,909 tonnes of mucilages and thickeners. Across 2019 alone, the interest in US mucilages and thickeners (agro commodities category) has shrunk, with a change of -23.943 percent compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, mucilages and thickeners' exports reduced by -20.72 pc netting the exporter US$111.99m for the year 2019. US' mucilages and thickeners exports are classified as:

Mucilages and thickeners, derived from locust beans, locust bean seeds or guar seeds, whether or not modified (HS code 130232)
Mucilages and thickeners derived from vegetable products, whether or not modified (excluding from locust beans, locust bean seeds, guar seeds and agar-agar) (HS code 130239)

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US mucilages and thickeners export values

In 2019, US exported mucilages and thickeners worth 111.99m USD, a decrease of -14.07% from 2018's total mucilages and thickeners export of 130.322m USD. The annual change in value of US mucilages and thickeners between 2017 to 2018 was 9.294 per cent.

The annual change in the volume of US' mucilages and thickeners exports between 2017 and 2019 was -20.72 percent in comparison to a variation of -23.943% in the period between 2018 and 2019.

US' stake of the world's total mucilages and thickeners' exports in 2019 was 1.8 percent. US is ranked position 17 in world exports of mucilages and thickeners.

Export markets for US mucilages and thickeners ( in '000$ )

Import/Export Trends

US is a net exporter of mucilages and thickeners. The annual growth of US mucilages and thickeners in value between 2015 to 2019 was 4%, per annum, while annual growth in quantity through the same period was 8%, per annum.

US purchased 146,293 tonnes of mucilages and thickeners in 2019.

Other Agro Commodities Prices in US

Latest prices for other agro commodities in US:

Eggs$1.00/dozen Glucose$0.76/kg Seaweed$10.46/kg Bamboo$1.94/kg Bamboo shoots$1.62/kg Natural Gum Arabic$6.19/kg Sugarcane$0.08/kg Coffee Husks & Skins$4.59/kg Pyrethrum Extracts$6.82/kg Rattans$1.94/kg Sugar Beet$0.07/kg Kapok Fibre (Stuffing)$1.56/kg Bulgur wheat$0.63/kg Wood Ear$6.61/kg Raffia fiber$1.56/kg

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Mucilages and thickeners US

US$ 20.8693 / kg

generic Export (unit value) as of 2025-01-01

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