PPE - Safety Glasses: Market Size & Forecast 2026

The global safety glasses market reached approximately USD 3.8 billion in 2025 (base year), anchored by polycarbonate resin as the dominant input cost driver and shaped by two concurrent trade-policy inflections: the continuation of the 25% Section 301 List 3 duty on China-origin finished safety eyewear under the prior statutory framework, and the replacement of the invalid IEEPA regime with a Section 122 10% baseline surcharge effective 24 February 2026. For a buyer landing China-origin safety spectacles in the United States, the combined duty stack is approximately 40% ad valorem. European buyers face a distinct set of pressures: the EU's revised product standard EN ISO 16321-1:2022 legally replaced EN 166:2001 for new protective eyewear design, and the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (EU) 2025/40 applies from August 2026 with recycled-content and design-for-recyclability thre

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