How we count

Shipped Where turns US government trade data into something you can read at a glance: pick a product, see where it comes from, where it lands and where it heads next.

This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.

Where the numbers come from

All trade figures come from the US Census Bureau International Trade API. We use annual import data for 2010 to 2025, taking each year's December year-to-date value as the full-year total. Data covers three views: port by country by product, state by country by product, and national totals. We don't use monthly data, and a year only appears once all twelve months are published.

Shares, rankings, rounded values and generated facts are our own calculations from Census data. The Census Bureau hasn't reviewed them.

What the words mean

• Value is the customs value of general imports in nominal US dollars. It isn't adjusted for inflation, and it excludes freight and insurance.
• Country is the country of origin reported to Census, which is where goods were made or grown. It isn't necessarily the country they shipped from.
• Port is the Census port code where goods entered. Some codes cover a wider district or a group of terminals, and inland cities can appear because that's where air cargo clears customs. A pin on our maps marks an approximate location.
• State is the state of destination on entry paperwork. It's an approximation of where goods were headed next, not where they were consumed. Goods with an unidentified state (code XX) aren't on our maps, and Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands appear only in port lists.
• Transport mode comes from Census vessel, containerized vessel and air values. Anything else, mostly truck, rail and pipeline, is shown as the remainder.

Limits worth knowing

• Some detailed cells are suppressed or confidential, so port and state breakdowns may not add up exactly to national totals. National figures are the headline, and breakdowns show what we can see.
• Harmonized System codes changed in 2012, 2017 and 2022. Where a curated product spans a change we map old and new codes together and note it on the product page. A few products only have a line of their own in recent years, so their history starts later.
• Curated products are our own groupings of HS codes. They can overlap, as electric cars also count in cars, so don't add them together. Each page lists the codes it uses.
• Census publishes revisions, so figures here can differ slightly from a newer release.

Map geometry

World and US outlines come from the open world-atlas and us-atlas datasets, based on Natural Earth and the US Census Bureau. Borders are for orientation only.