Shipped Where
Imported from Ghana, 2025
$1.2 billion
Share of all US imports
under 0.1%
Rank among sources
#83 of 218
Arrived by ship
90%

Ghana is the 83rd largest source of US imports: $1.2 billion in 2025.

That is under 0.1% of everything the US imported. The top product line is cocoa beans, followed by crude oil.

What the US buys from Ghana

Top products by value, 2025. Gray line is 2015 for comparison.

  1. 01Cocoa beans$433M · 35.6%
  2. 02Crude oil$270M · 22.2%
  3. 03Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted$214M · 17.6%
  4. 04Cocoa powder$64.9M · 5.3%
  5. 05Natural rubber$32.7M · 2.7%
  6. 06Men's or boys' shirts, knitted or crocheted$20.1M · 1.7%
  7. 07Lead, unwrought$17.5M · 1.4%
  8. 08Sweaters & hoodies$15.9M · 1.3%
All 23 products from Ghana
  1. 09Cocoa butter, fat and oil$14.4M · 1.2%
  2. 10Soybean oilcake and other solid residues resulting from$13.1M · 1.1%
  3. 11Cassava, arrowroot, salep, jerusalem artichokes$13M · 1.1%
  4. 12Prepared or preserved fish$8.7M · 0.7%
  5. 13Lumber$8.2M · 0.7%
  6. 14Original sculptures and statuary, in any material$6.1M · 0.5%
  7. 15Coconuts, brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried$4.7M · 0.4%
  8. 16Fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants$4.5M · 0.4%
  9. 17T-shirts$4.2M · 0.3%
  10. 18Fine art$3.9M · 0.3%
  11. 19Palm oil$3.6M · 0.3%
  12. 20Women's or girls' blouses and shirts, knitted or crocheted$3.3M · 0.3%
  13. 21Fixed vegetable or microbial fats and oils, including jojoba oil$3M · 0.2%
  14. 22Veneer sheets and sheets for plywood and other wood sawn lengthwise$2.7M · 0.2%
  15. 23Women's or girls' slips, petticoats, briefs, panties$2.3M · 0.2%

Excludes US goods returned after export and other special trade codes.

US imports from Ghana by year

Total value of goods, in nominal dollars. Labels mark the first year, the peak and the latest year.

Where it lands

US ports of entry for goods from Ghana, 2025. Letters match the list.

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90% of goods from Ghana arrived by ship. Newark, NJ handled 40% on its own.

  1. ANewark, NJ $490M · 40.3%
  2. BPhiladelphia, PA $358M · 29.4%
  3. CChicago, IL $89.7M · 7.4%
  4. DSavannah, GA $48.1M · 4.0%
  5. EOakland, CA $43M · 3.5%
  6. FCharleston, SC $35.1M · 2.9%

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