Shipped Where
Imported from New Zealand, 2025
$5.6 billion
Share of all US imports
0.2%
Rank among sources
#50 of 218
Arrived by ship
86%

New Zealand is the 50th largest source of US imports: $5.6 billion in 2025.

That is 0.2% of everything the US imported. The top product line is frozen beef, followed by wine and lamb. Up from 51st in 2015.

What the US buys from New Zealand

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

  1. 01Frozen beef$1.1B · 19.8%
  2. 02Wine$473M · 8.5%
  3. 03Lamb$405M · 7.3%
  4. 04Whey and other products consisting of natural milk constituents$298M · 5.3%
  5. 05Fruit not elsewhere specified, fresh$198M · 3.5%
  6. 06Lumber$192M · 3.4%
  7. 07Casein, caseinates and other casein derivatives$186M · 3.3%
  8. 08Massage and therapy appliances$164M · 2.9%
All 23 products from New Zealand
  1. 09Butter$159M · 2.9%
  2. 10Fresh and chilled beef$147M · 2.6%
  3. 11Molluscs$111M · 2.0%
  4. 12Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their fractions$97.8M · 1.8%
  5. 13Honey$77.5M · 1.4%
  6. 14Albumins, albuminates & oth albumin deriv$73.6M · 1.3%
  7. 15Transformers and power supplies$73.3M · 1.3%
  8. 16Chipmaking equipment$61.2M · 1.1%
  9. 17Fish, fresh or chilled$51.4M · 0.9%
  10. 18Meat and edible meat offal not elsewhere specified, fresh$43.1M · 0.8%
  11. 19Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding$41.6M · 0.7%
  12. 20Blood products, antibodies and vaccines$39M · 0.7%
  13. 21Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats$38.4M · 0.7%
  14. 22Edible offal of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, horses etc.$37.9M · 0.7%
  15. 23Animal products not elsewhere specified$37.6M · 0.7%

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

US imports from New Zealand 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 New Zealand, 2025. Letters match the list.

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86% of goods from New Zealand arrived by ship. Philadelphia, PA handled 34% on its own.

  1. APhiladelphia, PA $1.9B · 34.3%
  2. BLong Beach, CA $548M · 9.8%
  3. COakland, CA $443M · 7.9%
  4. DLos Angeles, CA $393M · 7.0%
  5. ELos Angeles Airport (LAX), CA $372M · 6.7%
  6. FSeattle, WA $343M · 6.1%

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