Shipped Where
Imported from Zambia, 2025
$322 million
Share of all US imports
under 0.1%
Rank among sources
#104 of 218
Arrived by ship
85%

Zambia is the 104th largest source of US imports: $322 million in 2025.

That is under 0.1% of everything the US imported. The top product line is copper.

What the US buys from Zambia

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

  1. 01Copper$249M · 77.4%
  2. 02Precious and semiprecious stones, not strung, mounted etc.$41M · 12.8%
  3. 03Coffee$22.3M · 6.9%
  4. 04Seeds, fruit and spores, of a kind used for sowing$1M · 0.3%
  5. 05Tobacco, unmanufactured$738K · 0.2%
  6. 06Honey$320K · <0.1%
  7. 07Car parts$234K · <0.1%
  8. 08Transmission shafts and gears$192K · <0.1%
All 23 products from Zambia
  1. 09Articles of natural or cultured pearls$141K · <0.1%
  2. 10Collections, collectors' pieces archaeol, ethnographic$136K · <0.1%
  3. 11Electric motors and generators$136K · <0.1%
  4. 12Phones and network equipment$105K · <0.1%
  5. 13Ferroalloys$100K · <0.1%
  6. 14Flour and meal of dried leguminous vegetables$94K · <0.1%
  7. 15Compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines$90K · <0.1%
  8. 16Lumber$50K · <0.1%
  9. 17Pepper of the genus piper$47K · <0.1%
  10. 18Paints and varnishes based on synthetic polymers or chemically$43K · <0.1%
  11. 19Jewelry$43K · <0.1%
  12. 20Surveying, hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological$26K · <0.1%
  13. 21Basketwork, wickerwork and other articles$16K · <0.1%
  14. 22Fine art$16K · <0.1%
  15. 23Computers and computer units$8K · <0.1%

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

US imports from Zambia 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 Zambia, 2025. Letters match the list.

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85% of goods from Zambia arrived by ship. Baltimore, MD handled 37% on its own.

  1. ABaltimore, MD $119M · 36.9%
  2. BNew Orleans, LA $86.1M · 26.8%
  3. CJFK Airport, NY $29.9M · 9.3%
  4. DLos Angeles, CA $28.3M · 8.8%
  5. ENorfolk, VA $20.7M · 6.4%
  6. FLos Angeles Airport (LAX), CA $13.9M · 4.3%

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