Shipped Where
Imported, 2025Imported 2025
$840 million$840M
vs 2010
1.2× (nominal)
Arrived by shipBy ship
99%
Busiest portTop port
Newark, NJ

Most imported cashews come from Vietnam: 88% of $840 million.

Côte d'Ivoire is second at 6%. In-shell and shelled cashews.

Where US cashews come from, 2025Where it comes from

Share by value of the $840M the US imported, by country of originShare by value, by country of origin

  1. 01Vietnam$740M88.1%
  2. 02Côte d'Ivoire$53.2M6.3%
  3. 03Brazil$15.8M1.9%
  4. 04Thailand$9.7M1.2%
  5. 05Benin$5.1M0.6%
  6. 06Ghana$4.2M0.5%
  7. 07Nigeria$3.8M0.4%
  8. 08India$2.6M0.3%
  9. 09Indonesia$2.4M0.3%
  10. 10United Arab Emirates$423K<0.1%
  11. All othersEveryone else combined: $2.5M0.3%

Total US cashews imports by year · $706M in 2010 to $840M in 2025Replay the ranking year by year, 2010 to 2025

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Then and now: 2015 vs 2025Then and now

Each country's share of US cashews imports. Gray bar is 2015, colored bar is 2025.Share of US cashews imports. Gray is 2015, color is 2025.

Vietnam69% → 88%
Côte d'Ivoire2.1% → 6.3%
Nigeria<0.1% → 0.4%
Benin0.3% → 0.6%
Ghana0.4% → 0.5%
United Arab Emirates0% → <0.1%
Thailand1.3% → 1.2%
Indonesia1.3% → 0.3%
Brazil4% → 1.9%
India19% → 0.3%
2015 share2025, gained2025, lost

Where it comes from

Bigger circle = more value, 2025. Numbers match the list.

Vietnam alone sends 88%, and Côte d'Ivoire, Brazil and Thailand add another 9%. Africa is the next-largest source region at 8%.

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  1. 01Vietnam
  2. 02Côte d'Ivoire
  3. 03Brazil
  4. 04Thailand
  5. 05Benin
  6. 06Ghana
  7. 07Nigeria
  8. 08India

Where it lands

US port where it entered, 2025. Letters match the list.

99% arrives by ship, almost all in containers, mostly through East and West Coast ports. Newark takes 33%. Norfolk and Los Angeles follow at 29% and 18%.

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  1. ANewark, NJ $278M
  2. BNorfolk, VA $244M
  3. CLos Angeles, CA $151M
  4. DOakland, CA $80.3M
  5. ELong Beach, CA $26.6M
  6. FSavannah, GA $22.1M
More detail: states listed on entry paperworkMore detail: states on paperwork

This is the destination written on customs forms, often a warehouse or distributor near the port. It is not where the cashews is used.

Four states are listed for over $100M each.

  1. 01New Jersey$285M
  2. 02California$227M
  3. 03New York$109M
  4. 04Virginia$101M
  5. 05Florida$47.6M
$100M+$40–100M$10–40M$1–10MUnder $1M

Counted under HS 080131, 080132. How we count.