Shipped Where
Imported, 2025Imported 2025
$5.8 billion$5.8B
vs 2010
3.4× (nominal)
Arrived by shipBy ship
34%
Busiest portTop port
Newark, NJ

Most imported chocolate comes from Canada: 53% of $5.8 billion.

Mexico is second at 12%. Bars, candy and baking chocolate.

Where US chocolate comes from, 2025Where it comes from

Share by value of the $5.8B the US imported, by country of originShare by value, by country of origin

  1. 01Canada$3.06B53.1%
  2. 02Mexico$0.68B11.7%
  3. 03Belgium$0.30B5.2%
  4. 04Germany$0.24B4.2%
  5. 05Turkey$0.19B3.3%
  6. 06Italy$0.18B3.1%
  7. 07Poland$0.14B2.4%
  8. 08Switzerland$0.13B2.3%
  9. 09Croatia$98.0M1.7%
  10. 10France$85.0M1.5%
  11. All othersEveryone else combined: $0.67B11.6%

Total US chocolate imports by year · $1.7B in 2010 to $5.8B 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 chocolate imports. Gray bar is 2015, colored bar is 2025.Share of US chocolate imports. Gray is 2015, color is 2025.

Turkey0.3% → 3.3%
Croatia<0.1% → 1.7%
Italy1.6% → 3.1%
Poland1.2% → 2.4%
Belgium5.1% → 5.2%
Switzerland2.4% → 2.3%
France1.7% → 1.5%
Canada53% → 53%
Germany5.2% → 4.2%
Mexico20% → 12%
2015 share2025, gained2025, lost

Where it's made

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

Canada alone sends 53%, and Mexico, Belgium, Germany and Turkey add another 24%. Europe is the next-largest source region at 25%.

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  1. 01Canada
  2. 02Mexico
  3. 03Belgium
  4. 04Germany
  5. 05Turkey
  6. 06Italy
  7. 07Poland
  8. 08Switzerland

Where it enters

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

65% comes in by land or other routes, not by ship or air. Newark alone takes 17%. Port Huron and Highgate Springs-Alburgh follow at 12% and 10%.

Goods crossing by land are recorded at Census ports of entry, which can be inland.

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  1. ANewark, NJ $0.98B
  2. BPort Huron, MI $0.68B
  3. CHighgate Springs-Alburgh, VT $0.60B
  4. DLaredo, TX $0.58B
  5. EChamplain-Rouses Point, NY $0.51B
  6. FDetroit, MI $0.47B
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 chocolate is used.

One state is listed for over $1B.

  1. 01Pennsylvania$1.27B
  2. 02New Jersey$0.65B
  3. 03Illinois$0.64B
  4. 04Vermont$0.60B
  5. 05New York$0.49B
$1B+$400M–1B$100–400M$10–100MUnder $10M

Counted under HS 1806. How we count.