Shipped Where
Imported, 2025Imported 2025
$140 billion$140B
vs 2010
0.5× (nominal)
Arrived by shipBy ship
43%
Busiest portTop port
Peoria, IL

Most imported crude oil comes from Canada: 61% of $140 billion.

Mexico is second at 6%. Crude petroleum, arriving by tanker and pipeline.

Where US crude oil comes from, 2025Where it comes from

Share of the $140B the US imported, by country of origin

  1. Canada$85.36B60.8%
  2. Mexico$8.67B6.2%
  3. Saudi Arabia$6.86B4.9%
  4. Brazil$5.13B3.7%
  5. Guyana$4.93B3.5%
  6. Colombia$4.76B3.4%
  7. Iraq$4.65B3.3%
  8. Nigeria$3.64B2.6%
  9. Venezuela$3.22B2.3%
  10. Ecuador$2.69B1.9%
  11. All othersEveryone else combined: $10.38B7.4%

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Then and now: 2015 vs 2025Then and now

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

Canada37% → 61%
Guyana0% → 3.5%
Nigeria1% → 2.6%
Brazil2.9% → 3.7%
Iraq3.4% → 3.3%
Ecuador3.3% → 1.9%
Colombia5.7% → 3.4%
Mexico9.9% → 6.2%
Venezuela10% → 2.3%
Saudi Arabia16% → 4.9%
2015 share2025, gained2025, lost

Where it's produced

Circle size = dollar value, 2025. Numbers match the list.

Canada alone sends 61%, and Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Guyana add another 18%. Latin America is the next-largest source region at 23%.

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  1. 1Canada
  2. 2Mexico
  3. 3Saudi Arabia
  4. 4Brazil
  5. 5Guyana
  6. 6Colombia
  7. 7Iraq
  8. 8Nigeria

Where it enters

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

57% comes in by land or other routes, not by ship or air. Peoria takes 14%. Chicago and Long Beach follow at 14% and 6%.

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

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  1. APeoria, IL $19.91B
  2. BChicago, IL $19.39B
  3. CLong Beach, CA $7.96B
  4. DPort Arthur, TX $7.38B
  5. EMinneapolis-St. Paul, MN $6.91B
  6. FTulsa, OK $6.17B
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 crude oil is used.

Three states are listed for over $10B each, and they mirror the top ports.

  1. Illinois$42.00B
  2. California$20.80B
  3. Texas$19.70B
  4. New Jersey$8.35B
  5. Minnesota$6.91B
$10B+$4–10B$1–4B$100M–1BUnder $100M

Counted under HS 2709. How we count.