Shipped Where
Imported, 2025Imported 2025
$312 million$312M
vs 2010
6.3× (nominal)
Arrived by shipBy ship
90%
Busiest portTop port
Newark, NJ

The US buys the most ice cream from Italy: 20% of $312 million.

South Africa is second at 11%. Ice cream and other edible ice.

Where US ice cream comes from, 2025Where it comes from

Share by value of the $312M the US imported, by country of originShare by value, by country of origin

  1. 01Italy$61.2M19.6%
  2. 02South Africa$35.5M11.4%
  3. 03South Korea$34.5M11.0%
  4. 04Slovenia$30.5M9.8%
  5. 05Brazil$26.9M8.6%
  6. 06Canada$23.4M7.5%
  7. 07China$9.6M3.1%
  8. 08Turkey$8.8M2.8%
  9. 09France$8.6M2.8%
  10. 10Mexico$8.0M2.6%
  11. All othersEveryone else combined: $64.8M20.8%

Total US ice cream imports by year · $49.2M in 2010 to $312M 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 ice cream imports. Gray bar is 2015, colored bar is 2025.Share of US ice cream imports. Gray is 2015, color is 2025.

Italy6.9% → 20%
Slovenia0% → 9.8%
Brazil0.1% → 8.6%
China<0.1% → 3.1%
Turkey0.1% → 2.8%
Canada7.1% → 7.5%
France3.4% → 2.8%
South Africa14% → 11%
South Korea17% → 11%
Mexico16% → 2.6%
2015 share2025, gained2025, lost

Where it's made

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

No single region supplies most imported ice cream. Europe leads at 42%, then Asia at 21%. Italy and South Africa send 31% between them, and South Korea, Slovenia and Brazil add another 29%.

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  1. 01Italy
  2. 02South Africa
  3. 03South Korea
  4. 04Slovenia
  5. 05Brazil
  6. 06Canada
  7. 07China
  8. 08Turkey

Where it lands

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

90% arrives by ship, almost all in containers, mostly through East and West Coast ports. Newark alone takes 31%. Los Angeles and Savannah follow at 14% and 13%.

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  1. ANewark, NJ $95.4M
  2. BLos Angeles, CA $43.2M
  3. CSavannah, GA $41.5M
  4. DHouston, TX $24.7M
  5. EBaltimore, MD $14.6M
  6. FOakland, CA $11.3M
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 ice cream is used.

Eight states are listed for over $10M each.

  1. 01California$55.0M
  2. 02Pennsylvania$52.2M
  3. 03Tennessee$33.3M
  4. 04New Jersey$31.0M
  5. 05Texas$27.5M
$10M+$4–10M$1–4M$100K–1MUnder $100K

Counted under HS 2105. How we count.