Shipped Where
Imported, 2025Imported 2025
$11.1 billion$11.1B
vs 2010
0.5× (nominal)
Arrived by shipBy ship
8%
Busiest portTop port
Eastport, ID

Most imported natural gas comes from Canada: 92% of $11.1 billion.

Trinidad and Tobago is second at 3%. Natural gas and propane.

Where US natural gas comes from, 2025Where it comes from

Share by value of the $11.1B the US imported, by country of originShare by value, by country of origin

  1. 01Canada$10.26B92.4%
  2. 02Trinidad and Tobago$0.31B2.8%
  3. 03Mexico$0.19B1.7%
  4. 04Equatorial Guinea$93.3M0.8%
  5. 05Nigeria$72.3M0.7%
  6. 06Qatar$40.9M0.4%
  7. 07Chile$36.1M0.3%
  8. 08South Korea$32.5M0.3%
  9. 09Argentina$20.4M0.2%
  10. 10Norway$10.3M<0.1%
  11. All othersEveryone else combined: $27.2M0.2%

Total US natural gas imports by year · $21.1B in 2010 to $11.1B 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 natural gas imports. Gray bar is 2015, colored bar is 2025.Share of US natural gas imports. Gray is 2015, color is 2025.

Canada87% → 92%
Mexico0.4% → 1.7%
Equatorial Guinea<0.1% → 0.8%
Qatar0% → 0.4%
Chile<0.1% → 0.3%
South Korea0.1% → 0.3%
Argentina<0.1% → 0.2%
Nigeria0.9% → 0.7%
Norway1.4% → <0.1%
Trinidad and Tobago8.4% → 2.8%
2015 share2025, gained2025, lost

Where it's produced

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

Canada alone sends 92%, and Trinidad and Tobago and Mexico add another 5%. Latin America is the next-largest source region at 5%.

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  1. 01Canada
  2. 02Trinidad and Tobago
  3. 03Mexico
  4. 04Equatorial Guinea
  5. 05Nigeria
  6. 06Qatar
  7. 07Chile
  8. 08South Korea

Where it enters

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

92% comes in by land or other routes, not by ship or air. Eastport takes 17%. Port Huron and Buffalo-Niagara Falls follow at 15% each.

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

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  1. AEastport, ID $1.85B
  2. BPort Huron, MI $1.68B
  3. CBuffalo-Niagara Falls, NY $1.63B
  4. DOgdensburg, NY $0.94B
  5. EBlaine, WA $0.78B
  6. FPort Townsend, WA $0.71B
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 natural gas is used.

Three states are listed for over $1B each.

  1. 01Washington$3.08B
  2. 02Illinois$1.58B
  3. 03New York$1.28B
  4. 04Massachusetts$0.98B
  5. 05Michigan$0.88B
$1B+$400M–1B$100–400M$10–100MUnder $10M

Counted under HS 2711. How we count.