Shipped Where
Imported, 2025Imported 2025
$630 million$630M
vs 2010
2.3× (nominal)
Arrived by shipBy ship
23%
Busiest portTop port
Port Huron, MI

Most imported tissues & paper towels come from Canada: 69% of $630 million.

Indonesia is second at 8%. Facial tissue, towels and napkins of paper.

Where US tissues & paper towels come from, 2025Where it comes from

Share by value of the $630M the US imported, by country of originShare by value, by country of origin

  1. 01Canada$435M68.9%
  2. 02Indonesia$47.5M7.5%
  3. 03Mexico$47.2M7.5%
  4. 04China$26.0M4.1%
  5. 05Vietnam$19.6M3.1%
  6. 06Taiwan$14.0M2.2%
  7. 07Malaysia$9.7M1.5%
  8. 08Turkey$5.2M0.8%
  9. 09Cambodia$4.9M0.8%
  10. 10France$3.4M0.5%
  11. All othersEveryone else combined: $18.5M2.9%

Total US tissues & paper towels imports by year · $273M in 2010 to $630M 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 tissues & paper towels imports. Gray bar is 2015, colored bar is 2025.Share of US tissues & paper towels imports. Gray is 2015, color is 2025.

Indonesia2.6% → 7.5%
Canada65% → 69%
Vietnam<0.1% → 3.1%
Mexico5.6% → 7.5%
Malaysia0.2% → 1.5%
Taiwan1% → 2.2%
Turkey<0.1% → 0.8%
Cambodia0% → 0.8%
France0.1% → 0.5%
China22% → 4.1%
2015 share2025, gained2025, lost

Where it's made

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

Canada alone sends 69%, and Indonesia, Mexico, China and Vietnam add another 22%. Asia is the next-largest source region at 20%.

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  1. 01Canada
  2. 02Indonesia
  3. 03Mexico
  4. 04China
  5. 05Vietnam
  6. 06Taiwan
  7. 07Malaysia
  8. 08Turkey

Where it enters

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

77% comes in by land or other routes, not by ship or air. Port Huron alone takes 22%. Champlain-Rouses Point and Buffalo-Niagara Falls follow at 14% and 10%.

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

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  1. APort Huron, MI $141M
  2. BChamplain-Rouses Point, NY $85.6M
  3. CBuffalo-Niagara Falls, NY $62.1M
  4. DAlexandria Bay, NY $52.4M
  5. ELos Angeles, CA $37.0M
  6. FHighgate Springs-Alburgh, VT $31.6M
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 tissues & paper towels is used.

15 states are listed for over $10M each.

  1. 01California$93.5M
  2. 02Massachusetts$65.7M
  3. 03New York$64.0M
  4. 04New Jersey$59.4M
  5. 05Texas$47.3M
$10M+$4–10M$1–4M$100K–1MUnder $100K

Counted under HS 481820. How we count.