Shipped Where
Imported, 2025Imported 2025
$1.5 billion$1.5B
vs 2010
1.7× (nominal)
Arrived by shipBy ship
26%
Busiest portTop port
Champlain-Rouses Point, NY

Most imported pork comes from Canada: 64% of $1.5 billion.

Mexico is second at 11%. Fresh, chilled and frozen pork.

Where US pork comes from, 2025Where it comes from

Share by value of the $1.5B the US imported, by country of originShare by value, by country of origin

  1. 01Canada$0.94B63.5%
  2. 02Mexico$0.17B11.5%
  3. 03Denmark$0.10B6.9%
  4. 04Brazil$72.6M4.9%
  5. 05Spain$53.2M3.6%
  6. 06Poland$41.4M2.8%
  7. 07Netherlands$36.3M2.4%
  8. 08United Kingdom$28.5M1.9%
  9. 09Ireland$21.1M1.4%
  10. 10Chile$11.6M0.8%
  11. All othersEveryone else combined: $3.7M0.2%

Total US pork imports by year · $909M in 2010 to $1.5B 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 pork imports. Gray bar is 2015, colored bar is 2025.Share of US pork imports. Gray is 2015, color is 2025.

Mexico2.6% → 11%
Brazil<0.1% → 4.9%
Spain1.1% → 3.6%
Netherlands1.9% → 2.4%
Chile0.4% → 0.8%
United Kingdom2.6% → 1.9%
Ireland2.2% → 1.4%
Denmark9.6% → 6.9%
Poland5.6% → 2.8%
Canada74% → 64%
2015 share2025, gained2025, lost

Where it's raised

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

Canada alone sends 64%, and Mexico, Denmark, Brazil and Spain add another 27%. Europe is the next-largest source region at 19%.

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  1. 01Canada
  2. 02Mexico
  3. 03Denmark
  4. 04Brazil
  5. 05Spain
  6. 06Poland
  7. 07Netherlands
  8. 08United Kingdom

Where it enters

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

74% comes in by land or other routes, not by ship or air. Champlain-Rouses Point takes 18%. Buffalo-Niagara Falls and Pembina follow at 16% and 11%.

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

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  1. AChamplain-Rouses Point, NY $0.26B
  2. BBuffalo-Niagara Falls, NY $0.23B
  3. CPembina, ND $0.16B
  4. DDetroit, MI $0.14B
  5. ELaredo, TX $0.10B
  6. FSweetgrass, MT $86.0M
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 pork is used.

Three states are listed for over $100M each.

  1. 01California$0.23B
  2. 02New York$0.16B
  3. 03New Jersey$0.12B
  4. 04Ohio$98.2M
  5. 05Virginia$81.5M
$100M+$40–100M$10–40M$1–10MUnder $1M

Counted under HS 0203. How we count.