Shipped Where
Imported, 2025Imported 2025
$410 million$410M
vs 2010
3.2× (nominal)
Arrived by shipBy ship
14%
Busiest portTop port
Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY

Most imported potato chips come from Canada: 63% of $410 million.

Mexico is second at 23%. Potato chips and other prepared potatoes, not frozen.

Where US potato chips come from, 2025Where it comes from

Share by value of the $410M the US imported, by country of originShare by value, by country of origin

  1. 01Canada$258M62.9%
  2. 02Mexico$95.8M23.4%
  3. 03Ireland$8.8M2.2%
  4. 04China$6.9M1.7%
  5. 05Spain$4.9M1.2%
  6. 06South Korea$4.2M1.0%
  7. 07Egypt$2.9M0.7%
  8. 08India$2.3M0.6%
  9. 09Israel$2.1M0.5%
  10. 10Taiwan$1.8M0.4%
  11. All othersEveryone else combined: $22.3M5.4%

Total US potato chips imports by year · $127M in 2010 to $410M 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 potato chips imports. Gray bar is 2015, colored bar is 2025.Share of US potato chips imports. Gray is 2015, color is 2025.

Canada40% → 63%
Ireland0.3% → 2.2%
South Korea0.2% → 1%
Egypt0% → 0.7%
China1.1% → 1.7%
India0.2% → 0.6%
Israel0.1% → 0.5%
Taiwan0.2% → 0.4%
Spain1.2% → 1.2%
Honduras5.3% → 0.3%
Mexico46% → 23%
2015 share2025, gained2025, lost

Where it's made

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

Canada alone sends 63%, and Mexico, Ireland, China and Spain add another 28%. Latin America is the next-largest source region at 25%.

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  1. 01Canada
  2. 02Mexico
  3. 03Ireland
  4. 04China
  5. 05Spain
  6. 06South Korea
  7. 07Egypt
  8. 08India

Where it enters

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

86% comes in by land or other routes, not by ship or air. Buffalo-Niagara Falls takes 18%. Sweetgrass and Calexico East follow at 14% and 12%.

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

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  1. ABuffalo-Niagara Falls, NY $72.5M
  2. BSweetgrass, MT $58.5M
  3. CCalexico East, CA $48.9M
  4. DPort Huron, MI $43.3M
  5. EEastport, ID $25.7M
  6. FNewark, NJ $21.2M
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 potato chips is used.

Ten states are listed for over $10M each.

  1. 01Texas$69.6M
  2. 02California$62.0M
  3. 03Illinois$50.4M
  4. 04New York$24.1M
  5. 05New Jersey$22.8M
$10M+$4–10M$1–4M$100K–1MUnder $100K

Counted under HS 200520. How we count.