Importers Top 100 2024

Foodstuffs

1,575,741 TEUs 6.6 %

Ceramic and Glass Products

864,878 TEUs 3.6 %

Other

735,412 TEUs 3.1 %

Wood and Articles of Wood

554,362 TEUs 2.3 %

Footwear , Headgear , Umbrellas

520,333 TEUs 2.2 %

Raw Hides and Skins , Leather

481,106 TEUs 2.0 %

Vegetable Products

1,490,215 TEUs 6.2 %

Pulp of Wood , Paper and Paperboard

545,435 TEUs 2.3 %

Live Animal , Animal Products

371,861 TEUs 1.5 %

Total containerized imports to the United States fell 12.9 % year over year in 2023 , with a 22.2 % drop in first-half volumes slowing to a 2.6 % decline in the second half , according to PIERS , a sister product of the Journal of Commerce within S & P Global . The decrease in volumes broke a three-year streak of annual import growth , but the decline was neither universal nor uniform across the various commodity groups tracked by PIERS . Inbound volumes of automobiles and parts ( up 2.1 %), household goods ( up 2.5 %), and electronics ( up 3 %), for example , grew from 2022 levels , while shipments of alcoholic beverages ( down 3.6 %), toys and games ( down 0.8 %), and apparel and footwear ( 1.7 %) all registered declines . Miscellaneous manufactured articles , a category that includes a wide variety of goods ranging from pencils , pens and other art materials to brooms and brushes , was the largest import commodity group last year , accounting for 17.1 % of total US imports , followed by machinery and mechanical products ( 14.9 %), mineral products ( 11.3 %), textiles and textile products ( 8.2 %), and base metals ( 7.2 %)

Optical , Photographic , Medical Instruments

227,643 TEUs 0.9 %

Fak

168,620 TEUs 0.7 %

Tobacco Products

37,315 TEUs 0.2 %

Animal or Vegetable Fats and Oils

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