USDA Market News import movement · latest full week Sep 21 – Sep 27, 2026
Last 4 weeks
18.2M lb
Aug 31 – Sep 27
vs last year
▲ 26.7%
same 4 weeks last year
Latest week
4.3M lb
week of Sep 21
Main origin
Mexico
95% of the last 4 weeks
In the four weeks to Sep 27, 2026, the U.S. imported 18.2 million lb of fresh cilantro, 27% more than the same weeks last year. Mexico supplied 95%. Over the past year, 99% arrived by truck, most often through Pharr, Texas.
FSMA 204Cilantro is on the FDA Food Traceability List
under Herbs (fresh). Fresh culinary herbs are listed. Dried herbs are not — the category covers herbs sold and consumed fresh. Every buyer, distributor, and receiver in the chain must record the traceability
lot code and its source at receipt — compliance is required by July 20, 2028. What buyers need to record →
Weekly Import Volume
Fresh imports by week, Monday to Sunday · latest week highlighted · hover a bar for its numbers
This yearSame week last year
Where It Comes From
Country
Last 4 weeks
Share
12-month share
Mexico
17.2M lb
95%
97%
Costa Rica
219K lb
1.2%
1.4%
Canada
762K lb
4.2%
1.2%
Dominican Republic
4.3K lb
<0.1%
<0.1%
Colombia
4.4K lb
<0.1%
<0.1%
Guatemala
5.1K lb
<0.1%
<0.1%
El Salvador
603 lb
<0.1%
<0.1%
Ports of Entry
Sep 29, 2025 – Sep 27, 2026
Port
Share
Volume
Pharr, Texas
45%
109.2M lb
Roma, Texas
37%
88.8M lb
Calexico, California
12%
28.9M lb
Otay Mesa, California
2.4%
5.8M lb
Lake Champlain, New York
1.1%
2.7M lb
San Luis, Arizona
0.8%
2.0M lb
Miami Airport, Florida
0.5%
1.2M lb
Los Angeles Airport, California
0.5%
1.2M lb
New York JFK Airport
0.4%
1.0M lb
Buffalo, New York
0.1%
266K lb
17 more ports handled smaller volumes.
How It Arrives
Truck 99%Air 1.5%Boat <0.1%
Organic
0%
share of volume
Greenhouse
<0.1%
share of volume
Sep 29, 2025 – Sep 27, 2026
How these numbers are measured
Source: USDA AMS Specialty Crops Market News, import movement report (WA_FV170), which records fresh fruit and
vegetable shipments entering the U.S. by commodity, country of origin, port of entry and mode, in pounds, every weekday.
Lines USDA lists more than once are added together, since nothing in the report marks them as duplicates. Dried, frozen
and for-processing lots are left out, and tree nuts are not counted as produce.
Weeks run Monday to Sunday and count once the Friday report is in. Comparisons with last year use the same weeks
52 weeks earlier, and are shown only when both periods carry at least 40,000 lb
(one truckload) with shipments in 3 of the 4 weeks. USDA widened this report from about 27 to more than 70 ports of entry in
December 2024, so nothing here reaches back before Dec 16, 2024.
A commodity with shipments in fewer than 8 of the last 12 weeks is marked sporadic: its weekly numbers
can swing on a single container, so read them as a record of arrivals rather than a trend.
