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Kola Imports

USDA Market News import movement · latest full week Sep 21 – Sep 27, 2026

Last 4 weeks
83K lb
Aug 31 – Sep 27
vs last year
▼ 25.4%
same 4 weeks last year
Latest week
8.2K lb
week of Sep 21
Main origin
Jamaica
53% of the last 4 weeks

In the four weeks to Sep 27, 2026, the U.S. imported 82,887 lb of fresh kola, 25% less than the same weeks last year. Jamaica supplied 53%. Over the past year, 63% arrived by boat, most often through Baltimore, Maryland.

Weekly Import Volume

Fresh imports by week, Monday to Sunday · latest week highlighted · hover a bar for its numbers

This year Same week last year
0100K200K300K400K Week of Sep 29, 2025: 9.8K lbWeek of Oct 6, 2025: 138K lbWeek of Oct 13, 2025: 9.9K lbWeek of Oct 20, 2025: 7.7K lbWeek of Oct 27, 2025: 6.1K lbWeek of Nov 3, 2025: 11K lbWeek of Nov 10, 2025: 166K lbWeek of Nov 17, 2025: 304K lbWeek of Nov 24, 2025: 112K lbWeek of Dec 1, 2025: 5.5K lbWeek of Dec 8, 2025: 57K lbWeek of Dec 15, 2025: 4.8K lb (last year 0 lb)Week of Dec 22, 2025: 327K lb (last year 0 lb)Week of Dec 29, 2025: 50K lb (last year 0 lb)Week of Jan 5, 2026: 8.2K lb (last year 0 lb)Week of Jan 12, 2026: 9.2K lb (last year 0 lb)Week of Jan 19, 2026: 46K lb (last year 0 lb)Week of Jan 26, 2026: 845 lb (last year 0 lb)Week of Feb 2, 2026: 2.5K lb (last year 0 lb)Week of Feb 9, 2026: 102K lb (last year 0 lb)Week of Feb 16, 2026: 8.6K lb (last year 0 lb)Week of Feb 23, 2026: 74K lb (last year 0 lb)Week of Mar 2, 2026: 7.7K lb (last year 0 lb)Week of Mar 9, 2026: 2.8K lb (last year 0 lb)Week of Mar 16, 2026: 35K lb (last year 0 lb)Week of Mar 23, 2026: 28K lb (last year 0 lb)Week of Mar 30, 2026: 9.1K lb (last year 0 lb)Week of Apr 6, 2026: 7.9K lb (last year 0 lb)Week of Apr 13, 2026: 8.0K lb (last year 0 lb)Week of Apr 20, 2026: 3.6K lb (last year 0 lb)Week of Apr 27, 2026: 3.4K lb (last year 253 lb)Week of May 4, 2026: 3.2K lb (last year 4.4K lb)Week of May 11, 2026: 5.6K lb (last year 9.9K lb)Week of May 18, 2026: 3.7K lb (last year 5.6K lb)Week of May 25, 2026: 50K lb (last year 7.4K lb)Week of Jun 1, 2026: 93K lb (last year 15K lb)Week of Jun 8, 2026: 7.6K lb (last year 27K lb)Week of Jun 15, 2026: 1.4K lb (last year 25K lb)Week of Jun 22, 2026: 5.0K lb (last year 7.1K lb)Week of Jun 29, 2026: 7.9K lb (last year 2.7K lb)Week of Jul 6, 2026: 2.1K lb (last year 21K lb)Week of Jul 13, 2026: 4.8K lb (last year 11K lb)Week of Jul 20, 2026: 11K lb (last year 7.9K lb)Week of Jul 27, 2026: 49K lb (last year 11K lb)Week of Aug 3, 2026: 5.0K lb (last year 6.9K lb)Week of Aug 10, 2026: 22K lb (last year 14K lb)Week of Aug 17, 2026: 7.2K lb (last year 18K lb)Week of Aug 24, 2026: 1.2K lb (last year 8.0K lb)Week of Aug 31, 2026: 8.5K lb (last year 93K lb)Week of Sep 7, 2026: 8.8K lb (last year 7.1K lb)Week of Sep 14, 2026: 57K lb (last year 6.7K lb)Week of Sep 21, 2026: 8.2K lb (last year 3.9K lb) Sep 2025 Mar 2026 Sep 2026

Where It Comes From

CountryLast 4 weeksShare12-month share
Cote d'Ivoire 7.3K lb 8.8% 50%
Jamaica 44K lb 53% 33%
Nigeria 21K lb 26% 11%
Guinea — — 1.4%
France — — 1.4%
Ghana 7.6K lb 9.2% 1.1%
Liberia — — 0.9%
Benin 2.1K lb 2.5% 0.7%
Cameroon 727 lb 0.9% 0.7%
Mexico — — <0.1%
Togo — — <0.1%
Senegal 11 lb <0.1% <0.1%

1 more countries shipped smaller volumes.

Ports of Entry

Sep 29, 2025 – Sep 27, 2026

PortShareVolume
Baltimore, Maryland 48% 931K lb
Newark-Elizabeth, New Jersey 35% 670K lb
Dulles Airport, Virginia 4.9% 94K lb
New York JFK Airport 3.8% 73K lb
Houston, Texas 3.3% 65K lb
Norfolk, Virginia 1.4% 27K lb
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas 0.7% 14K lb
Atlanta, Georgia 0.6% 12K lb
Chicago, Illinois 0.6% 12K lb
Los Angeles Airport, California 0.5% 11K lb

17 more ports handled smaller volumes.

How It Arrives

Boat 63%Truck 22%Air 15%
Organic
0%
share of volume
Greenhouse
0%
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.

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