USDA Market News import movement · latest full week Sep 21 – Sep 27, 2026
Last 4 weeks
70.2M lb
Aug 31 – Sep 27
vs last year
▲ 22.5%
same 4 weeks last year
Latest week
13.3M lb
week of Sep 21
Main origin
Argentina
49% of the last 4 weeks
In the four weeks to Sep 27, 2026, the U.S. imported 70.2 million lb of fresh lemons, 23% more than the same weeks last year. Argentina supplied 49%. Over the past year, 77% arrived by boat, most often through Philadelphia-Camden, Pennsylvania-New Jersey.
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
Argentina
34.3M lb
49%
38%
Chile
18.0M lb
26%
38%
Mexico
17.5M lb
25%
23%
Uruguay
334K lb
0.5%
0.8%
New Zealand
—
—
0.3%
South Africa
—
—
0.2%
Dominican Republic
23K lb
<0.1%
<0.1%
Colombia
56K lb
<0.1%
<0.1%
Italy
—
—
<0.1%
Guatemala
172 lb
<0.1%
<0.1%
Australia
—
—
<0.1%
Ecuador
—
—
<0.1%
3 more countries shipped smaller volumes.
Ports of Entry
Sep 29, 2025 – Sep 27, 2026
Port
Share
Volume
Philadelphia-Camden, Pennsylvania-New Jersey
56%
224.3M lb
Pharr, Texas
19%
75.6M lb
Los Angeles-Long Beach, California
12%
47.9M lb
Port Canaveral, Florida
6.0%
23.8M lb
Nogales, Arizona
4.0%
16.1M lb
South Florida/Tampa
1.5%
5.8M lb
Houston, Texas
0.5%
2.0M lb
Newark-Elizabeth, New Jersey
0.3%
1.3M lb
Savannah, Georgia
0.2%
677K lb
Port Hueneme, California
<0.1%
246K lb
10 more ports handled smaller volumes.
How It Arrives
Boat 77%Truck 23%Air <0.1%
Organic
9.1%
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.
