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Onions, Green Imports

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

Last 4 weeks
26.1M lb
Aug 31 – Sep 27
vs last year
▼ 24.7%
same 4 weeks last year
Latest week
6.4M lb
week of Sep 21
Main origin
Mexico
92% of the last 4 weeks

In the four weeks to Sep 27, 2026, the U.S. imported 26.1 million lb of fresh onions, green, 25% less than the same weeks last year. Mexico supplied 92%. Over the past year, all of it arrived by truck, most often through Calexico, California.

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
05.0M10.0M15.0M20.0M Week of Sep 29, 2025: 8.2M lbWeek of Oct 6, 2025: 9.5M lbWeek of Oct 13, 2025: 7.5M lbWeek of Oct 20, 2025: 10.6M lbWeek of Oct 27, 2025: 9.9M lbWeek of Nov 3, 2025: 10.2M lbWeek of Nov 10, 2025: 8.1M lbWeek of Nov 17, 2025: 11.4M lbWeek of Nov 24, 2025: 8.3M lbWeek of Dec 1, 2025: 6.4M lbWeek of Dec 8, 2025: 10.0M lbWeek of Dec 15, 2025: 8.2M lb (last year 10.7M lb)Week of Dec 22, 2025: 6.1M lb (last year 9.0M lb)Week of Dec 29, 2025: 8.3M lb (last year 10.7M lb)Week of Jan 5, 2026: 10.7M lb (last year 11.1M lb)Week of Jan 12, 2026: 10.1M lb (last year 9.8M lb)Week of Jan 19, 2026: 8.1M lb (last year 10.9M lb)Week of Jan 26, 2026: 10.4M lb (last year 11.5M lb)Week of Feb 2, 2026: 9.3M lb (last year 8.5M lb)Week of Feb 9, 2026: 6.8M lb (last year 9.4M lb)Week of Feb 16, 2026: 6.4M lb (last year 8.6M lb)Week of Feb 23, 2026: 10.3M lb (last year 13.8M lb)Week of Mar 2, 2026: 10.7M lb (last year 9.0M lb)Week of Mar 9, 2026: 9.2M lb (last year 8.8M lb)Week of Mar 16, 2026: 8.0M lb (last year 10.5M lb)Week of Mar 23, 2026: 8.6M lb (last year 15.3M lb)Week of Mar 30, 2026: 9.6M lb (last year 10.9M lb)Week of Apr 6, 2026: 10.7M lb (last year 9.9M lb)Week of Apr 13, 2026: 7.9M lb (last year 9.2M lb)Week of Apr 20, 2026: 10.5M lb (last year 11.0M lb)Week of Apr 27, 2026: 9.8M lb (last year 10.6M lb)Week of May 4, 2026: 10.3M lb (last year 12.4M lb)Week of May 11, 2026: 9.2M lb (last year 10.9M lb)Week of May 18, 2026: 8.9M lb (last year 11.6M lb)Week of May 25, 2026: 10.4M lb (last year 9.2M lb)Week of Jun 1, 2026: 11.1M lb (last year 12.3M lb)Week of Jun 8, 2026: 9.1M lb (last year 9.6M lb)Week of Jun 15, 2026: 7.6M lb (last year 6.4M lb)Week of Jun 22, 2026: 8.8M lb (last year 11.0M lb)Week of Jun 29, 2026: 7.9M lb (last year 9.2M lb)Week of Jul 6, 2026: 8.8M lb (last year 10.4M lb)Week of Jul 13, 2026: 9.3M lb (last year 11.1M lb)Week of Jul 20, 2026: 7.5M lb (last year 7.9M lb)Week of Jul 27, 2026: 7.0M lb (last year 10.5M lb)Week of Aug 3, 2026: 6.3M lb (last year 7.5M lb)Week of Aug 10, 2026: 7.2M lb (last year 8.3M lb)Week of Aug 17, 2026: 6.7M lb (last year 8.4M lb)Week of Aug 24, 2026: 7.0M lb (last year 8.6M lb)Week of Aug 31, 2026: 7.3M lb (last year 7.2M lb)Week of Sep 7, 2026: 5.3M lb (last year 9.0M lb)Week of Sep 14, 2026: 7.1M lb (last year 9.3M lb)Week of Sep 21, 2026: 6.4M lb (last year 9.2M lb) Sep 2025 Mar 2026 Sep 2026

Where It Comes From

CountryLast 4 weeksShare12-month share
Mexico 23.9M lb 92% 95%
Canada 2.1M lb 7.9% 5.1%
Colombia 70K lb 0.3% 0.1%
Ecuador 10K lb <0.1% <0.1%
Netherlands — — <0.1%
Peru — — <0.1%
Guatemala 541 lb <0.1% <0.1%
Honduras — — <0.1%
Nicaragua — — <0.1%
Brazil — — <0.1%
Dominican Republic — — <0.1%

Ports of Entry

Sep 29, 2025 – Sep 27, 2026

PortShareVolume
Calexico, California 72% 324.3M lb
Pharr, Texas 6.7% 30.0M lb
San Luis, Arizona 6.5% 29.1M lb
Roma, Texas 5.8% 26.2M lb
Lake Champlain, New York 4.1% 18.5M lb
Otay Mesa, California 3.3% 14.7M lb
Detroit, Michigan 0.4% 1.7M lb
Buffalo, New York 0.3% 1.3M lb
Port Huron, Michigan 0.2% 851K lb
Progreso, Texas 0.1% 673K lb

16 more ports handled smaller volumes.

How It Arrives

Truck 100%Air 0.1%Boat <0.1%
Organic
0.6%
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.

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