USDA Market News import movement · latest full week Sep 21 – Sep 27, 2026
Last 4 weeks
85.7M lb
Aug 31 – Sep 27
vs last year
▲ 6.8%
same 4 weeks last year
Latest week
26.5M lb
week of Sep 21
Main origin
Guatemala
49% of the last 4 weeks
In the four weeks to Sep 27, 2026, the U.S. imported 85.7 million lb of fresh plantains, 7% more than the same weeks last year. Guatemala supplied 49%. Over the past year, 95% 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
Guatemala
41.8M lb
49%
49%
Ecuador
23.9M lb
28%
30%
Colombia
9.2M lb
11%
11%
Mexico
4.7M lb
5.5%
4.5%
Costa Rica
3.5M lb
4.1%
2.7%
Honduras
1.8M lb
2.2%
2.3%
Panama
595K lb
0.7%
0.5%
Belize
100K lb
0.1%
0.2%
Nicaragua
72K lb
<0.1%
0.1%
Dominican Republic
61K lb
<0.1%
0.1%
Jamaica
40 lb
<0.1%
<0.1%
Ports of Entry
Sep 29, 2025 – Sep 27, 2026
Port
Share
Volume
Philadelphia-Camden, Pennsylvania-New Jersey
21%
236.8M lb
Wilmington, Delaware
17%
197.7M lb
Brooklyn, New York
14%
159.0M lb
South Florida/Tampa
14%
157.5M lb
Port Canaveral, Florida
11%
120.4M lb
Pharr, Texas
4.9%
55.3M lb
Freeport, Texas
4.3%
49.1M lb
Los Angeles-Long Beach, California
3.4%
38.7M lb
Gulfport, Mississippi
3.1%
34.6M lb
Port Hueneme, California
3.0%
34.3M lb
17 more ports handled smaller volumes.
How It Arrives
Boat 95%Truck 5.2%Air <0.1%
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.
