That dollar amount equals a 27.5% increase from the cost of America’s imported fruits which was $15.9 billion five years earlier during 2018.
Year over year, US imports of fruits gained 8.5% compared to $18.7 billion for 2021.
Avocados, bananas and fresh grapes are America’s three most popular imported fruits. Collectively they represented 41.6% of the total value for all fruits imported into the United States during 2022.
America’s Most Beloved Imported Fruits
The following list showcases the top 15 imported fresh or dried fruits most in demand by Americans. Combined, these 15 fruit categories represent 88.1% of the overall cost of fruits imported by the United States in 2022.
- Avocados: US$3.4 billion (16.7% of US-imported fruits)
- Bananas not plantains: $2.6 billion (13%)
- Fresh grapes: $2.4 billion (12%)
- Fresh cranberries, bilberries: $1.9 billion (9.5%)
- Fresh raspberries, blackberries, mulberries, loganberries: $1.9 billion (9.4%)
- Lemons, limes: $1.1 billion (5.4%)
- Pineapples: $1.1 billion (5.4%)
- Lemons, limes: $972.2 million (4.8%)
- Pineapples: $887.1 million (4.4%)
- Guavas, mangoes: $870.7 million (4.3%)
- Mandarins including tangerines: $579.7 million (2.9%)
- Watermelons: $454 million (2.2%)
- Frozen strawberries: $395.6 million (1.9%)
- Melons excluding watermelons: $372.7 million (1.8%)
- Fresh tamarinds: $306.3 million (1.5%)
Fastest growers among purchases for the top 15 product categories year over year were mandarins including tangerines (up 43.6% from 2021), fresh grapes (up 23%), fresh raspberries, blackberries, mulberries and loganberries (up 15%), fresh tamarinds (up 11.3%), then fresh cranberries and bilberries (up 10.5%).
There was one year-over-year decliner, namely frozen strawberries. That product category posted a -1.6% decline compared to US spending during 2021.
Top Suppliers by Country
By value, listed below in descending order are the top 10 countries that supplied 88.6% of total fruits imported by America in 2022.
- Mexico: US$8.8 billion (43.5% of US-imported fruits)
- Peru: $2.2 billion (10.7%)
- Chile: $2 billion (9.8%)
- Guatemala: $1.4 billion (6.7%)
- Costa Rica: $1.1 billion (5.2%)
- Vietnam: $795.8 million (3.9%)
- Canada: $510.4 million (2.5%)
- Ecuador: $492.7 million (2.4%)
- Honduras: $364.1 million (1.8%)
- Colombia: $326 million (1.6%)
The fastest-growing top suppliers of fruits imported by the United States over the five-year period starting in 2018 were Peru (up 112.5%), Colombia (up 59.5%), Canada (up 50%) and another North American trade partner, Mexico (up 43.2%).
Leading US imported fruits from Mexico include avocados and fresh strawberries. Popular American imports from Canada are fresh cranberries and bilberries, cherries, apples and strawberries.
Fresh grapes and cranberries are the most valuable fruits shipped to America from Chile and Peru. Bananas top the list of fruits imported from Guatemala, Ecuador, Honduras and Colombia.
American imports of guavas and mangos top the list of fruits imported from Vietnam. Cranberries, cherries and apples represent the most lucrative fruits imported into America for suppliers in Canada.
See also Bananas Exports by Country, Grapes Exports by Country, Avocados Exports by Country, Pineapples Exports by Country and Apples Exports by Country Plus Average Prices
Research Sources
Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Field Listing: Exports – Commodities. Accessed on July 19, 2023
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on July 19, 2023
Wikipedia, Fruit. Accessed on July 19, 2023
