Organic food import values have increased to $5.7 billion since 2011

The value of U.S. organic food imports rose to $5.7 billion in 2024, marking an increase for more than a decade. One contributing factor is the rise in high-value product imports, such as fresh cultivated blueberries. Another reason for the increase is the introduction of trade tracking codes for organic products. Many such codes were added in 2013, 2022, 2023, and 2024 under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule, distinguishing products as organic that were previously only recorded under a more general import category. For example, organic cucumber imports that would only have been recorded under total cucumber imports before the more precise trade tracking codes for cucumbers were implemented between 2022 and 2024 are now tracked as organic.

Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service

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Organic & Non-GMO Insights April 2025