Origins
Near normalCanada potato import volume
Border-crossing import volume for Canada, USDA Daily Movement reports (per hundredweight)
Data through Nov 2, 2026 · source last checked Nov 4, 2026 · page revised Nov 4, 2026
Cite
- Shipments
About this data
- Source
- USDA AMS Daily Movement report (FV170)
- Series
- Potato border-crossing import volume
- Basis
- Movement volume, per hundredweight
- Geography
- Canada
- Unit
- cwt
- Last observation
- Nov 2, 2026
- Update frequency
- USDA reports on business days
39,846 cwt, 8% above the 5-yr median.
Canada shipped 39,846 cwt across the border through November 2, up 6.0% on the week and 21.4% on the month. Imports run 8% above the 5-year median.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | 39,846 | 37,575 | +6.0% |
| Month over month | 39,846 | 32,835 | +21.4% |
| Year over year | 39,846 | 35,247 | +13.0% |
| vs 5-yr median | 39,846 | 37,035 | +7.6% |
Previous weeks
Week of Oct 30, 2026
Canada potato imports totaled 41,330 cwt for the week ending Oct. 30, down 4.6% from the prior week but up 97.7% year over year. Current volumes run 32% above the 5-year median.
An earlier week
Canada potato imports totaled 35,900 cwt as of Oct 29, down 56.2% week over week but up 57.5% month over month. Year-ago shipments ran 20.6% higher. Imports sit 14.3% above the 5-year median.
An earlier week
Canada imports hit 69,905 cwt, up 80.2% weekly and 82% above the 5-year median. Month-over-month shipments climbed 120.6%, while year-over-year flow is up 176.1%.
An earlier week
Canada potato imports totaled 36,897 cwt through October 27, up 25.2% from a year earlier. Month-over-month volume gained 16.4% and week-over-week rose 3.1%. Imports sit 4% below the 5-year median.
About Canada potato import volume
Canada is the one origin on this site that is not a US growing district: it tracks the volume of Canadian potatoes crossing into the United States, mainly out of Prince Edward Island, Ontario, New Brunswick and Quebec, with Manitoba and Alberta behind them (Statistics Canada export figures for 2023-24). Those provinces grow and store potatoes on much the same fall-harvest, cellar-through-the-year calendar as the northern US storage regions, and much of what crosses the border is repacked and sold through East Coast terminal markets rather than quoted at a US shipping point.
Because of that, this page tracks import volume in hundredweight, not an FOB price. Canadian potatoes compete with the US crop mainly on the eastern seaboard and in the Upper Midwest, so a jump in Canadian crossings is one of the more useful early reads on pressure building against Eastern storage-region prices, districts like Maine, New York and Michigan, before it necessarily shows up in their own quotes. USDA's Daily Movement reports, not its shipping point price reports, are the source for every number on this page. Does the US import potatoes? sets these crossings against the annual trade totals, port by port.
Common questions
How many potatoes does the US import from Canada?
USDA's Daily Movement reports logged 7.7 million cwt of Canadian potatoes crossing into the US in the 12 months to Nov 2, 2026, across 245 report days, 8% more than the 12 months before. The latest day, Nov 2, 2026, logged 39,846 cwt, 8% above the 5-yr median for the date. A hundredweight (cwt) is 100 lb. Does the US import potatoes? sets these crossings against the annual trade totals.
Where do Canadian potatoes cross into the US?
In the 12 months to Nov 2, 2026, the busiest crossings were Houlton, Maine (26%), Pembina, North Dakota (21%) and Lake Champlain, New York (16%). By state, ports in Maine handled 35%, New York 25% and North Dakota 23% of the volume. By mode, 96% came by truck and 4% by boat.
What kinds of potatoes come from Canada?
By USDA's type tags, the crossings in the 12 months to Nov 2, 2026 were 42% yellow, 31% red and 27% russet, and 4.2% of the volume was reported as organic. Russets are the smaller share, the reverse of the US crop, where they run about 70 percent of planted acres by USDA's Economic Research Service.
When do Canadian potato imports peak?
Across the full years 2022 through 2025, November through March carried 50% of the year's crossings, and the three busiest months were March (11%), January (10%) and November (10%). August was the quietest, at 4.8%.