US Imports
The value of goods and services the US buys from the rest of the world each month.
$426.56bn
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Jan 1992 to Sep 2026
Source: FRED series BOPTIMP · goods and services, seasonally adjusted (BEA/Census).
US Imports in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In the US, the imports rose by $74.8bn over the year to Sep 2026, from $351.74bn in Sep 2025.
That is the highest reading in a record that starts in Jan 1992.
Over the past five years it has ranged from $288.52bn in Sep 2021 to $426.56bn in Sep 2026.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- BEA via FRED
- Series
- BOPTIMP
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- $m
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Sep 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-11-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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