{"id":23993,"date":"2025-12-15T13:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=23993"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:29:31","slug":"nigeria-united-states-agricultural-trade-attains-700-million-wheat-leading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/12\/15\/nigeria-united-states-agricultural-trade-attains-700-million-wheat-leading\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria-United States agricultural trade attains $700 million, wheat leading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nigeria-United States agricultural trade looks onto more than doubling annually to $700 million in 2025 amid burgeoning wheat trade. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A post on X by the \u00a0U.S.\u2019 diplomatic mission to Abuja on December 9, 2025 revealed this projection, per confirming\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecofinagency.com\/news-agriculture\/1212-51322-u-s-nigeria-agricultural-trade-seen-topping-700m-in-2025\"><u>reports<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The figure mainly reflects farm imports from the United States worth $500 million, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)&#8217;s August 2025 forecast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This projection more than doubles the U.S.\u2019 agricultural export receipts from Nigeria in 2024 at $219 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gaining value is interesting in a tense tariff &nbsp;environment. Nigeria has traditionally levied an average&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/acioe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/US-Tariff-Policy-Brief.pdf\"><u>12.5%<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;on most U.S.\u2019 imports versus a 1% median by the U.S. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Trump sought to balance the above duty discrepancy when he announced 15% universal tariffs on Nigeria\u2019s goods starting April 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-wheat-trade-soldiers-on\"><strong>Wheat Trade Soldiers On &nbsp;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Wheat, America\u2019s third biggest overall export to Nigeria after machinery and vehicles, seems like withstanding tariffs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On December 9, the U.S. diplomatic mission oversaw the arrival of 50,000 tonnes of stateside wheat in Lagos.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The $15-million purchase was by Flour Mills of Nigeria, which processes human food at home after importing the raw grain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consulate officials see this huge order as offering mutual benefits to farmers back home and food processing workers at the destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s mill workers process the imported wheat into&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/insights\/prices\/nigeria\/wheat-flour\/\"><u>affordable flour<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;for home baking or making commercial pasta, bread and semolina.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other Ag imports from stateside include soybeans and seafood while Nigeria reciprocates with cocoa, cashew nuts and animal feed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result of import dependancy for especially grains, Nigeria enjoys a bilateral agricultural trade deficit with the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In overall trade, Nigeria leads the United States with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/acioe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/US-Tariff-Policy-Brief.pdf\"><u>$5.7 billion\u00a0<\/u><\/a>in annual exports (2024) versus $4.2 billion in imports. \u00a0The data section below follows up the issue in an agricultural trade context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-nigeria-united-states-agricultural-trade-statistics\"><strong>Nigeria-United States Agricultural Trade&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Statistics&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigeria and the U.S. partake of trade exceeding&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/acioe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/US-Tariff-Policy-Brief.pdf\"><u>$9.9 billion<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;annually, as of 2024, a small share of which from agriculture. In 2025, for example, the U.S. diplomatic mission in Nigeria forecast agricultural trade between the two nations at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/news\/nigerian-american-wheat-trade-to-hit-700-million-by-2025-fall\/\"><u>$700 million<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;annually. The United States Embassy and Consulate in Nigeria has additionally supported<a href=\"https:\/\/ng.usembassy.gov\/u-s-nigeria-agricultural-partnership-building-food-security-through-collaboration\/\"><u>&nbsp;5 million farmers<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;between 2019 and 2025 through development projects.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/acioe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/US-Tariff-Policy-Brief.pdf\"><u>ACIOE Associates<\/u><\/a>, agricultural imports by Nigeria from the U.S. are the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;highest after machinery and vehicles. In 2024, these Ag imports alone represented about 15% of overall multi-sector bilateral trade.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Which Ag products does the U.S. export to Nigeria?<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wheat is the leading produce that America exports to Nigeria. Nigeria ranks&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/news\/nigerian-american-wheat-trade-to-hit-700-million-by-2025-fall\/\"><u>3rd<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;among the biggest federal export destinations of the grain. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), federal wheat exports to Nigeria totaled $149.87 million in 2024. The nearest agricultural imports were as follows, based on data by the USDA\u2019s Foreign Agricultural Service (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fas.usda.gov\/regions\/nigeria\"><u>FAS<\/u><\/a>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Ag Product<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>U.S.&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Export Value&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>to Nigeria [2024]<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Wheat<\/td><td>$149.9&nbsp;million<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Non-beverage ethanol<\/td><td>$46.59&nbsp;million<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Food Preparations<\/td><td>$39.6&nbsp;million<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Soybeans<\/td><td>$28.74&nbsp;million<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Wines and related<\/td><td>$8.12&nbsp;million<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fig:\u00a0<em>top agricultural exports by the U.S. to Nigeria, 2024<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria-United States agricultural trade looks onto more than doubling annually to $700 million in 2025 amid burgeoning wheat trade. &nbsp;&nbsp; A post on X by the \u00a0U.S.\u2019 diplomatic mission to Abuja on December 9, 2025 revealed this projection, per confirming\u00a0reports. 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