• U.S.-Nigeria agricultural trade projected to exceed $700M in 2025
  
  
• U.S. wheat shipment of 50,000 tons offloaded at Lagos port
  
  
• Nigeria’s imports from U.S. outpace exports, driven by wheat and oilseeds
  

Agricultural trade between the United States and Nigeria is expected to exceed $700 million in 2025, more than double this year’s figure, the U.S. diplomatic mission in Nigeria said in a post on X on Dec. 9.

The statement followed a visit by U.S. Consul General Rick Swart and U.S. Agricultural Counselor Chris Bielecki to oversee the offloading of a 50,000-ton wheat shipment worth $15 million at Lagos’s Apapa port for Flour Mills of Nigeria.

Even as trade is set to grow, Nigeria continues to import far more agricultural and food products from the United States than it exports, and several factors suggest the pattern will persist into 2025.

In its August Agricultural Trade Outlook, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) forecast U.S. agricultural and food exports to Nigeria at around $500 million by the end of fiscal 2025, more than double the $219 million recorded in fiscal 2024. The estimate is provisional.

Beyond wheat, U.S. shipments to Nigeria include oilseeds and seafood products, according to UN COMTRADE data. U.S. imports from Nigeria consist mainly of cocoa and cocoa products, along with fruits, vegetables and root crops.

Stéphanas Assocle