The American Journal of Transportation detailed the Top 50 importers of products into the United States from our data for their February 23rd edition. George Lauriat used TradeIQ to develop estimates for the total imports for each importer in 2008. As you can imagine, this was a pretty big project to undertake, but he was able to put together a comprehensive list that showed most importers slightly increased their shipment volume.

Below are the Top 5 Importers from Mr. Lauriat's analysis:

To see the full list of U.S. Importers and read the article "Light at the end of the tunnel: How far off is economic recovery for the American shipper?", visit our News and Events page.