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JOC TOP 100 EXPORTERS in 2014: U.S. FOREIGN TRADE VIA OCEAN CONTAINER TRANSPORT
2014
RANK

JOC TOP 100 EXPORTERS

TEUS
IN 2014

HEADQUARTERS

SECTOR

NOTES

Paper & Plastics

Recyclables; Animal
Feed/Grains

Recovered wastepaper exporter, the primary supplier to Nine Dragons

Paper Industries, which is Chinas largest containerboard manufacturer.
Also exports plastic scrap, animal feeds/grains and wines to China and
other Asian countries.

Conglomerate

Private U.S. company. Major units include Georgia-Pacific, GP Harmon

Recycling, and Invista. Acquired Buckeye Technologies in 2013.

Paper/Packaging

Global paper and packaging company with operations in North America,

Europe, Latin America, Russia, Asia and North Africa. 2014 net sales of
$24 billion. Owns Temple-Inland. Its xpedx BtoB distribution business
merged with Unisource in 2014 forming Veritiv.

AMERICA CHUNG NAM

335,400

City of Industry,
Calif.

KOCH INDUSTRIES

239,800

Wichita, Kan.

INTERNATIONAL PAPER

157,300

Memphis

DELONG

111,900

Clinton, Wis.

Animal Feed/Grain

Family owned trading company in agronomy, grain and seed business.

An 8.8-acre grain export facility at the Logistics Park in Kansas City.
Transport unit is DeLco Transport International.

DENISON INTERNATIONAL

104,400

Diamond Bar,
Calif.

Paper/Recyclables

Exports paper for recycling mainly to mainland China via California ports
and the Port of New York and New Jersey.

DUPONT

102,500

Wilmington, Del.

MEADWESTVACO/ROCKTENN

93,800

Richmond, Va.;
Norcross, Ga.

SIMS METAL MANAGEMENT

84,400

New York

NEWPORT CH INTL.

80,500

Orange, Calif.

10

POTENTIAL INDUSTRIES

78,200

Wilmington, Calif.

11

WEYERHAEUSER

72,400

Federal Way,
Wash.

Forest/Wood Products

Moving HQ to Seattle in 2016. Timberlands, wood and cellulose fiber

products company had $7.4 billion in 2014 sales. The REIT owns 7
million acres of timberlands primarily in the U.S. The hardwood
operations and Westwood Shipping Lines were sold in 2011.

TIE

12

JC HORIZON

70,900

Ontario, Calif.

Paper/Metals/Plastics
Recyclables

Serves the Asia-Pacific recycled paper, metal and plastics markets,

primarily China, where it has several offices.

TIE

12

SHINTECH

70,900

Houston

Diversified

Paper/Packaging

DuPont is separating its chemicals business into a new company,

Chemours, effective July 1, 2015.
MWV and RockTenn will combine as WestRock, WRK on NYSE. Holding
U.S. antitrust approval, deal will likely close in June. WestRock will
operate more than 300 facilities in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Metals &
Electronics/Recyclables

Metals and electronics recycler withmore than 250 facilities worldwide.

Approximately 60 percent of its global revenue is from North America
operations.

Paper/Metals /Plastics
Recyclables

A partnership with Canusa Hershman Recycling. Trades, brokers and

markets recyclable paper, plastics and metals to Asia, mostly to China.

Paper/Recyclables

Exports paper for recycling, primarily from California and New York-New
Jersey to mainland China. Rail access at recycling facility.

Chemicals

Largest U.S. producer of polyvinyl chloride, synthetic resin. Parent is

Shin-Etsu Chemical of Japan.

Chemicals

Trades whole grains and oil seeds, feed ingredients, and energy
products. In 2014 completed its high-speed shuttle train facility on the
Union Pacific Railroad near Grayridge, Missiouri, capable of loading 110car shuttle trains. Titan-Lansing Transloading handles frac sand and
crude oil in the Texas Permian Basin.

14

LANSING TRADE GROUP

65,400

Overland Park,
Kansas

15

INTERNATIONAL FOREST
PRODUCTS

63,700

Foxboro, Mass.

Paper/Recyclables

16

CARGILL

63,500

Wayzata, Minn.

Conglomerate

17

BASF NORTH AMERICA

63,200

Florham Park, N.J.

18

CYCLE LINK

62,900

Diamond Bar,
Calif.

Recyclables

19

JBS-SWIFT USA

61,900

Greeley, Colo.

Refrigerated
Meats/Poultry

Chemicals-Diversified

Part of the privately owned and family operated Kraft Group, which also
includes the Rand-Whitney paper and packaging business, Gillette
Stadium, the New England Patriots and the New England Revolution
soccer team.
Private U.S. company. New $100 million cocoa processing plant in
Gresik, Indonesia, began operations in December 2014. Owns zerocalorie sweetener Truvia, a Stevia leaf extract.
North American affiliate of BASF SE, headquartered in Ludwigshafen,
Germany, with global sales of $20.6 billion in 2014. Major facilities in the
U.S. are in Geismar, Louisiana, and Freeport, Texas.
Primarily handles recovered paper since 2007. Sourcing services for
recovered fibers, plastics and metals. Offices in Japan, U.K, the
Netherlands, mainland China and Australia.
Brazil's JBS Group, an animal protein processing company for food,
leather, pet products and biodiesel products operates more than 100
plants worldwide, including the U.S., Australia, Canada, Puerto Rico and

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Mexico among others. Owns and controls 75 percent of Pilgrim's Pride,

which bought Tyson Foods' Brazilian and Mexican poultry business.

20

ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND

59,100

Chicago, Ill.

21

WM RECYCLE AMERICA

57,200

Houston

22

DOW CHEMICAL

56,600

Midland, Mich.

23

CELLMARK GROUP

54,500

Norwalk, Conn.;
San Rafael, Calif.

Agriculture

Diversified/Recycler

Diversified

Paper/Paper
Products/Recyclables

Agricultural processor for food ingredients has 300 ingredient

manufacturing facilities and 460 crop procurement facilities. To sell its
global cocoa business to Olam and its chocolate business to Cargill.
Owns or leases 2,600 barges, 28,100 railcars, 600 trucks, 1,300 trailers
and 41 ships.
A national network of paper, plastics, glass, metals and electronics
recycling. Subsidiary of Waste Management offers collection, transfer,
recycling, resource recovery, and disposal services. U.S. developer,
operator and owner of waste-to-energy and landfill gas-to-energy
facilities.
Diversified portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced materials,
agrosciences and plastics businesses with $58 billion in 2014 sales.
Owns Rohm & Haas, Union Carbide. Received $2.16 billion from K-Dow
arbitration. To divest Angus Chemical. To fully own Univation
Technologies later this year. New Texas ethylene production plant to start
up in 2017.
The paper, packaging and recycling divisions are based in the U.S. Only
the pulp business is based in Sweden at parent Cellmark. Sources 70
countries with sales in 120 countries. Opened a metals and a chemical
division.
ExxonMobil subsidiary. The largest U.S. integrated refining-chemical
complex at Baytown, Texas, started construction for a new new
multibillion-dollar world-scale ethane cracker in June 2014. Broke ground
on butyl rubber and hydrocarbon resin plants in Singapore in October
2014.

24

EXXONMOBIL CHEMICAL

53,100

Houston

25

TRANS COASTAL SUPPLY

52,000

Decatur, Ill.

26

SCOULAR

51,100

Omaha

27

LOUIS DREYFUS
COMMODITIES; ALLENBERG
COTTON

50,200

Cordova, Tenn.

Cotton/Diversified

28

TYSON FOODS

50,100

Springdale, Ark.

Refrigerated
Meats/Poultry

29

GAVILON

48,300

Omaha, NE.

30

CATERPILLAR

46,100

Peoria, Ill.

31

CEDARWOOD-YOUNG
(ALLAN CO.)

45,300

Baldwin Park,
Calif.

Paper/Recyclables

Processes more than a million tons a year of paper, glass, plastics,

aluminum, non-ferrous metals and other recyclables in 12 California
plants. Markets recovered fibers to 20 countries.

32

AJC INTL.

37,400

Atlanta

Food/Refrigerated

Private meat, poultry, fruit, vegetable and seafood distributor. Specialty is

refrigerated foods under its own brands. Owns AJC Logistics, operates
warehouses, offers breakbulk chartered refrigerated vessel services.

Animal Feed/Grain

Previously branded as ACX Pacific Northwest. Owns and operates hay

processing plants in Ellensburg, Washington; Stockton and Wilmington,
California. A member of the Al Dahra Agricultural group of companies of
the United Arab Emirates. Al Dahra USA is headquartered at Bakersfield,
California.

33

AL DAHRA ACX GLOBAL

37,300

Bakersfield Calif.

34

DOMTAR

36,000

Fort Mill, S.C.;

Montreal

35

ARMY & AIR FORCE

EXCHANGE SERVICE

34,000

Dallas

Chemicals

Animal Feed/Grain

Agriculture/Foodstuffs

Animal Feed/Grain

Mfg-Machinery

Paper /Forest Products

Retail

Established in 2007. Markets grains and feed ingredients to primarily

Asian destinations. Provides transloading.
Privately held, employee-owned food, feed and renewable fuel
agricultural products marketing company. NVOCC and forwarder TSC
Container Freight is a separate division.
A global merchandizer of commodities and processor of agricultural
goods. The cotton merchandising division of Paris-based Louis Dreyfus
Group acquired the U.S. cotton business of Allenburg Cotton and
Dunavant Enterprises.
Processes and markets beef, poultry and pork and produces prepared
food products. In-country poultry operations in India and China. Sold
Mexico and Brazil operations to Pilgrim's Pride, JBS. Completed
acquisition of Hillshire Brands in August 2014.
Agriculture, fertilizer and energy commodity management. A past unit of
Conagra, thereafter privatized with aquisition by Marubeni in 2013. Has
300 facilities worldwide.
Manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural
gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. Total
2014 sales and revenue were $55.2 billion.

North American manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Montreal

had revenue of $5.6 billion in 2014. 83 percent of its business is in
paper/pulp and 17 percent in personal care sector through its acquisition
of Attends Healthcare.
Part of the Department of Defense, the military retailer operates more
than 2,448 facilities in the U.S. and worldwide. 98 percent funded through
its sales with only 2 percent appropriated for mostly overseas operations.
It sells at low price via on-base locations as well as an online and mobile
exchange at www.shopmyexchange.com to authorized customers.

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WAL-MART STORES

33,900

Bentonville, Ark.

TIE

37

ADVANCED STEEL
RECOVERY

33,600

Fontana, Calif.

TIE

37

PROCTER & GAMBLE

33,600

Cincinnati

39

EASTMAN CHEMICAL

32,600

Kingsport, Tenn.

40

ANDERSON HAY & GRAIN

31,600

Ellensburg, Wash

41

MILITARY SURFACE
DEPLOYMENT &
DISTRIBUTION COMMAND

31,400

Scott Air Force

Base, Ill.

42

RAYONIER

31,000

Jacksonville, Fla.

43

PRICE SMART

30,800

San Diego

TIE

44

RIO TINTO MINERALS

28,100

Greenwood
Village, Colo.

TIE

44

GILDAN ACTIVEWEAR

28,100

Montreal

46

3M

28,000

St. Paul, Minn.

47

FORD MOTOR

26,900

Dearborn, Mich.

48

TOYOTA TSUSHO AMERICA

26,500

Georgetown, Ky.

49

ASCEND PERFORMANCE
MATERIALS

26,400

Houston

TIE

TIE

49

SMITHFIELD FOODS

26,400

Smithfield, Va.

51

JOHN DEERE

25,700

Moline, Ill.

52

KIMBERLY-CLARK

25,600

Dallas

53

GENESIS RESOURCE

25,500

Springfield, N.J.

Retail

Held a U.S. Manufacturing Summit in August 2013 with 500 suppliers.

Committed to spend an additional $50 billion for more U.S. products over
10 years.

Metals/Recyclables

Privately owned firm automates the containerization of industrial scrap

steel and non-ferrous metals through their patented FASTek machinery
invention. Full-service pick-up, processing and direct mill delivery. Offers
client online inventory, removal and payment tracking.

Mfg-Consumer Products

Now 177 years in business with sales in 180 countries. Brands include
Iams, Febreze, Cover Girl, Gillette, Olay, Old Spice, Mr. Clean, Duracell,
Charmin, Bounty, Prilosec, among others.

Chemicals/Fibers/Plastics

Animal Feed

Military Goods

Total 2014 revenue was $9.5 billion. Taminco, Commonwealth

Laminating & Coating, and aviation turbine oil businesses were acquired
in 2014. Completed capacity expansion of its Eastman 168 nonphthalate plasticizers at its manufacturing facility in Texas City, Texas, by
approximately 15 percent in September 2014.
Works with a network of family owned farms. Exports to Asia hay and
straw products from Washington and Oregon and their Wilmington,
California, processing plant. Their three harvesting companies are
Anderson Agri, MTA Farms, and Anderson Harvesting.
Army command partners with commercial industry to deliver origin-todestination global solutions for Department of Defense equipment and
supplies for all military services.

Forest Timberlands

Structured as a timber real estate investment trust with 2.7 million acres
of timberland holdings. In 2014, spun-off its Performance Fibers business
into a new publicly traded company, Rayonier Advanced Materials.

Membership Warehouse
Club

Price Club founders have more than 36 owned and operated warehouse
clubs in Central America, the Caribbean and South America. Three clubs
in Colombia and a club in Honduras opened in 2014. A club in Panama to
open later this year.

Minerals

The U.S. mineral group of Rio Tinto produces U.S. Borax borates. Also in
the U.S. are the Kennecott copper mines in Utah and the Resolution
coppper project in Arizona. The Luzenac talc business was sold to Imerys
in August 2011.

Apparel Mfg.

Diversified

Manufacturer and marketer of knit apparel for logo, screen-print markets

and work uniforms. Sock and underwear supplier operates vertically
integrated, manufacturing facilities that are primarily located in Central
America and the Caribbean Basin.
$31.8 billion in 2014 sales with 88 U.S. plants and 127 overseas facilities.
63 percent of 2014 sales was international. Announced plans to acquire
Polypores Separations Media business for $1 billion.

Mfg-Automobiles

Has 66 plants worldwide. Ford opened its sixth assembly plant in China
in Hangzhou in March 2015, increasing capacity by 250,000 vehicles.

Conglomerate

Operates trading and supply chain management within Toyota Group.

Global headquarters in Japan. Has metals, machinery/electronics,
chemicals/plastics, automotive, agriculture/food and consumer products
divisions.

Chemicals/Fibers/Plastics

Monsanto spun-off its chemical business to form Solutia, which is now

owned by Eastman Chemical. SK Capital Partners bought the former
integrated nylon unit of Solutia in 2009 to form Ascend Performance
Materials.

Food/Refrigerated

Hog producer and pork processor firm with consumer packaged meats
specialty. Sold its Smithfield Beef unit to JBS Group in 2008. Its Butterball
turkey business was sold in 2010 to Maxwell Farms. Some of the brands
are Farmland Foods, Armour-Eckrich, John Morrell. Shuanghui
International of China, now known as WH Group Ltd., acquired Smithfield
Foods in 2013.

Mfg-Equipment

An expanded parts distribution facility in Campinas, Brazil, will open later

this year. Overseas, Deere has six factories in China, five in Brazil, four in
India, four in Mexico, two in Russia, among others. In the U.S., there are
factories in 11 states.

Mfg-Consumer Goods

Paper/Recyclables

Health and hygiene company operates in 36 countries with its brands

sold in more than 175 countries. Brands include Kleenex, Scott, Huggies
and others. Halyard Health spun-off in October 2014.
Affiliated with Pacific Genesis Resources and Sihu Singapore. Exports

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ENTERPRISES

paper for recycling to Asia, primarily to mainland China via the Port of
New York and New Jersey.

Automobiles

Daimler of Germany unit. Responsible for U.S. distribution and marketing

of Mercedes-Benz, Maybach, smart, and Sprinter products. Trucks in
Portland is a separate business unit.

Cincinnati

Metal/Recyclables

A Nucor company. Scrap metals trader/recycler with 70 scrap U.S.

processing facilities, including 16 automobile shredders and several selfservice used auto part stores. Private railcar fleet.

23,400

Gothenburg,
Miami, Hong Kong

Paper/Recyclables

Ekman Group of Sweden acquired materials recovery firm KC

International and formed Ekman Recycling more than a decade ago.
Paper and plastics specialist services include financing, equipment and
brokerage.

23,100

Throughout U.S.

54

MERCEDES BENZ USA

24,500

Montvale, N.J.

55

DAVID J. JOSEPH

24,400

56

EKMAN GROUP

57

BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY
COMPANIES

Diversified

Among Warren Buffet's companies that export are Fruit of the

Loom/Union Underwear, Lubrizol, Benjamin Moore, Shaw Industries,
Johns Manville, and others. Also owns BNSF and XTRA Corp.

58

MICHELIN NORTH AMERICA

23,000

Greenville, S.C.

Mfg-Tire & Rubber

Michelin North America operates 68 plants in 17 countries. The 10-year

$1.7 billion U.S. military contract for all ground and aircraft tires ends in
2017. In e-commerce strategy, bought BlackCircles.com, leading tire etailer in the U.K. and a 40 percent stake in French tire e-tailer Allopneu
SAS.

59

RAVAGO GROUP

22,500

Orlando, Fla.

Plastics, Rubber &

Chemicals

Ravago Group members in the Americas include Muehlstein, Channel

Prime Alliance, Entec, GeoChem and Ravago Manufacturing. Global
headquarters is in Belgium.

60

MEGA FIBER

22,000

Brea, Calif.

Paper/Recyclables

Exports paper for recycling to mainland China via California ports.

61

NESTLE

21,800

Glendale, Calif.;
St. Louis;
Greenwich, Conn.

Food/Beverages/Pet
Food

Swiss parent is the world's largest food company. Brands include

Nespresso, Purina, Nestle Waters, Stouffers, Lean Cuisine, others. In
2014, organic growth was broad-based, 5.4 percent in the Americas, 1.9
percent in Europe and 5.7 percent in Asia, Oceania and Africa.

62

OGO FIBERS

21,600

Richmond Hill,
Ontario;
Summerville, S.C.

Paper/Recyclables

A member of the OGO Group. Sourcing in North America and Europe for
the Asian market.

63

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
COS. INTL.

20,800

City of Industry,
Calif.

Paper/Recyclables

Exports paper for recycling to Asia, primarily to mainland China.

64

ITOCHU INTL.

19,100

New York

65

JORDAN TRADING

18,900

Kingston, N.Y.

Paper/Recyclables

Exports recovered paper primarily to Asia with some to Central and South
America.

66

DOLE FOOD

18,700

West Lake Village,

Calif.

Fruit & Vegetables

One of the largest global producers and marketers of high-quality fresh

fruit and fresh vegetables.

67

OLAM INTERNATIONAL

18,400

Fresno, Calif.

Cotton/Spices &
Vegetables

68

GRAPHIC PACKAGING
HOLDING

18,300

Marietta, Ga.

Paper Products

Exports packaging for the beverage and consumer product industries.

Has 26 converting plants in North America. Makes folding cartons,
coated-unbleached kraft, coated-recycled boxboard and specialty
packaging. Serves Europe, Latin America, Australia and Asia markets.

TIE

69

SABIC INNOVATIVE
PLASTICS

18,000

Pittsfield, Mass.

Chemicals/Plastics

Rebranded upon the $11.6 billion Sabic (Saudi Basic Industries Corp.)
acquisition of former GE Plastics in 2007. Offers engineering
thermoplastics materials solutions in resins, films and polymer shapes.
Has operations in 35 countries.

TIE

69

G.A. PAPER INTL.

18,000

Tampa, Fla.;
Markham, Canada

Paper/Recyclables

Head office in Markham, Ontario. Exports paper, Europe pulp and

containerboard primarily to the Middle East, North Africa and the
Mediterranean.

71

CONAGRA FOODS

17,900

Omaha

72

PEREZ TRADING

17,800

Miami

TIE

Diversified

North American unit of parent trading company Itochu Japan. Bought

Dole's packaged foods and Asia fresh businesses in April 2013. Parent
company investing $5 billion in China's largest conglomerate, Citic.

With global headquarters in Singapore, the processor of agricultural

products and food ingredients serves 65 countries. Global commodities
include cotton, wood, cocoa, coffee, cashew, sesame and rice products.

Food-Diversified

Packaged food company acquired Blakes All Natural Foods in May 2015.
Owns Ralcorp, Hebrew National, Lamb Weston, Wesson, Hunt's, Marie
Callendar's, among others.

Paper/Packaging

Markets paper, packaging and equipment for the graphics arts industry in
the U.S. Southeast, Mexico, Caribbean, South America and Central
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TIE

72

KAPSTONE PAPER AND

PACKAGING

17,800

Northbrook, Ill.

Paper/Paper Products

Acquired U.S. Corregated and its 14 plants and recycled paper mill to
form KapStone Container Corp. several years ago. KapStone tripled its
size when it bought the Charleston Kraft business from MeadWestvaco
thereafter.

74

BAILLIE LUMBER

16,900

Hamburg, N.Y.

Forest/Wood Products

Logs, lumber and proprietary grade lumber products. Private hardwood

lumber company has production facilities in the eastern United States.

75

CENTRAL NATIONAL
GOTTESMAN

16,800

Purchase, N.Y.

Paper Products/Pulp

76

IMERYS

16,700

Paris

77

MITSUI & CO. (USA)

16,300

New York

78

WH INTERNATIONAL

16,000

Lynnwood, Wash.

A privately held pulp, paper, packaging and tissue company. CNG bought
Bradner National of Illinois in 2013 to complement the Lindemeyr division
and enhance the Midwest network. Bought Spicers Paper Canada in
2015.

Minerals

Mineral-based specialties in industrial applications in 234 industrial sites

worldwide. Expertise in geology and mining.

Conglomerate

Largest overseas subsidiary of Japan's Mitsui & Co., a diversified global

trading, investment, and service enterprise with a global network of 140
offices in 65 countries.

Logs & Lumber

Exports through Seattle and Tacoma, mostly to China and South Korea.
Operating parent of Kmart and Sears since 2005. Operates 1,700 stores
in U.S. and Canada and closed 234 underperforming stores in 2014.
Spun-off Land's End in 2014, but kept its shops in Sears stores. Among
its brands are Kenmore, Craftsman, DieHard, Kardashian Kollection, Joe
Boxer and Sandra by Sandra Lee.

78

SEARS HOLDING

16,000

Hoffman Estates,
Ill.

80

ACTIVE MINERALS
INTERNATIONAL

15,900

Sparks, Md.

81

STAPLE COTTON
COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION

15,800

Greenwood, Miss.

TIE

82

CGB ENTERPRISES

15,700

Mandeville, La.

TIE

82

FORNAZOR INTERNATIONAL

15,700

Hillsdale, N.J.

84

T&T GROUP

15,500

Humble, Texas

85

VINMAR INTERNATIONAL

15,400

Houston

Chemicals

Global polymer and chemical marketing organization and project

specialist. Offers financing.

86

GLENCORE

15,300

Stamford, Conn.

Diversified

Headquarted in Baar Switzerland, Glencore, an integrated producer and

marketer of commodities, completed its merger with Xstrata in May 2013.
There are more than 90 offices in more than 50 countries with metals and
minerals, energy and agricultural natural resource interests. Corporate
name has since reverted back to Glencore.

87

DEFENSE COMMISSARY
AGENCY

15,200

Fort Lee, VA

Groceries/Household
Items

DeCA commissaries sell groceries and household items at cost plus 5

percent to active and retired members of the U.S. uniformed services and
their families.

88

LAMEX FOODS

14,600

Minneapolis

Frozen Foods

89

RESOLUTE FOREST
PRODUCTS

14,500

Montreal

TIE

90

KAMIN

13,800

Macon, Ga.

TIE

90

ANHEUSER-BUSCH INBEV

13,800

St. Louis, Mo.

TIE

90

CALAWAY TRADING

13,800

Ellensburg, Wash.

TIE

Retail-Consumer Goods

Minerals

Industrial minerals supplier of gel quality attapulgite clay, air float kaolin,
combined silica and fluorspar minerals, to the glass manufacturing
market.

Cotton

Cotton cooperative for Mid-South and Southeastern upland cotton crop.

Offers crop financing, warehousing and marketing.

Agriculture/Diversified

Large inland-river shipper, owned by cooperative Zen-Noh, Zen-Noh

Grain and trading firm Itochu. Specializes in grain, feed ingredients,
soybean processing, bioenergy and fertilizer trade. Operates barge fleet
and owns Consolidated Terminals & Logistics.

Animal Feed

Exporting since 1979, specializing in grain, feed ingredients and forage.

Chemicals/Recyclables

Exports plastic scrap and synthetic resins to reprocessing and

compounding plants located in the Guangdong province of China.

Traders in frozen and chilled foods with 16 offices in 13 countries.

Corporate headquarters are in England. Lamex Agrifoods opened in
2011.

Paper/Pulp /Wood
Products

Previously known as AbitibiBowater and emerged from bankruptcy

protection in U.S. and Canada five years ago. Has 40 facilities in the
U.S., Canada and South Korea, and markets to more than 80 countries.
Sales of $4.3 billion in 2014.

Minerals-Clay

Previously part of JM Huber, now owned by Imin Partners. Operates

three mines at Macon, Sandersville and Wrens, Georgia. Produces and
exports kaolin clay, primarily to Asia via the Port of Savannah. Acquired
Cadem in 2012.

Beverages

Animal Feed & Forage

Leuven, Belgium based. More than 200 beer brands including Budweiser
Corona, Stella Artois, Becks, others. Global revenue of $47.1 billion in
2014.
Exports hay from U.S. West Coast to Korea, Japan, China, and the
United Arab Emirates.

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METIS INTERNATIONAL

13,700

Cerritos, Calif.

94

MILLS BROTHERS
INTERNATIONAL

13,300

Seattle

95

SINO PAPER

12,600

Anaheim, Calif.

Paper/Recyclables

Exports recovered wastepaper to China.

TIE

96

ZEN-NOH GRAIN

12,300

Covington, La.

Animal Feed/Grain

Zen-Noh Group Companies, Tokyo-based federation of agricultural

cooperatives owns Zen-Noh Grain, specialist in grain and animal feed
exports to Japan. Zen-Noh is a part owner of CGB Enterprises, ranked
No. 82

TIE

96

ZEN TRADING

12,300

San Francisco

Animal Feed/Grain

Animal feed and hay via the West Coast ports to Asia, primarily to Japan.

98

TRANS PACIFIC TRADING

12,100

Richmond, B.C.

Lumber

TIE

99

AMERICA METAL EXPORT

12,000

Alhambra, Calif.

Metal Recyclables

Exports copper scrap to Zhejiang Tianshen Copper in China, a producer

and manager of copper alloys.

TIE

99

THIELE KAOLIN

12,000

Sandersville, Ga.

Minerals

Processed kaolin clay facilities in North America and Europe. Thiele

mines, processes, blends and delivers the full spectrum of kaolin coating
and filler pigments for various applications.

TIE

99

HUSQVARNA GROUP

12,000

Charlotte, N.C.;
Olathe, Kansas

Paper/Recyclables

Food/Grain

Outdoor
Machinery/Equipment

Exports recovered wastepaper to China and South Korea.

Family owned grain, feed and seed export trading company. Global
Harvest Foods subsidiary. West Coast exports to Asia.

Hampton Affiliates of Portland, also known as Hampton Lumber Sales,

acquired firm in August 2012. Specializes in soft and hardwood lumber
sales, primarily to Japan and China.

Power products including chain saws, trimmers, robotic lawn mowers and
garden tractors sold via dealers and retailers. Head office is in
Stockholm. The U.S. Forest and Garden goup is based in Charlotte,
North Carolina, and the Construction group is in Olathe, Kansas.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, contact Marsha Salisbury, JOC research editor, msalisbury@joc.com, 973-776-7828.

About the Rankings

The Journal of Commerce's annual Top 100 U.S. Importers and Exporters ranking begins with data from PIERS, a sister product of the JOC within IHS Maritime & Trade, and is enhanced by information gathered from
other industry sources.
The figures are expressed in 20-foot-equivalent units, or TEUs, the most common measurement of containerized ocean shipping. One standard 40-foot ocean container equals two TEUs.
These lists are restricted to shippers beneficial owners of containerized cargo that entered or exited U.S. ports by ocean vessel during 2014. The statistics do not include shippers associations, carriers, non-vesseloperating common carriers, forwarders or brokers, third-party logistics providers, banks, or "to-order" negotiable bills of lading, or data falling under privacy strictures. International import and export cargoes into
and out of the U.S. via air, rail or truck are not included.
In tandem with last year's ranking and considerable industry research, the list also identifies corporate subsidiaries and strives to reflect any changes in corporate status related to mergers, acquisitions, spinoffs,
formal name changes or bankruptcy filings. We also identify the location of corporate headquarters and, if the global headquarters is outside the U.S., the parent company. We indicate a website if one is available
and the industry sector, adding a short note about each company, often recent news or an interesting fact.
These rankings represent our best approximation of the total international oceanborne shipments by these companies and their subsidiaries. We welcome your feedback.
For additional insight and analysis of the JOC Top 100 Importers and Exporters in 2014 in the U.S. container trade along with emerging trade trends, tune in on June 23 at 2 p.m. ET for a free 75-minute webcast,
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