The National Organic Program (NOP) is introducing the Organic Insider: Oversight and Enforcement Update, a new, periodic update that highlights NOP’s work in these areas.
This edition presents import data from the first full calendar year of the implementation of the Strengthening Organic Enforcement (SOE) Final Rule, along with an example of how NOP has used that data to prevent the importation of fraudulent products. It also provides an update on how NOP’s complaint investigations have strengthened the organic marketplace.
Presenting Data on 2025 Imports of Organic Products
March 19, 2026, marked two years since NOP began implementing the SOE Final Rule. The rule updated the USDA organic regulations to implement 2018 Farm Bill mandates and respond to industry requests for updates. The rule protects organic integrity by supporting strong organic control systems, improving farm-to-market traceability, increasing import oversight and authority and providing robust enforcement of the organic regulations.
Under the SOE Final Rule, all shipments of organic agricultural products imported into the United States must be associated with a valid NOP Import Certificate (NOP-IC). The certificate contains information about the origin, quantity and product type coming into the United States.
Many organic imports come into the United States under a Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) code that is specific to organic products. Data on those imports are in the Foreign Agricultural Service’s GATS system. Not all organic imports have corresponding HTS codes. The NOP-IC data includes organic imports marked with conventional HTS codes as well, providing a more comprehensive picture of organic imports.
The full detailed data for organic imports in 2025, broken down by HTS code, is on NOP’s website. The following charts show high-level information about 2025 organic imports.
