Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Import Export Statistics
potato import export statistics is best understood as a clearly defined physical-market object rather than a context-free headline. MassGain preserves product classification, origin, destination, volume, value, timing, and source so trade analysis reflects what is actually crossing borders.
Market Data
How to read this market
potato import export statistics data tracks classified potato flows by product, origin, destination, volume, value, timing, and market stage while preserving the code or product definition behind each observation.
Use the data to compare trade, market share, routes, or classification only after fresh, seed, frozen, dehydrated, starch, and prepared products are kept separate and connected with freight, currency, policy, and physical supply.
Data Module
Potato Import Export Statistics
Market objectclassified potato trade flow
Primary measuresprice, volume, availability
Key dimensionsregion, product, quality, period
Commercial usesourcing and market analysis
Controlssource, definition, timing, basis
Analysis
Why this matters
Trade value, physical volume, and product mix can move in different directions, so a headline change may not represent stronger potato demand.
Commercial interpretation should preserve product form, classification, geography, and timing before comparing markets or aggregating flows.
Signal 01
Usable Crop Uncertainty Index
UCUI translates crop and market complexity into a simple uncertainty signal. Higher readings indicate greater uncertainty—not necessarily higher prices.
Understand uncertainty. Anticipate risk. Act earlier.
UCUI is designed to analyze potato-industry publications and data signals across regions, varieties, weather, disease, storage, supply, and demand.
WeatherHigh
DiseaseHigh
StorageMedium
SupplyMedium
Single-day snapshot based on a scan of 11,500+ web and social signals. Get historical and real-time data by clicking the button below.
The MassGain Daily
Today’s market analysis.
A daily editorial synthesis of physical potato data, crop signals, market reporting, and what participants should watch next.
September 10, 2026Latest MassGain publication
Potato prices quiet at $30/cwt as regional harvest damage buzzes beneath the surface
Market indicators are stable, but reporting from Europe and select growing areas shows real, localized crop stress — a reminder that steady headline prices can mask uneven physical risk.
Signal 02
MassGain Potato Index
Independent physical-pricing intelligence and market-trend analysis for procurement, forecasting, contracting, and scenario planning.
Core Russet Carton Median
312.45 USD/MT
Latest qualifying physical-market observation
+4.75 (+1.55%)
Price discovery for the physical potato market
MPI is designed to track physical pricing data, price trends, deltas, and divergences across regions and potato types.
Series window45 days
Current public coverageCore russet cartons
Primary source basisQualifying USDA physical rows
UnitUSD per metric tonne
Single-day snapshot based on most recent 45 days worth of data. Limited to US Russets only. Get more complete, global data about all varieties by clicking the button below.
Signal 03
MassGain Spot Reference
An independent spot reference designed for price discovery, contract discussions, procurement comparisons, and risk modeling.
Russet Burbank — U.S. Midsize
305 USD/MT
Demonstration reference format
+1.6% WoW · Confidence: High
A trusted benchmark for pricing, contracts, and risk
MSR is intended to use real transactions and verifiable physical-market data to support negotiations, price checks, contracting, and risk models.
ProductRusset Burbank
SpecificationU.S. midsize, 40–70 count
Reference typePhysical spot benchmark
StatusIn development
Based on most recent 45 days worth of data. Limited to US Russets only. Get more complete, global data about all varities by clicking the button below. Full access also includes historical data -- including depreciated NYMEX/CBOE/EEX spot references -- projections, trends, and AI-driven insights.
The MassGain Product Ladder
From insight to intelligence to action
Four integrated products built for the physical potato market, delivered through public pages, reports, exports, dashboards, and API access.
1
Content
Original research, commentary, aggregated news, and market updates.
- What matters right now?
- What is happening out there?
2
UCUI™
Usable Crop Uncertainty Index: an AI-powered signal of crop risk and market uncertainty.
- Understand uncertainty
- Anticipate risk
- Act earlier
3
MPI™
MassGain Potato Index: independent physical-pricing intelligence and trend analysis.
- Price discovery
- Regional trends
- Procurement planning
4
MSR™
MassGain Spot Reference: an independent benchmark for price discovery and risk modeling.
- Contracts
- Negotiations
- Risk models
Content + UCUI + MPI + MSR + API access
Get historical series, regional detail, constituent data, exports, alerts, and direct data access.
Overview
Who is this for?
This page is for exporters, importers, processors, growers, lenders, and trade analysts comparing potato import and export statistics. Potato trade spans fresh potatoes, seed, frozen fries and other frozen products, dehydrated products, chips, starch, and prepared forms, so aggregate trade totals can be misleading unless the underlying product classifications are separated.
MassGain organizes trade flows by HS code, reporting country, partner country, quantity, customs value, unit value, and period. It connects import and export movements with production, processing capacity, crop quality, freight, currency, tariffs, sanitary restrictions, and destination-market demand.
The platform helps users distinguish volume growth from higher prices or product-mix shifts and avoids combining commercially different potato categories into one headline number. This supports sourcing, market-entry analysis, capacity planning, and credit or investment work.
Use Case
A processor sees total potato exports rise and assumes overseas demand for its product has strengthened. MassGain separates frozen, fresh, seed, dehydrated, and starch flows and shows that most of the increase came from a different category, preventing a false demand signal.
FAQs
What is included in potato import and export statistics?
Fresh, seed, frozen, prepared, dehydrated, chip, starch, and other products may appear under separate trade classifications.
Why should potato trade data be separated by HS code?
Different potato products have different end uses, prices, trade patterns, and commercial drivers.
What is trade unit value?
It is customs value divided by reported quantity and is useful for analysis, though it may not equal the exact transaction price.
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Data and Methodology
Professional market-data standards
MassGain is building transparent public market infrastructure. Each live metric will identify its date, unit, coverage, methodology, and source basis.
Data provenance
MassGain uses public, licensed, contributed, and independently derived physical-market information. Source availability and publication schedules vary.
Timing and revisions
Figures may reflect the latest available observation rather than a same-day transaction. Source data and MassGain calculations may be corrected, restated, or revised.
Not transactional pricing
MassGain figures are informational reference values and do not constitute executable bids, offers, settlements, or guarantees that a transaction can occur at the displayed value.
No individualized advice
Content and data are provided for informational and analytical purposes and do not constitute financial, investment, legal, trading, or individualized procurement advice.
Independent publication
Certain observations may be derived from USDA reports. MassGain is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the USDA.
Commercial use and licensing
Public display does not grant rights to reproduce, redistribute, republish, or incorporate MassGain indices or references into commercial products or contracts without authorization.