Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Tariff Data
Potato tariff data covers duties and trade measures applied to potatoes and potato products, including ordinary tariffs, quotas, safeguards, preferential rates, and trade remedies. MassGain places the applicable product, origin, and destination treatment inside a landed-cost model with freight, currency, and domestic replacement value; official classifications should still be confirmed.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato tariff data covers border duties and trade measures applied to potatoes and potato products, including ordinary tariffs, tariff-rate quotas, safeguards, preferential rates, and trade remedies. Treatment depends on product classification, origin, and destination.
Use tariff data within a total-landed-cost model rather than as a standalone legal number. Match the exact fresh, seed, frozen, starch, dehydrated, or prepared product code and then add freight, brokerage, inspection, currency, and domestic replacement economics.
Data Module
Potato tariff context
Product codeapplicable customs classification
Originexporting country
Destinationimporting jurisdiction
Dutyordinary or preferential rate structure
Other measuresquota, safeguard, or trade remedy
Decision uselanded cost and origin selection
Analysis
Why this matters
Tariffs can change which potato origin is economically viable without changing the underlying farm or factory price. A low-cost exporter can lose its advantage after duty, while a preferential trade agreement can make a higher origin price competitive.
The commercial interpretation should remain distinct from legal classification. MassGain can model market consequences, but exact tariff treatment should be confirmed through official customs sources or qualified advisers. The useful output is the effect on landed sourcing economics.
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 16, 2026Latest MassGain publication
Potato market steady for now; Russia’s smaller crop is the salient risk
Spot prices are flat and USDA terminal reports read ‘market steady,’ but a renewed forecast for a smaller Russian harvest and recent regional harvest stress leave seasonal import timing and storage losses as the key uncertainty.
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 potato importers, exporters, distributors, processors, procurement teams, and trade-policy analysts that need to understand tariffs applied to potatoes and potato products. Potato tariff data can include ordinary duties, tariff-rate quotas, safeguards, antidumping or countervailing measures, preferential rates, and product-specific treatment by origin and destination.
MassGain helps users connect the legal rate with the physical product and commercial transaction. Fresh potatoes, seed, frozen fries, starch, dehydrated products, and prepared foods use different classification codes and may face different duty treatment. A low foreign origin price can lose its advantage after tariffs, brokerage, inspection, freight, and currency are included, while a preferential agreement may open a sourcing route that previously looked uneconomic.
The analysis supports landed-cost models, origin selection, bid comparison, market-entry review, and policy-risk scenarios. Users can identify which product code and origin apply, model changes in duty, and compare imported supply with domestic alternatives. MassGain does not provide customs or legal advice and users should confirm official classifications and current rates with qualified specialists. It supplies the commodity, trade, and delivered-market context needed to understand how tariffs change practical potato sourcing and competitive economics.
Use Case
An importer compares frozen fries from two countries. One offers the lower factory price but faces a higher duty and no preferential treatment. MassGain combines the tariff data with reefer freight, currency, brokerage, and domestic replacement cost. The higher-priced origin produces the lower landed cost and receives the seasonal award.
FAQs
What can potato tariff data include?
It can include ordinary duties, quotas, safeguards, trade remedies, preferential rates, product codes, origins, and destinations.
Why is the product code important?
Fresh, seed, frozen, starch, dehydrated, and prepared products may receive different tariff treatment.
Does MassGain provide customs advice?
No. It adds market and landed-cost context; official rates and classifications should be confirmed with qualified authorities.
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Data and Methodology
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MassGain uses public, licensed, contributed, and independently derived physical-market information. Source availability and publication schedules vary.
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Figures may reflect the latest available observation rather than a same-day transaction. Source data and MassGain calculations may be corrected, restated, or revised.
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Certain observations may be derived from USDA reports. MassGain is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the USDA.
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