In the first nine months of 2024, US pellet exports totaled 7.37 million t, according to the Foreign Agricultural Services (FAS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In the third quarter of 2025, 2.7 million t of pellets were exported (2024: 2.55 million t, +6%). In the first nine months of this year, exports had a cumulative value of US-$1.45 billion (€1.24 billion). In the same period of 2024, wood pellets worth US-$1.37 billion (€1.17 billion) had been exported.
From January to September, the US shipped 5.6 million t of pellets to Great Britain (US-$1.12 billion). This corresponds to a year-on-year increase of 642,000 t, or 13% (2024: 5 million t). Japan followed in second place with 697,000 t and a decrease of 25% compared to the first nine months of last year (2024: 934,000 t). US pellet exports to Denmark grew by 19%, from 398,000 t in 2024 to 475,000 t this year. Meanwhile, deliveries to the Netherlands nearly halved (-47%), reaching a total of only 334,000 t by the end of the third quarter (Q1-Q3 2024: 626,000 t). 96,000 t of pellets were shipped to France (2024: 132,000 t, -27%) and 72,000 t to Belgium and Luxembourg (2024: 64,000 t, +12%).
Exports to Germany totaled 33,000 t in the first nine months (2024: 8,000 t). According to Destatis, however, German pellet imports from the US amounted to 63,000 t during the same period. This is equivalent to two shiploads.
Pellets from the US are mostly industrial pellets used for electricity generation.
