Question 3: What POE receive these high-risk imports?
The next step was to identify the US seaports that received soy-based imports from the 43 ASFV-positive countries in 2018 and 2019. Thirty-seven seaports imported 177,697 MT of soy-based imports over this period, with New Orleans, Charlotte, NC, San Francisco, CA, and Seattle, WA accounting for 88.6% of imports (157,574 MT) (Table 4a). Based on data from question 2, POE summaries specific for China (Table 4b) and the Ukraine (Table 4c) were conducted. In 2018, a total of four POE received greater than 88% of all of soy-based imports from China: San Francisco/Oakland, CA (60.36%), Seattle, WA (20.54%), Baltimore, MD (4.13%), and Los Angeles, CA (3.78%). In 2019, 70.4% of soy-based imports entered the port of San Francisco, 12.8% entered the port of Seattle, while 0.8 and 7.3% entered at the ports of Baltimore and Los Angeles, respectively (Table 4b). Regarding the Ukraine, in 2018 and 2019 most soy-based products entered the US via the seaports of New Orleans, LA and Charlotte, NC, with a small amount entering via the port of Baltimore in 2018 (Table 4c).