Where the US Exports Gasoline and Diesel, by Country

Mexico took 477 of the 872 thousand barrels a day of U.S. gasoline exports in 2025 (54.7 percent) and 216 of 1,250 thousand of distillate, the EIA category that holds diesel (17.3 percent), according to EIA's exports-by-destination tables of October 30, 2026, which carry the final 2025 data.

Those are the largest single shares in each market, and they are different kinds of dominance. Gasoline is a Western Hemisphere trade: the Americas (Mexico, Canada, Central America, the Caribbean and South America) took 859 of the 872 thousand b/d, and Mexico alone was 55.5 percent of that Americas total. Distillate is spread wider. Ten destinations took 71.4 percent of it, South America (439 thousand b/d) took twice as much as Mexico, and European destinations took 254 thousand, 20.3 percent. Jet fuel is the smallest of the three at 216 thousand b/d, and Mexico (50) and Canada (41) took 42.1 percent between them.

The three fuels together averaged 2.34 million barrels a day in 2025, 21.7 percent of all U.S. crude oil and petroleum product exports of 10,785 thousand b/d. Mexico's gasoline volume is 46 thousand b/d below its 2018 peak of 523, and its distillate volume is the lowest since 2016. Early 2026 monthly data, which are preliminary, show distillate and jet fuel exports running well above 2025 and the Netherlands and the United Kingdom ahead of Mexico in some months. The crude side of the export story is on the separate US crude oil exports page, whose 2025 crude figure of 3,961 thousand b/d is the one used here.

Final 2025 data against the March figures

EIA's own summary of this question is a Today in Energy article of March 9, 2026, "U.S. exports of major transportation fuels in 2025 were about the same as in 2024". It was written from Petroleum Supply Monthly data, which is preliminary. Since then EIA has published the Petroleum Supply Annual with data for 2025 (September 1, 2026), and the destination tables, as released October 30, 2026, show different 2025 values. Several of the March numbers changed. EIA's explanatory notes describe the rule: "We publish the final monthly values for the previous year in the PSA. These values reflect all PSM resubmissions and other data corrections. The values contained in the PSA are our most accurate measure of petroleum supply activity." The notes also say EIA does not expect the preliminary monthly data "to have the same level of accuracy as the final monthly data published in the PSA", while expecting them "to exhibit similar trends and product flow characteristics". The March article does not itself explain its differences from the annual tables; the replacement of preliminary monthly values by final ones is this page's reading of the cause.

One headline sentence changed direction and another changed size. In March, gasoline exports were up 28 thousand b/d (3 percent) on 2024; in the annual table they are 872 against 874, a change of -2 (-0.2 percent), so gasoline was flat. Distillate's decline grew from 28 thousand b/d to 41 thousand (3.2 percent), and jet fuel's rise of 6 thousand b/d (2.9 percent) is the only one of the three that grew. The March article's statement that gasoline and jet fuel both increased no longer holds for gasoline. Its note that the United Kingdom "set a record" at 89 thousand b/d in 2025 also no longer holds: the table gives 85 thousand b/d for 2025 and 86 for 2024, and 2024 remains the highest year from 1993 on. The Bahamas, which the article listed fourth among gasoline buyers at 4 percent, is at 2.6 percent in the annual table, behind Ecuador, Costa Rica, Honduras and Panama.

What did not change is the ordering that matters. Mexico is still first for all three fuels, distillate is still the largest of the three, and the three together are still about 2.3 to 2.4 million b/d. Anyone comparing this page with a news story that quotes the March numbers will find the gaps in Table 1. Every 2025 annual figure elsewhere in this article comes from the annual tables. The monthly figures (Table 12's January to August columns and Table 13) come from the monthly tables, and the 2026 ones are labelled preliminary because the 2025 revisions above show how far a monthly figure can move.

Gasoline buyers, ranked for 2025

EIA's exports-by-destination menu lists finished motor gasoline and motor gasoline blending components as two separate products and has no combined gasoline entry. Here "gasoline" means the two added together by country, 778 thousand b/d of finished gasoline plus 94 thousand of components, 872 thousand in total. Table 2 ranks the ten largest destinations on that basis. EIA rounds to whole thousands of barrels a day, and 36 destinations show a rounded value of one thousand b/d or more for 2025.

Mexico's 477 thousand b/d is 54.7 percent of the total and 9.4 times Guatemala's 51, the second-largest buyer. It was down 21 thousand b/d (4.2 percent) from 2024 after four years between 498 and 505 thousand. The next nine destinations add up to 265 thousand b/d, and the full top ten to 85.1 percent. Seven of the ten are in Central America or the northern Andean countries (Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama and El Salvador), each between 21 and 51 thousand b/d. The six Central American buyers in the table taken together (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua) took 151 thousand b/d in 2025 against 106 in 2020, 42 percent more.

Canada took 46 thousand b/d in 2020 and 23 thousand in 2025, half as much; its 23 is level with its 2011 figure of 23 and below every year from 2012 to 2024, after a 2013 peak of 63. Chile fell from 46 thousand b/d in 2022 to 12 in 2025 and Brazil from 38 to 13. Between 2024 and 2025 the largest gains were Ecuador (+10), Brazil (+10) and Costa Rica (+6), and the largest losses were Mexico (-21), Canada (-13) and Venezuela (-7). Without Mexico, U.S. gasoline exports were 395 thousand b/d in 2025 against 341 in 2020, so the rest of the world's purchases grew by 54 thousand b/d while Mexico's grew by 38.

Blending components go to different buyers

EIA's glossary defines motor gasoline blending components in these terms: "Naphthas (e.g., straight-run gasoline, alkylate, reformate, benzene, toluene, xylene) used for blending or compounding into finished motor gasoline." They are about a tenth of the gasoline export total, 94 of 872 thousand b/d (10.8 percent), but they change some country rankings a great deal. In 2025 8 destinations received blending components at a rounded one thousand b/d or more, and the top three (Mexico at 42, Bahamas at 18, Canada at 15) took 80 percent of them.

In Canada's case 65 percent of the 23 thousand b/d it received was blending components, and for the Bahamas it was 78 percent of 23. Ecuador moved from 2 thousand b/d of components in 2024 to 12 in 2025, a rise of 10 thousand b/d, against a rise of 10 thousand in its total gasoline volume (20 to 30). A ranking built on finished gasoline alone would put Canada at 8 thousand b/d, far below the 23 in Table 2. Mexico buys the most of both: its 435 finished plus 42 of components make 55.9 percent of finished-gasoline exports and 44.7 percent of component exports. Guatemala, the second-largest buyer of finished gasoline, took no components at a rounded one thousand b/d.

Diesel and distillate: Latin America and Europe

EIA reports diesel under distillate fuel oil, which its glossary defines as "a general classification for one of the petroleum fractions produced in conventional distillation operations. It includes diesel fuels and fuel oils." The definition adds that No. 1, No. 2 and No. 4 diesel fuel are used in on-highway and off-highway engines, while No. 1, No. 2 and No. 4 fuel oils are used primarily for space heating and electric power generation. The export tables do not separate the two uses. They split distillate only by sulfur content, and by that measure 86.5 percent of 2025 exports (1,081 of 1,250 thousand b/d) was the 15 ppm and under grade. For the domestic price side of the same fuel see diesel prices explained, and for the distinction between heating oil and road diesel, heating oil vs diesel.

Mexico is first, but it is the only top-three buyer whose volume fell in 2025: it went from 268 thousand b/d in 2024 to 216, a drop of 52 (19.4 percent) to the lowest since 2016, when it was 183. Its share of U.S. distillate exports, 17.3 percent, compares with 26.8 percent in 2021. The top ten took 71.4 percent of 1,250 thousand b/d, a lower concentration than gasoline's 85.1 percent, and 52 destinations show one thousand b/d or more.

Chile is the steady buyer, between 99 and 132 thousand b/d in every year from 2020 to 2025. Brazil is the volatile one. Its purchases fell from 179 thousand b/d in 2020 to 46 in 2023 and 43 in 2024, then rose 2.3 times to 100 in 2025, adding 57 thousand b/d, the largest gain of any buyer. EIA's March article says the lower exports to Brazil "partly reflect a change in global distillate trade after 2022" and continues: "U.S. and EU sanctions on Russia reduced imports of distillate from Russia into European markets after the EU issued a ban on such imports in December 2022. Many Brazilian importers began importing discounted fuel from Russia during this time, which displaced volumes from the United States." The annual tables carry no explanation of the 2025 rebound, and none is offered here.

The Netherlands took 43 thousand b/d in 2020 and 99 in 2025, 2.3 times as much, and its 2025 volume is the highest since 2014, when it was 116. The United Kingdom went from 28 thousand b/d in 2020 and 28 in 2022 to 86 in 2024 and 85 in 2025. Taken as a region, European destinations took 165 thousand b/d in 2020 (13.9 percent of the total), 78 in 2021, 327 in 2024 and 254 in 2025 (20.3 percent). The decline from 2024 came from the smaller buyers: Belgium went from 39 to 5 thousand b/d, Poland from 26 to 9 and France from 35 to 26, while Spain rose from 7 to 16. On the European side, the March article says: "Distillate exports to destinations in Europe remained stronger in 2025 than they were before 2022."

The other buyers in Table 4 are Andean, Central American and Argentine. Ecuador reached 85 thousand b/d, its highest of any year since 1993 and nearly twice its 43 of 2020. Peru took 71 thousand, Panama fell to 44 from 70 in 2020 and 71 in 2023, and Guatemala took 37. India's purchases rose from 1 thousand b/d in 2023 to 19 in 2024 and 22 in 2025, which makes it the largest destination in Asia and the Middle East ahead of Singapore at 19; the whole group took 45 thousand b/d. The U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico appear in the same table because EIA counts shipments to U.S. territories as exports: 34 thousand b/d of distillate went to them in 2025.

Sulfur grades and renewable diesel

The low-sulfur grade is the whole story for the big buyers: 215 of Mexico's 216 thousand b/d, 124 of Chile's 125, 96 of the Netherlands' 99 and 83 of the United Kingdom's 85. The higher-sulfur grades go to a different list. Guatemala (24), Honduras (19) and El Salvador (11) lead the greater-than-15-to-500 ppm grade, which is 97 thousand b/d in all, and Singapore (12) leads the greater-than-500-to-2,000 ppm grade of 72. That last grade fell from 106 thousand b/d in 2021 to 72 in 2025.

EIA reports renewable diesel in a separate line under biofuels, not within distillate fuel oil. It lists 41 thousand b/d of renewable diesel exports for 2025, the first year in which the table carries a value for that line, and the rows in Tables 4 and 5 do not include it. How the two fuels differ in production and trade is covered in renewable diesel vs biodiesel.

Jet fuel buyers

Jet fuel is the smallest of the three exports and the one with the sharpest recovery. At 216 thousand b/d in 2025 it is 2.25 times the pandemic-year 96 thousand of 2020, and 7 thousand below 2018, the highest year since 1993, when it was 223. Exports to Mexico, the largest buyer, rose from 32 thousand b/d in 2020 to a high of 63 in 2024 and then fell 13 thousand to 50.

Canada is the notable second: 41 thousand b/d, 19.0 percent of the total, up 9 from 2024 and the most since 2019, when it was 52. Panama is third at 18. The United Kingdom rose from 3 to 12 thousand b/d and Brazil from 4 to 11, both from small bases. The ten largest buyers took 79.6 percent, and 27 destinations show a rounded one thousand b/d or more. Jet fuel in these tables means product shipped to a destination, and EIA's export statistics leave out "bunker fuels and other supplies and equipment for use on departing vessels, planes, or other carriers engaged in foreign trade", so fuel loaded onto an outbound international flight at a U.S. airport is not counted here. The domestic price side is in jet fuel prices explained.

Mexico against the rest of the Americas

The country-by-country tables hide a regional pattern, so Table 7 groups every destination into eight regions. The grouping is this page's own, since EIA's tables list countries only; the countries in each group that took 1 or more thousand b/d in 2025 are listed in the note. The first four rows are the Americas, with U.S. territories (Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) counted under Central America and the Caribbean because EIA defines exports as shipments to "Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, other U.S. possessions and territories, and foreign countries". Those two territories took 13 thousand b/d of gasoline, 34 of distillate and 6 of jet fuel in 2025.

In gasoline, the Americas are nearly all of the market: 859 of 872 thousand b/d, 98.5 percent. Outside them the four other regions total 13 thousand b/d, and none is above 6 thousand. Within the Americas, Mexico is 55.5 percent, Canada 2.7 percent, Central America and the Caribbean 27.6 percent and South America 14.2 percent. Colombia and Ecuador are the two South American buyers in the top five.

The distillate row has the opposite shape. The Americas took 934 thousand b/d (74.7 percent of the published total, with 4 thousand of rounding in the table), and inside that Mexico is only 23.1 percent. South America is the largest region at 439 thousand b/d, 35.1 percent of the total. South America's share was 36.1 percent in 2020, 30.1 percent in 2023 and 27.7 percent in 2024, which tracks Brazil's drop and recovery. For jet fuel the Americas are 88.9 percent of the total, with Mexico at 26.0 percent of the regional figure.

The Mexican share of exports since 1993

EIA's March article said Mexico had received "more than half of all U.S. gasoline exports in all but three years since we began publishing country-level export data in 1993." The annual history reproduces that, with one condition on the definition. Adding finished gasoline and blending components, Mexico's share was at or below one half in 3 years: 2012 (49.7 percent), 2013 (46.8 percent), 2014 (43.6 percent). On finished gasoline alone it was at or below one half in 4 years, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, because 2015 comes in at 49.8 percent on that narrower basis. The Mexican blending-component series starts in 2004, so for 1993 to 2003 the combined share divides Mexico's finished gasoline by a U.S. total that includes blending components, which makes it a lower bound; the finished-only column is the like-for-like comparison for those years.

U.S. exports of finished gasoline were 105 thousand b/d in 1993 and 296 in 2010, peaked at 879 thousand in 2018, and sat at 778 in 2025. With components added, the series peaked in 2022 at 943 thousand b/d. Mexico took 58 thousand b/d of finished gasoline in 1993 and 186 in 2010, then 523 thousand with components in 2018; the 477 thousand b/d of 2025 is 46 thousand below that high. The dip to or below half in 2012 to 2014 had two parts. First, Mexico's combined volume fell from 310 thousand b/d in 2011 to 252 in 2012 and 237 in 2013, a loss of 73 thousand over two years, while the U.S. total slipped only from 526 to 506. Second, in 2014 the U.S. total rose to 550 thousand b/d while Mexico's rose only to 240, and other buyers took the growth; Canada alone took 59 thousand b/d that year.

Distillate and jet fuel moved the other way. Mexico took 14.3 percent of U.S. distillate exports in 2010 and 12.2 percent in 2015, then 21.9 percent in 2019 and a high of 26.8 percent in 2021, before falling to 17.3 percent in 2025. U.S. distillate exports peaked at 1,381 thousand b/d in 2017, and 2025's 1,250 is 56 thousand below 2019. In jet fuel the Mexican share jumped to 33.3 percent in 2020 and 41.1 percent in 2021, not because Mexican volume surged (it went from 57 thousand b/d in 2019 to 32 in 2020) but because the U.S. total fell from 220 to 96. By 2025 the share was 23.1 percent against 25.9 percent in 2019.

Exports against refinery output

How much of U.S. output goes abroad depends on the denominator. EIA's table of refinery net production counts only what refineries finish, and for finished motor gasoline that was 1,253 thousand b/d in 2025, because it leaves out the finished gasoline that blenders make, which only the refiner and blender series counts. Dividing finished gasoline exports of 778 by that number would give 62 percent, which is not meaningful. The right measure is refiner and blender net production, which EIA's notes define as "refinery and blender production minus refinery and blender inputs". On that basis finished motor gasoline production was 9,462 thousand b/d, of which the refinery-only figure is 13.2 percent. Product supplied, EIA's proxy for domestic demand (see product supplied explained), gives a second yardstick.

Distillate is the fuel most tied to the export market. Exports were 25.0 percent of refiner and blender net production in 2025, against 25.1 percent in 2020, and equal to 32 percent of the 3,908 thousand b/d of product supplied. Gasoline is the opposite: finished exports were 8.2 percent of production, almost unchanged from 8.3 percent in 2020 even though production rose by 720 thousand b/d over those years. Jet fuel's ratio went from 9.4 percent to 11.8 percent, with production up 79 percent over five years.

Gross exports overstate the net position, because the United States also imports these fuels. In 2025 it imported 124 thousand b/d of finished gasoline and 527 thousand of blending components, 651 in all, against exports of 872, so net gasoline exports were 221 thousand b/d. Distillate imports of 159 thousand b/d leave net exports of 1,091, and jet fuel imports of 130 leave 86. The ratios in Table 10 compare two flows in the same year. They are not a trace of which barrels left: exports can come from stocks or from imported product, and the export statistics (from the Census Bureau) and the production statistics (from refinery and blender surveys) are collected separately. How refinery output is shaped by US refinery capacity and by the weekly utilization rate sets the supply that these ratios divide into.

Where the three fuels sit in total exports

Crude oil is the largest U.S. petroleum export at 3,961 thousand b/d in 2025, 36.7 percent of the 10,785 thousand b/d total; the crude figure is the one used on the US crude oil exports page. Propane follows at 1,775, then distillate, which is the third-largest petroleum export in EIA's own wording. Gasoline is fourth and jet fuel is a distant fifth in this list of five.

Total crude and product exports of 10,785 thousand b/d, less imports of 7,937, leave net exports of 2,848 thousand b/d, the net position reported on the crude page. The fuel exports described here carry that net position, because the United States is a net importer of crude (3,961 thousand b/d exported against 6,168 imported, 2,207 thousand net imports) and a net exporter of the products refined from it. The inbound side is in US oil imports by country, and the full domestic balance in US oil production vs consumption.

The first eight months of 2026

EIA's Petroleum Supply Monthly released October 30, 2026 carries data through August 2026. These are preliminary figures, and Table 1 shows how far preliminary 2025 gasoline exports moved when the final values arrived, so every number in this section should be read as provisional. Averages are weighted by the days in each month. January to August 2026 exports of the three fuels averaged 2,742 thousand b/d against 2,256 in the same months of 2025, 21.5 percent more.

Jet fuel is up 57 percent, distillate 21 percent and gasoline 13 percent. The by-destination monthly tables show the latest six months only, March to August 2026, and in them the rankings differ from 2025. The Netherlands averaged 220 thousand b/d of distillate over those six months and Mexico 214; the Netherlands was ahead in March, April, July, August, and Mexico in May and June. For jet fuel the United Kingdom (59) and the Netherlands (53) were ahead of Mexico (50). In gasoline Mexico stayed first, at 429 thousand b/d or 47.6 percent of the six-month total, below its 54.7 percent share of 2025.

EIA's Today in Energy article of July 8, 2026, "U.S. exports of crude oil and petroleum products reached record in April", gives the agency's explanation for the spring surge: "U.S. petroleum exports reached a record in April as disruptions to international crude oil and refined product flows through the Strait of Hormuz increased global demand for U.S. exports." It reports April distillate exports of 1.6 million b/d, "the most since July 2017", and says exports of jet fuel reached record highs in March and stayed high in April. The same article calls exports of motor gasoline "relatively average", which fits Table 12, where gasoline rose least of the three fuels. The monthly destination tables themselves carry no explanation, and the article does not break the changes down by country. The background to the route is in Strait of Hormuz oil flows. Eight months of preliminary data are too few to call a trend, the destinations changed rank within them, and the 2026 column of Table 13 is the data most likely to be revised when the next Petroleum Supply Annual arrives in August 2027. Puerto Rico, which shows a reported zero for finished gasoline in March and April, appears at 34 thousand b/d on the six-month average, a reminder that territory shipments are counted as exports.

How EIA assigns a destination

The destination column in these tables is a customs concept, and EIA's explanatory notes spell out the rule. The notes say EIA receives aggregated export statistics from the Census Bureau, and that EIA defines "the country of destination as the country of ultimate destination or the country where the goods are to be consumed, further processed, or manufactured, as known to the shipper at the time of exportation. If the shipper does not know the country of ultimate destination, we credit the shipment to the last country to which the shipper knows that the merchandise will be shipped in the same form as it was when exported." Two consequences follow from that text. A cargo that the shipper sold to a trader without a final buyer can be credited to the port country, so a volume in the Netherlands or the United Kingdom does not by itself show how much stays there; the tables cannot say. And product bound for blending or refining abroad is credited to the country where the goods are "to be consumed, further processed, or manufactured".

The same notes list what is left out: "Merchandise shipped in transit through the United States from one foreign country to another, when documented as such with U.S. Customs" and "Bunker fuels and other supplies and equipment for use on departing vessels, planes, or other carriers engaged in foreign trade." The notes list these two exclusions. Bunker fuel loaded for departing ships and fuel supplied to departing planes is therefore outside the export figures. Exports also include territories, as quoted above. EIA's table note adds: "Totals may not equal sum of components due to independent rounding." In this article's region table the rounding line is 4 thousand b/d for distillate, 1 for jet fuel and 0 for gasoline. A zero in a country row is a reported value that rounds to zero, which differs from a blank cell, where nothing was reported, and country counts on this page include only those at one thousand b/d or more.

Sources and check dates

Data and sources, all checked November 4, 2026. U.S. Energy Information Administration exports by destination, annual, thousand barrels per day (release of October 30, 2026, which follows the Petroleum Supply Annual of September 1, 2026): finished motor gasoline, motor gasoline blending components, distillate fuel oil, 15 ppm and under, greater than 15 to 500 ppm, greater than 500 to 2000 ppm and kerosene-type jet fuel; the same tables in monthly form (March to August 2026, preliminary). Annual and monthly history pages, for example total finished gasoline, finished gasoline to Mexico, total blending components, blending components to Mexico, total distillate, distillate to Mexico, total jet fuel and jet fuel to Mexico (monthly versions use f=M); the country histories behind individual claims come from each row's "View History" link in the destination tables. National totals: exports, imports, refiner and blender net production, refinery net production and product supplied. Definitions and notes for the exports tables: Exports by Destination. EIA, Petroleum Supply Monthly and Petroleum Supply Annual Explanatory Notes (August 2026), and the Petroleum Supply Annual with data for 2025 (released September 1, 2026) and Petroleum Supply Monthly with data for August 2026 (released October 30, 2026; the next monthly release is November 30, 2026 and the next annual in August 2027). EIA, Today in Energy, U.S. exports of major transportation fuels in 2025 were about the same as in 2024 (March 9, 2026), cited for what EIA reported at that date; later releases changed several of its figures, as Table 1 shows. EIA, Today in Energy, U.S. exports of crude oil and petroleum products reached record in April(July 8, 2026). Regions are this page's grouping. Tables 2, 4 and 6 show the ten largest destinations only; the other destinations are in the all-other rows and in Table 7.