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Where does America's creatine ship from?

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Official trade figures can't say.

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So we read the shipping records and ran the numbers ourselves.

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24,254 US customs records matched our searches.

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Once we took out duplicates, other chemicals and cargo just passing through,

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5,669 were shipments of bulk creatine.

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Then we sorted every shipment by the country it came from.

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5,012 from China.

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629 from Germany.

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28 from everywhere else.

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In 2015, about a fifth came from Germany.

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Through 2021, US imports from China averaged about 5,000 metric tons a year.

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Then they took off.

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By 2025, they were about six times the 2015 level.

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In 2025,

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93% of all the bulk creatine shipped into the US by sea came from China.

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That includes shipments that left Busan,

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in South Korea, with the shipper's name withheld.

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Germany supplied 6.5%.

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And by mid-October, US imports for 2026 had already passed all of 2025.

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Some creatine made in China is excellent.

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Not every label names the maker.

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So, does your label say where the creatine was made?

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The full method and the data are at trythriveon.com/creatine-imports.

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ThriveOn sells German-made creatine from Alzchem.