Plastics and machinery tie at ~14 Mt a year each — but plastics is $34B and machinery $138B. And a container of knit apparel ($11.6/kg) is worth 58 times a container of salt ($0.2/kg).
What it does not say
It does not cover air or land modes — this is the containerised seaborne slice, a defined scope, not a national total.
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Using the Trimtab trade_query tool, what are the biggest US import commodities by weight, and which carry the most value per kilogram?
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“What actually fills the containers?”
Plastics and machinery tie at ~14 Mt a year each — but plastics is $34B and machinery $138B. And a container of knit apparel ($11.6/kg) is worth 58 times a container of salt ($0.2/kg).
It does not cover air or land modes — this is the containerised seaborne slice, a defined scope, not a national total.
I asked the Trimtab US Trade Ledger — open, no key, no account. Ask it something we
haven’t: https://trimtabist.com/asked/what-fills-the-boxes
(via Mrigank Singh — engagement 11 on the board) #Trimtabist