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What does the Port of Houston import — and from where?

In May 2026, the Port of Houston received 1,676 kt of containerised imports worth $5.82B (+10% by weight vs May 2025), led by China at 426 kt. Counted by US customs from declarations filed under penalty; mirrored and revision-tracked by the Trimtab US Trade Ledger. Updated: 2026-08-06.

Top partner countries · May 2026 · containerised imports

China 426 kt$0.96B
India 138 kt$0.40B
Vietnam 126 kt$0.43B
Brazil 85 kt$0.24B
South Korea (Republic of Korea) 73 kt$0.37B

Top commodity chapters (HS2)

articles of iron or steel 165 kt
nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery etc.; parts 139 kt
plastics and articles thereof 130 kt
electric machinery etc; sound equip; tv equip; pts 104 kt
glass and glassware 92 kt

At the port right now

The live AIS layer has no fresh observations at the moment (upstream receiver-network outage — disclosed, not papered over). The Census record above is unaffected. Live board: /gateways.

Last 13 months · containerised import weight & value

1.7k 838 2025-05: 1.5k kt2025-06: 1.4k kt2025-07: 1.6k kt2025-08: 1.5k kt2025-09: 1.4k kt2025-10: 1.4k kt2025-11: 1.2k kt2025-12: 1.3k kt2026-01: 1.6k kt2026-02: 1.3k kt2026-03: 1.5k kt2026-04: 1.6k kt2026-05: 1.7k kt 1.7k 2025-052025-112026-05
Containerised imports at the Port of Houston, kt/month. Source: US Census, mirrored.
2026-05 1,676 kt$5.82B
2026-04 1,588 kt$5.38B
2026-03 1,503 kt$5.39B
2026-02 1,258 kt$4.36B
2026-01 1,564 kt$5.75B
2025-12 1,275 kt$4.58B
2025-11 1,205 kt$4.28B
2025-10 1,387 kt$4.83B
2025-09 1,362 kt$4.99B
2025-08 1,490 kt$5.42B
2025-07 1,617 kt$5.73B
2025-06 1,428 kt$4.89B
2025-05 1,519 kt$5.95B

Cite this

In print: The Port of Houston received 1,676 kt of containerised imports in May 2026, according to US Census Bureau records mirrored and archived by the Trimtab US Trade Ledger (retrieved 2026-08-06) — trimtabist.com/port-of-houston-import-statistics
For the record: Trimtab Port Ledger · TT-008 · /series/tt008.us-gateways.import-weight.csv · retrieved 2026-08-06

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Method & machine-readable

Source: US Census Bureau port-level trade (port of unlading, verified — landlocked ports report zero vessel weight). Grand-total rows only for totals; DET country rows for the breakdown — the overlapping APEC/OECD groupings Census ships in the same response are excluded, or every figure would read ~3× too high. Census revises prior months; this mirror archives every restatement. Cross-checked against independent AIS observation of the same gateways (method).
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