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What does the Port of Los Angeles & Long Beach import — and from where?

In May 2026, the Port of Los Angeles & Long Beach received 4,820 kt of containerised imports worth $25.05B (+20% by weight vs May 2025), led by China at 2,358 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 2,358 kt$7.53B
Vietnam 606 kt$5.68B
Thailand 301 kt$1.84B
Japan 233 kt$2.30B
South Korea (Republic of Korea) 222 kt$1.43B

Top commodity chapters (HS2)

plastics and articles thereof 562 kt
nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery etc.; parts 526 kt
electric machinery etc; sound equip; tv equip; pts 453 kt
furnit;bedding,mattres;luminaires,light fix;prefab 442 kt
vehicles, except railway or tramway, and parts etc 202 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

5.6k 2.8k 2025-05: 4.0k kt2025-06: 4.6k kt2025-07: 5.6k kt2025-08: 5.0k kt2025-09: 4.6k kt2025-10: 4.4k kt2025-11: 4.3k kt2025-12: 4.6k kt2026-01: 4.5k kt2026-02: 4.2k kt2026-03: 4.3k kt2026-04: 4.7k kt2026-05: 4.8k kt 4.8k 2025-052025-112026-05
Containerised imports at the Port of Los Angeles & Long Beach, kt/month. Source: US Census, mirrored.
2026-05 4,820 kt$25.05B
2026-04 4,700 kt$24.91B
2026-03 4,311 kt$23.06B
2026-02 4,233 kt$21.63B
2026-01 4,505 kt$24.09B
2025-12 4,588 kt$23.16B
2025-11 4,311 kt$21.95B
2025-10 4,379 kt$24.14B
2025-09 4,623 kt$24.94B
2025-08 5,006 kt$27.39B
2025-07 5,639 kt$31.38B
2025-06 4,602 kt$26.07B
2025-05 4,028 kt$22.61B

Cite this

In print: The Port of Los Angeles & Long Beach received 4,820 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-los-angeles-long-beach-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).
CSV: aggregate series · MCP: query_series, gateway_conditions — no API key · Other gateways: New York & New Jersey · Savannah · Houston · Charleston · Norfolk · Oakland · Seattle & Tacoma