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

In May 2026, the Port of Oakland received 523 kt of containerised imports worth $2.41B (-4% by weight vs May 2025), led by China at 170 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 170 kt$0.70B
Vietnam 44 kt$0.25B
Thailand 30 kt$0.15B
Italy 22 kt$0.07B
Indonesia 21 kt$0.07B

Top commodity chapters (HS2)

beverages, spirits and vinegar 42 kt
electric machinery etc; sound equip; tv equip; pts 41 kt
plastics and articles thereof 37 kt
furnit;bedding,mattres;luminaires,light fix;prefab 35 kt
nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery etc.; parts 33 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

656 328 2025-05: 544 kt2025-06: 466 kt2025-07: 656 kt2025-08: 558 kt2025-09: 552 kt2025-10: 511 kt2025-11: 482 kt2025-12: 503 kt2026-01: 551 kt2026-02: 432 kt2026-03: 542 kt2026-04: 559 kt2026-05: 523 kt 523 2025-052025-112026-05
Containerised imports at the Port of Oakland, kt/month. Source: US Census, mirrored.
2026-05 523 kt$2.41B
2026-04 559 kt$2.42B
2026-03 542 kt$2.40B
2026-02 432 kt$1.74B
2026-01 551 kt$2.35B
2025-12 503 kt$2.06B
2025-11 482 kt$1.92B
2025-10 511 kt$2.00B
2025-09 552 kt$2.16B
2025-08 558 kt$2.24B
2025-07 656 kt$2.68B
2025-06 466 kt$1.96B
2025-05 544 kt$2.15B

Cite this

In print: The Port of Oakland received 523 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-oakland-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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