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TT-008 · Port ledger

Import value density by gateway

tt008.gateway.value-density-import reported

Containerised import customs value per kg. A LEVEL, comparable across ports in the same month. Its MOVEMENT over time is not interpretable as a price change — at this aggregation a shift in the commodity mix moves it just as readily.

We pulled this number.

STATUS: WITHDRAWN · SINCE 1970-01 · RETURNS WHEN THE CONDITION BELOW IS MET

LEVEL ONLY, AND THE SERIES CANNOT SAY SO BY ITSELF. Comparable across ports in a given month; its movement over time is a mix index wearing a price label. Suspended until it is published together with the HS6 decomposition that separates the two. We will not serve data we cannot stand behind, so this page stays up but the numbers do not.

More on the practice: withdrawn data.

Unit
usd_per_kg
Evidence
EVIDENCE: REPORTED
Tempo
TEMPO: LONG
Covers
2024-01 → now

Counted and published by a named body — for this ledger, the US Census Bureau. We mirror it and keep every revision.

Cite this

In print: Import value density by gateway, per the Trimtab US Trade Ledger, an independent mirror of US Census Bureau, intltrade/imports/porths (retrieved 2026-08-06) — trimtabist.com/series/tt008.gateway.value-density-import
For the record: Trimtab TT-008 Port ledger, "Import value density by gateway" (retrieved 2026-08-06).
Trimtabist TT-008 Port ledger, from US Census Bureau porths. Containerised customs value divided by containerised shipping weight. NOT a price index: Census discontinued its own unit-value indices in 1989 for composition bias. Method: portledger/METHOD.md. Grade: reported.
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This address is permanent. If this figure is revised or corrected, the change is printed here with its size.

Machine readable

Updated: 2026-08-06 (regenerated on every request from the live registry)
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