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US imports from Vietnam — monthly data by port and commodity

In May 2026, the 8 major US container gateways received 1,367 kt of containerised imports from Vietnam, worth $9.15B (+3% by weight year-on-year), arriving mainly through Los Angeles & Long Beach. Against full-year 2018, Vietnam’s 2025 containerised volume through these gateways was 3.1× the 2018 level. Counted by US customs; mirrored and revision-tracked by the Trimtab US Trade Ledger. Updated: 2026-08-06.

National context (all modes, all ports, TT-005 method): US goods imports from Vietnam in June 2026 were $25.2B — the gateway figures above are the containerised-seaport slice of that total.

Which US gateways receive it · May 2026

Savannah 175 kt
Houston 126 kt
Norfolk 92 kt
Charleston 69 kt
Oakland 44 kt

What arrives in the boxes (top HS2 chapters)

furnit;bedding,mattres;luminaires,light fix;prefab 312 kt
electric machinery etc; sound equip; tv equip; pts 146 kt
plastics and articles thereof 109 kt
nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery etc.; parts 90 kt
articles of iron or steel 62 kt

Last 13 months

1.5k 746 2025-05: 1.3k kt2025-06: 1.4k kt2025-07: 1.5k kt2025-08: 1.4k kt2025-09: 1.4k kt2025-10: 1.3k kt2025-11: 1.3k kt2025-12: 1.4k kt2026-01: 1.5k kt2026-02: 1.3k kt2026-03: 1.4k kt2026-04: 1.2k kt2026-05: 1.4k kt 1.4k 2025-052025-112026-05
Containerised imports from Vietnam through the 8 US gateways, kt/month. Source: US Census, mirrored.
2026-05 1,367 kt$9.15B
2026-04 1,243 kt$8.29B
2026-03 1,350 kt$8.20B
2026-02 1,263 kt$8.05B
2026-01 1,468 kt$9.50B
2025-12 1,371 kt$8.38B
2025-11 1,336 kt$8.32B
2025-10 1,278 kt$8.91B
2025-09 1,433 kt$9.67B
2025-08 1,396 kt$9.03B
2025-07 1,492 kt$9.88B
2025-06 1,411 kt$9.29B
2025-05 1,326 kt$8.22B

Cite this

In print: US containerised imports from Vietnam through the eight major US container gateways were 1,367 kt in May 2026, 3.1 times their 2018 level on a full-year basis, according to US Census Bureau port-level records mirrored and archived by the Trimtab US Trade Ledger (retrieved 2026-08-06) — trimtabist.com/us-imports-from-vietnam
For the record: Trimtab Port Ledger · TT-008 · Census Schedule C 5520 · retrieved 2026-08-06

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Method & machine-readable

Scope: containerised imports through the 8 major US container gateways (LA/LB, NY-NJ, Savannah, Houston, Charleston, Norfolk, Oakland, Seattle-Tacoma) — a defined slice, not a national total. Source: US Census port-level trade, port of unlading. Census revises prior months; this mirror archives every restatement. Country codes are Census Schedule C, verified against the official list. Cross-checked against independent AIS observation of the same gateways (method).
MCP: query_series, search_series — no API key · Ports: Los Angeles & Long Beach · New York & New Jersey · Savannah · Houston · Charleston · Norfolk · Oakland · Seattle & Tacoma
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