Trimtabist
The US Trade Ledger — every US container gateway, every partner country, every month. Census-recorded, AIS-verified.

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 — own-recorded AIS

28 merchant vessels alongside, 5 at anchor, 25 underway in the gateway zone (150 m+, AIS type 70–79). Latest observation: 2026-08-05T13:31:26.118ZZ. Live board: /gateways.

Last 13 months · containerised import weight & value

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

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