Trimtabist

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

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 — own-recorded AIS

10 merchant vessels alongside, 3 at anchor, 16 underway in the gateway zone (150 m+, AIS type 70–79). Latest observation: 2026-08-05T13:30:37.728ZZ. Live board: /gateways.

Last 13 months · containerised import weight & value

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

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: Los Angeles & Long Beach · New York & New Jersey · Savannah · Houston · Charleston · Norfolk · Seattle & Tacoma