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

US imports from Belgium — monthly data by port and commodity

In May 2026, the 8 major US container gateways received 72 kt of containerised imports from Belgium, worth $0.66B (-8% by weight year-on-year), arriving mainly through New York & New Jersey. Against full-year 2018, Belgium’s 2025 containerised volume through these gateways was -23% vs 2018. Counted by US customs; mirrored and revision-tracked by the Trimtab US Trade Ledger. Updated: 2026-08-06.

Which US gateways receive it · May 2026

Charleston 15 kt
Norfolk 13 kt
Houston 12 kt
Savannah 8 kt
Oakland 1 kt

What arrives in the boxes (top HS2 chapters)

prep vegetables, fruit, nuts or other plant parts 13 kt
organic chemicals 9 kt
edible vegetables & certain roots & tubers 5 kt
plastics and articles thereof 5 kt
miscellaneous chemical products 4 kt

Last 13 months

2026-05 72 kt$0.66B
2026-04 59 kt$0.59B
2026-03 81 kt$1.16B
2026-02 59 kt$0.41B
2026-01 62 kt$0.71B
2025-12 63 kt$0.30B
2025-11 60 kt$0.48B
2025-10 61 kt$0.74B
2025-09 57 kt$0.68B
2025-08 75 kt$0.63B
2025-07 74 kt$0.40B
2025-06 73 kt$0.53B
2025-05 78 kt$0.68B

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
Other origins: China · Vietnam · India · Thailand · South Korea · Italy · Germany · Indonesia · Taiwan · Japan · Malaysia · Brazil · Turkey · Spain · France · Cambodia · Chile · Pakistan · Netherlands · United Kingdom · Philippines · United Arab Emirates · Poland · Peru · Australia · Bangladesh · Colombia · Austria · Egypt · all countries