Import activity at the Port of Oakland increased by a whopping 31 percent in July as companies rushed to secure inventory ahead of the federal government’s Aug. 1 tariff implementation, port officials announced this week.

July imports jumped from 70,334 20-foot shipping containers arriving in June to 92,392 in July, a 31.4 percent increase and the highest monthly import volume so far this year, port officials said.

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Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.