diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 7e9bbf313..cd0c97ef2 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 include README.md
 include LICENSE
 include src/confluent_kafka/src/*.[ch]
+include src/confluent_kafka/py.typed
+include src/confluent_kafka/cimpl.pyi
 prune tests
-prune docs
\ No newline at end of file
+prune docs
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3615e2b93..100c0dd14 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ all:
 	@echo "Targets:"
 	@echo " clean"
 	@echo " docs"
+	@echo " mypy"
+	@echo " style-check"
+	@echo " style-fix"
 
 
 clean:
@@ -14,6 +17,9 @@ clean:
 docs:
 	$(MAKE) -C docs html
 
+mypy:
+	python3 -m mypy src/confluent_kafka
+
 style-check:
 	@(tools/style-format.sh \
 		$$(git ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD | egrep '\.(c|h|py)$$') )
diff --git a/requirements/requirements-tests.txt b/requirements/requirements-tests.txt
index 730bd2be5..022c7a8c2 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements-tests.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements-tests.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ urllib3<3
 flake8
 mypy
 types-cachetools
+types-requests
 orjson
 pytest
 pytest-timeout
diff --git a/tools/source-package-verification.sh b/tools/source-package-verification.sh
index 0081d584e..bed6f0d44 100755
--- a/tools/source-package-verification.sh
+++ b/tools/source-package-verification.sh
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ if [[ $OS_NAME == linux && $ARCH == x64 ]]; then
         # Run these actions and tests only in this case
         echo "Building documentation ..."
         flake8 --exclude ./_venv,*_pb2.py,./build
+
+        echo "Running mypy type checking ..."
+        mypy src/confluent_kafka
+
         pip install -r requirements/requirements-docs.txt
         make docs
 
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 2f7b43348..a840be054 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [tox]
-envlist = flake8,py37,py38,py39,py310,py311,py312,py313
+envlist = flake8,mypy,py37,py38,py39,py310,py311,py312,py313
 
 [testenv]
 passenv =
@@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ commands =
 deps = flake8
 commands = flake8
 
+[testenv:mypy]
+deps =
+    mypy
+    types-cachetools
+    types-requests
+commands = mypy src/confluent_kafka
+
 [pytest]
 python_files = test_*
 testpaths = tests