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The Border Intelligence Desk

Latest · August 2026
624,456
−0.9% vs the same month a year ago

624,456 trucks crossed into the U.S. from Mexico in August 2026. Laredo carried 41.4% of them. 12-month average: 634,425 a month. Live data, the policy clock and the argument behind them, in one place.

Drag along the line to read any monthEnter the desk →Trucks entering the U.S., all U.S.–Mexico ports · BTS Border Crossing Entry Data · monthly counts, not seasonally adjusted · bold line: 12-month average
Right now

Every Laredo crossing, live

Truck and car waits at each Laredo bridge, straight from CBP. The bars move when the feed does, and the panel keeps reading it while this page is open.

Trucks Cars
Bridge I
No trucks
Closed
Bridge II
No trucks
60 min
Colombia Solidarity
Open
Open
World Trade Bridge
Open
No cars

No trucks or No cars means the crossing doesn't carry that traffic.

CBP Border Wait Times · Read at 2:40 PM CT

Peso per dollar17.71Banco de México · FIX World Trade Bridge · trucksNo delayCBP · as of 1:00 pm CDT
The ranking

Laredo against every other port

Northbound truck crossings over the last 12 months, by port. Laredo handled 3.0 times as many as Otay Mesa, the next busiest.

  1. 1Laredo2.7M
  2. 2Otay Mesa906K
  3. 3Hidalgo653K
  4. 4Ysleta598K
  5. 5Calexico East392K
  6. 6Nogales379K
  7. 7Eagle Pass291K
  8. 8Brownsville278K

BTS Border Crossing Entry Data · trucks · trailing 12 months

The Clock

Policy deadlines

The dates that move the border, placed on a real calendar from today.

43daysChina §301 exclusions expireNov 9, 2026 · Extended Dec 2025; 2nd review open277daysFirst annual USMCA review~Jul 1, 2027 · Annual reviews now run to 2036
The Numbers

The border, by the figures

Every figure is dated and sourced, and each one opens the dashboard behind it.

$872.8B U.S.–Mexico goods trade2025 · Census$354B Port Laredo trade2025 · #1 Mexico gateway26 U.S.–Mexico ports of entry52 crossings7.6M Truck crossings2025 · border-wideNo delay World Trade Bridge waitCBP · as of 1:00 pm CDT17.71 Peso / USDBanco de México · FIX
The Dispatch

Latest from the desk

From The Bridge · refreshed hourly

Sep 2, 2026The Year the World Ran Out of GiveAlmost every economy lost the ability to make more of what people want. One didn't. That's the trade fight nobody is naming correctly.Read →Jul 14, 2026Vietnam Passed Mexico on the Trade Deficit. China Is Hiding in the Number.The official ranking says China left and Mexico is the problem. Look inside the numbers and it’s close to the reverse.Read →Jul 6, 2026USMCA Is Now a Year-to-Year LeaseThe July 1 review didn’t end the agreement. It did something with a longer price tag: it made uncertainty annual. The bill lands on whoever builds next.Read →Latest data story · Jun 22, 2026The Computer Passed the Car$6B → $30.8BOpen →
The Lab

One lab, four desks

01 Border Intelligence · LiveThe dashboards →Live trade and crossing data across the corridor, Texas, and all 26 U.S.–Mexico ports, plus real-time bridge wait times.
The Border Trade Index soonThe CorridorTexas BorderU.S.–Mexico BorderBridge Wait TimesMonthly snapshots
02 Tariffs & USMCAThe policy tools →Live tariff tracking under IEEPA, §232, and §301, with decision trees, cost calculators, and risk scores, alongside the 2026 USMCA review.
Tariff TrackerUSMCA 2026Cost calculator
03 Interactive Op-EdsThe data stories →Data-driven scrollytelling that turns the argument into something you can scroll, plus a library of standalone charts.
Op-EdsChartsBuilding on TradePort LaredoThe Bridge
04 Tools & ResearchThe terminal →The NAI report series, the keynote deck archive, the Logistechs framework, and the Strategy Room decision theaters.
NAI SeriesLogistechsStrategy Room
The Bridge

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This desk is the data. The Bridge is where I analyze what it means: one clear read on where the border is heading, every Monday. Free.

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Written byDaniel Covarrubias