Research Lab

Trade, Tech & Data Lab

Transforming complex cross-border trade into interactive visualizations, policy tools, and compelling data stories.

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$0.8B

U.S.–Mexico Trade Tracked

Ports of Entry Mapped

Interactive Stories

Tariffs Dev is live and updating

TRADE INTELLIGENCE

Live

The Corridor

The busiest land port in the Western Hemisphere. $354B in trade. ~6M truck crossings. Tariff environment, employment exposure, industrial growth, and binational corridor data.

$354B

Annual trade value

~6M

Truck crossings

41%

Of US-MX land trade

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FEATURED WORK

The Augmentation Gap

What 2 million AI conversations reveal about the future of work. 52% augmentation, 45% automation, and a strategy gap between what’s possible and what organizations are doing.

2M conversations · 52% augmentation · Mar 2026By Daniel Covarrubias

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Op-Ed

52%

Augmentation

45%

Automation

LIVE TOOL

Updating

Tariffs Dev

Live tariff tracking under IEEPA, Section 232, and Section 301. Decision trees, cost calculators, risk scores, and deal monitoring.

10%

China reciprocal

25%

USMCA non-compliant

§301

Lists 1–4 active

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Decision Tree

Navigate tariff authority paths

Tariff Pulse

Timeline of policy changes

Cost Calculators

Model landed costs & fees

Risk Scores

Trade partner exposure

Four Pillars

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Border intelligence dashboards, interactive storytelling, policy tools, and systems frameworks.

LIVE

BORDER INTELLIGENCE

Border Intelligence

Live trade dashboards for the U.S.–Mexico border. From continental overview to corridor-level detail.

The Corridor Live

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STORIES

Interactive Op-Eds

Data-driven scrollytelling that turns complex trade policy into compelling, explorable narratives.

8 Published

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BUILD

Dev / Tools

Prototypes and policy tools. Track tariffs, model scenarios, explore trade dynamics.

Tariffs Dev Live

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SYSTEMS

Logistechs

Frameworks and operations thinking for border economies. Where logistics meets technology and policy.

Frameworks

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About the Lab

Where Research Meets Reality

The Trade, Tech & Data Lab tracks $872.8 billion in U.S.–Mexico bilateral trade across 26 ports of entry. Our interactive dashboards, policy tools, and data stories are used by journalists, policymakers, site selectors, and researchers.

Interactive stories published

$354B

Trade tracked at corridor level

Ports of entry mapped

3K+

LinkedIn impressions on launch day

Meet the researcher

$872.8B

U.S.–Mexico Trade

Ports of Entry

TAMIU

Texas Center

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Trade, Tech & Data Lab

The Corridor

The Augmentation Gap

Tariffs Dev

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Border Intelligence

Interactive Op-Eds

Dev / Tools

Logistechs

Where Research Meets Reality

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Daniel Covarrubias, Ph.D.