The U.S.–Mexico
Border.
Every land port of entry, by the numbers. $804B in goods cross 22 doors across four states, and the value concentrates harder than almost anyone expects. Live trade and truck crossings, from Census and BTS.
Mexico is the number one U.S. trading partner, and most of that trade settles on land at these ports rather than crossing an ocean. The story the deficit headlines miss is what the flows show: roughly 74 cents of every dollar of Mexican manufactured exports is North American content, so this trade builds a shared production base instead of draining one. That is what makes the land border the place where integration gets settled every day.
Watch how concentrated it is: a handful of Texas ports, led by Laredo, carry the bulk, so the system is only as resilient as its busiest crossings.
One border, twenty-two doors
Every land port, by trade value
U.S. Census Bureau, International Trade · Rolling 12 months · May 2025 – Apr 2026Total import and export value, all modes, by U.S. port of entry. Trade concentrates hard: Laredo alone moves 45.4% of the border's value, and the El Paso Area is a distant second. The El Paso Area combines Ysleta, El Paso, and Tornillo.
Where the border trade lands
By U.S. border state · share of valueTruck crossings by port
BTS · trailing 12 mo · share of border totalData sources & methodology
Latest published · public U.S. government data- Trade value by port: U.S. Census Bureau, International Trade (imports GEN_VAL_MO + exports ALL_VAL_MO), by Schedule D port code, rolling 12 months. Detail releases ~5–6 weeks after the reference month.
- Truck crossings by port: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Border Crossing/Entry Data (monthly, ~2-month lag).
- El Paso Area combines Ysleta, El Paso, and Tornillo, matching Texas Comptroller methodology.
- Total U.S.–Mexico goods trade and land-share: U.S. Census Bureau FT900 and trade-by-mode tables.
Covarrubias, D. (2026). The U.S.–Mexico Border: Trade and Crossings by Port of Entry. https://labs.drdanielcovarrubias.com/us-mexico-border
Live figures are pulled directly from the source APIs at view time; current figures reflect the latest official release on each agency's schedule.
Covarrubias, D. (2026). The U.S.–Mexico Border: Trade and Crossings by Port of Entry. https://labs.drdanielcovarrubias.com/us-mexico-border.