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One newsletter each week. Research on Asia–US trade, ports, tariffs, and freight.
LATEST NEWSLETTERIndia–U.S. freight is getting faster and showing signs of getting cheaper. A tariff of up to 100% may land on the same boxes, and no one has put it on paper yet.
Read the full issue ↗A week of high-level calls produced no deal and no waiver. The notice window for October 18 opens Wednesday.
Read the full issue ↗A new U.S. law allows tariffs of up to 100% on the largest buyers of Russian energy, a group that may include India. Here's what it means for the lane.
Read the full issue ↗India Won the 10% Tier. The Quota That Beats It Is Overdue.
Read the full issue ↗The berth is working fine. The empty-container network feeding it is not.
Read the full issue ↗First-half 2026 throughput data shows significant decline at Dubai port and growth at Indian ports
Read the full issue ↗AI & BUSINESS
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Watch on YouTube ↗Explore human curiosity, judgment, imagination, and the choice to keep thinking.
Watch on YouTube ↗WHAT WE FOLLOW
From factory floors to terminal gates, the story is in how the pieces move together.
Port rankings are a starting point. We look at the reported volumes, the sources behind them, and what changes in cargo movement might reveal across the Asia–US lane.
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AI, robotics, and automation are part of the trade conversation. Follow the developments through the same lens: evidence, context, and real operational questions.
Robotic handling, autonomous carriers, and warehouse automation open a new set of questions for the lane: what is being deployed, where does it fit, and what evidence supports the claims?
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ABOUT JHOHAN
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I’m the founder of Asia Trade Intelligence, where I publish a weekly newsletter exploring Asia–US trade, ports, freight, and supply chains.
On YouTube, I explain AI, business, science, and emerging technology in plain English. My aim is to make complex ideas easier to understand and connect them to real questions about how we live and work.
Before my work in business and research, I served as a Maryland State Trooper. That experience is part of the perspective I bring to my writing and conversations today.
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