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Crossing · saved 2026-07-28

Indian container-ship port calls × US goods imports from India

Indian container-ship port calls against US goods imports from India, both indexed 6080100120140202420252026indexed 2026-02-25 2026-04-09 2026-04-09 2026-04-09 2026-04-16 2026-05-22 TT-005 TT-002 n = 24 shared months · 2024-06 → 2026-05 · base window mean (2024-06→2026-05) · retrieved 2026-08-0681 policy events in window, showing the 6 most recentCrossing two series does not connect them. The gap between the two series -40-2002040202420252026index points apart widest -38.6 points at 2026-03 · n = 24 monthsA step suggests a change in how something was measured; a drift suggests a change in the world.

The operator's note

These two tracked within ten index points through all of 2024, then split by 27 to 58 points from March 2025 and never reconverged. The divergence runs in the impossible direction: US customs recorded imports from India flat to strongly up across exactly the window in which PortWatch shows Indian ports losing up to half their container calls. Goods cannot reach the United States without leaving India.

Drawn here, withheld everywhere else

tt002.india.container-calls — Contradicted by TT-005: US imports from India rose while this series shows a 49% collapse. Goods cannot reach the US without leaving India.

F-001 · from 2025-03-01, open-ended

This chart shows the withdrawn span because it is the evidence for the withdrawal. The data itself remains unavailable through the CSV, JSON and agent endpoints.

Findings resting on this crossing

PortWatch's Indian port-call series is unfit for publication from March 2025
F-001 · published
2026-07-28

Cite this crossing

Trimtab bench crossing: tt002.india.container-calls × tt005.india.us-imports, window 2024-06→2026-05, base window mean. Retrieved 2026-08-06. https://trimtabist.com/trust/cross-checks/india-calls-vs-us-imports-2026-07
Sources: Kpler; UN Global Platform; IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org).
US Census Bureau, foreign trade country balance tables.