General

US Customs Data is the abbreviation for US Customs Import Bill of Lading Data. US customs data includes every ocean bill of lading imported by the United States from various countries around the world. Due to its comprehensive and timely updates, US customs data is one of the important tools for foreign trade companies or production factories to develop customers and analyze the market for export trade.

The update cycle of US customs data is fast, with an average of every three days and an average monthly data volume of approximately 1.7 million records. During the update process, technical personnel need to convert the original data file into a local database, and at the same time, clean the main field content of the data to meet the specifications of the customs database for users to browse and view normally.

The main content of the data includes: date, bill of lading number, HS CODE, product description, consignee, consignee contact information, shipper, shipper contact information, notifier, notifier contact information, weight and quantity of the goods, loading port of the goods, unloading port in the United States, transportation country or region, trading country or region, ship name, voyage, container number, shipping mark, etc. All text language in US customs data is English.

The U.S. Customs Data Query in the Customs Data System is used to query the following conditions: commodity name, purchaser, supplier, trading country or region, start date, end date, and the function of excluding shipping companies can be checked, so that the records of shipping companies filled in by purchasers will not be displayed in the query results.

Export manufacturers can use US customs import data to analyze the demand for a certain product in the US market, obtain a list of purchasers with import records throughout the history of the United States to this day, understand global export suppliers to the US, analyze the global supply chain of a certain US purchaser, and find the decision-maker and contact information of the purchaser. For logistics freight forwarding companies, it is easier to analyze the import situation of various ports in the United States to enter the global logistics chain.