General

With the arrival of the digital information age, customs data has been widely used by many foreign traders. It's simple to say, but do you really understand and use it well in practice? Are your products suitable for customs data development? At present, there are dozens of platforms selling customs data on the market. How can we choose from them and save costs? As a foreign trader who has been in the trade for more than ten years, I have communicated with thousands of foreign trade friends and served them.

Today, we are going to talk about some experience and exchange some basic data usage skills with you here, hoping to help those who are not familiar with customs data. At present, there are many platforms for customs data in the market. The number of countries, the speed of data update, and the operation interface may be different, but the basic principles are similar. It is to sort out and process the data for everyone to search and analyze.

Tips for using customs data

Here are some simple skills you need to know and master when using the customs data platform.

1. First of all, we should note that the customs data we use are bill of lading data from foreign customs. Therefore, the coding and data content are subject to foreign customs. Not our Chinese customs. Therefore, we need to check the information of foreign purchasers, mainly using foreign import data rather than export data.

2. When querying product/purchaser data with customs code, you can enter an 8-digit code first. If no data is found or there is a deviation in the product description, you can re-enter the first six digits for query. (Because of the customs code, normally the first six digits are the same for countries all over the world, but the last two to four digits may be different for each country.)

3. If you want to find the data of a company, when entering the company name:

For example, it is recommended to delete the following words when entering a company name,

You can enter ABCDauto. If not, you can try again,

Enter ABCDand so on.

The company name must be spelled correctly in English, otherwise the result will be incorrect.

4. According to the English name of the product, because there are multiple translations of the English expression of some products, for example, tires can be tyre or tyre, so you can search multiple times to get more results and data. In addition, when entering the English name of the product, you can optimize the product label information. For example, if the tyre you are looking for is too general, you can enter solid tyre to get a solid tyre. (Other non English speaking countries use other languages to search for the same principle).

Information of each country and search skills

Because the customs data of each country is different, each country has its own search method when using and searching.

North America

1. The data of the United States is complete, but sometimes the code of the United States data is not written or incomplete. Therefore, when searching, you can first use the English name of the product to search, and then try coding, or both.

2. Mexico, you can search by code or Spanish name.

Asia

1. India: The data of India can be divided into the data of the whole Indian port and the separate data of Mumbai port. There were no export companies in Hong Kong before. Now the latest data are basically available. Indian data importer company has company information and contact information.

2. Vietnam: Company and product descriptions are in Vietnamese (but some of them can be found in English). Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are described in Russian, while South Korea is described in Korean, with contact information (South Korean data has not been updated 14 years later, and South Korean customs data is no longer open to the public). For the above countries, you can first query by code, copy the product description results or enter the product description in the appropriate language.

3. Pakistan: (Now the new bill of lading has prices). The product descriptions of Sri Lanka and Taiwan are in English.

Europe

Russian air and land transportation, Ukrainian product description and import companies are all in Russian. So you can search with the code first.

South America

The product descriptions of South American countries are mostly in Spanish, while those of Brazil are in English. It is recommended to use the customs code to search at the beginning, see the results, and then use the Spanish or Portuguese name of the product. Colombia, Chile, with customer contact information.

Africa: (Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia)

They are searched in code or English, and African countries basically launched in 2019. If the above countries are not in English, it is recommended to use the customs code to search the results first, and then conduct a precise search again.

At present, many countries (more than 20 in the United States, India, Vietnam, etc.) have not only import data, but also export data. Europe and other countries have no import data, and many foreign trade friends want to check the purchasers in many European countries. Then we can check the European purchasing companies/purchasers through the export data of these countries. For example, through the export data of India, we can find the information of enterprises imported from India by countries all over the world. These importers are also our potential customers.

On transit data and statistical data: when using the customs data platform, these two data are very difficult for our foreign traders. There is no purchaser or supplier in the field, only trend price analysis. In a word, we should pay attention to and master these in the process of using the customs data platform to develop customers.