General

With the advent of the digital information era, customs data has been widely used by many foreign traders. It's simple to say, but can 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 money? As a foreign trader who has been engaged in foreign trade for more than ten years, I have communicated and served with thousands of foreign trade friends.

Today, let's talk about some experience, and exchange some basic skills of using data 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 vary, but the basic principles are the same. It is to sort out and process the data for your search and analysis.

Use customs data techniques

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

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

2. When using the customs code to query the product/purchaser data, you can enter an 8-digit code first. If no data is found or there is deviation in the product description, you can re-enter the first six digits to query. (Because of the customs code, normally speaking, the first six digits of the world's countries are the same, 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 you enter the company name:

For example, shenzhou yuyu auto co., ltd, it is recommended to remove the following words when entering the company name,

You can enter shenzhen yuyu auto. If you don't have one, try again,

Enter shenzhen yuyu, and 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, such as tyre or tyre, you can search multiple times to get more results and data. In addition, when you enter the English name of the product, you can optimize the product label information. For example, if the tyre tyre you are looking for is too general, you can enter solid tyre and the result is solid tyre. (Other non-English speaking countries search the same principle in other languages).

Situation and search skills of each country

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

North America

1. The data in the United States is very complete, but the coding of the data in the United States is sometimes incomplete or incomplete. Therefore, the English name of the product can be used to search first, and then the code can also be tried, or both can be searched together.

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

Asia

1. India: India's data is divided into India's whole port data and Mumbai's separate data. There were no export companies in India before. Now the latest data are basically available. India Data Importer Company carries company information and contact information.

2. Vietnam: The company and product description are in Vietnamese (but some of them will be in English, which can be searched). Kazak and Uzbek are described in Russian, while Korean is described in Korean, with contact information (Korean data has not been updated after 14 years, and Korean customs data is no longer open to the public). The above countries can first use the code to query, copy the product description results or enter the product description in the appropriate language.

3. Pakistan: (Now the new bill of lading with price). 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. Therefore, you can search with code first.

South America

The product description of South American countries is mostly in Spanish, while that of Brazil is in English. It is suggested to use the customs code to search at first, and then use the Spanish or Portuguese name of the product. Colombia, Chile, with customer contact information.

Africa: (Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia)

They are all searched in code or English, and African countries are basically opened 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 re-accurate the search.

At present, many countries (the United States, India, Vietnam and more than 20) 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 of many European countries. Then we can check the purchasing companies/buyers in Europe 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.

As for transit data and statistics: when using the customs data platform, these two data are very weak for our foreign traders. There is no purchaser or supplier in the field content, only trend price analysis. In short, we should pay attention to and master these in the process of developing customers using the customs data platform.