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Xiaozhijun looked around. Almost everyone on the forum was asking how to use the customs data and where to find a good customs data website. Then the next group was full of advertising replies from data providers.

First of all, Xiao Zhijun is also one of the data suppliers. Many people don't understand what the customs data can do when they come to consult and buy data. How to select the data service in combination with themselves? Today, I will give you a brief analysis:

First of all, you need to understand what your company does, what kind of company it is (foreign trade company, factory or agency company), and the focus of data service selection for different companies is different. For example, foreign trade companies want to know domestic peers and foreign buyers; The factory just wants to find the agent and the raw material place, while the agent focuses on the company information of domestic import and export business, etc.... And then think about what products, positioning and target market. Then you can ask the data provider to buy data.

Secondly, there are roughly two types of customs data on the market. One is China's import and export data. The other is foreign import and export data. In China's import and export data, all enterprises that have done import and export transactions and those who have gone to the customs for filing have records. Each import and export information includes (quantity, time, amount), etc. There are eight HS and ten HS customs data on the market, but at present, the country only allows the sale of eight HS, Because the 10-digit HS customs data includes more content, ranging from the model and specification of the product. If this data falls into the hands of your competitors, your company's product secret information and trading habits are equally transparent, seriously disrupting the normal market competition; If you see that it is illegal to sell 10 products on the Internet... Generally, to buy China's import and export data, you need to provide the 8-digit HS product code of your products, whether you need to import or export (can not be provided at the same time), and then give you a market price. Here, the pricing of each service provider is basically the same. The more analyzed, the more collected, and the less analyzed, the less collected; Generally, there are online and offline transaction forms; This model mainly looks at the import and export information of Chinese domestic suppliers and purchasers, monitors the trading habits of rival enterprises, and then looks at the current market ranking and popularity of the product in general, and makes foreign trade market analysis. It is very effective to locate the product and market. Many people say that there is no foreign customer information, no! Because China's 8-digit customs data only has unilateral information, traders or agents, and no foreign customer information, so if you need foreign import and export data, you need to buy foreign import and export data.

The completeness of foreign data varies according to the degree of disclosure of each country. For example, the data of the United States is very complete, but the data of some small countries such as Europe, Germany, Italy and Southeast Asia are either not disclosed or incomplete. There are about 20 countries with data in the world, and the more complete data is not more than 10; If you want to buy these data, it is recommended that you shop around. Many data chambers will provide you with data information about countries that have no data on the market. It is basically the experts who do data in the industry who make secondary links to the import and export of several countries. For example, there is no data on the market of Poland, but there are data on the export of China, the United States, Canada and other state-owned countries to Poland. Then these data will be summarized into the import data of Poland, but not comprehensive, So be careful when purchasing. In the market, such data are presented in many forms. Many will say that the contact information of foreign purchasers and suppliers is provided. This should be careful, because the data of countries like the United States and Canada have no contact information at all. Only a few countries will have some, which are also lack of arms and legs, completeness and accuracy are not high, The contact information provided on the market is also found by various suppliers through searching the SNS universal mail search tool and so on (referring to various ways of foreign trade mail search), so the accuracy cannot be guaranteed 100%. Therefore, in view of the high labor costs and high prices, Xiao Zhijun has consulted several peers before, at least more than ten thousand, and there are also several platforms. To purchase such data, it is generally necessary to provide the product name in English, the data in what time period, the number of countries and other key information, for the above reasons. Foreign data is mainly provided to purchasers, or foreign suppliers. You can look at their purchasing and supply habits. It is worth mentioning that foreign data has bilateral information, that is, both suppliers and purchasers. If it is small and medium-sized, or a foreign trade company that has just started, it is recommended to buy foreign products, but it is necessary to identify whether the data suppliers and their supply chain are trustworthy.