Global trade data with the seams shown, not a number on a brochure.
Every trade data vendor advertises one big country count. Here is how ours is actually built: 43 customs feeds we license directly (shipment-level records straight from national customs declarations) plus 184 additional countries derived through mirror trade. Together, that is global visibility you can trace back to an official record — and below, the six questions that expose any provider in one demo call. Including us.
How global trade data is really assembled.
No provider on earth licenses every country’s customs feed. Some markets simply don’t publish shipment-level records. What separates providers is whether they tell you which layer each answer comes from. We always do.
Direct customs feeds
Shipment-level records
- Official customs declarations, licensed from partner databases.
- Row-level detail: date, HS code, port, quantity, declared value.
- Named buyers and named suppliers in 38 of the 43 markets.
- Fresh filings weekly — some markets daily — as partner customs feeds push new records.
Mirror-derived countries
Reconstructed from partner flows
- When a country doesn’t publish its feed, its trade still appears in everyone else’s.
- We read every export declaration shipped INTO that market to reconstruct its imports.
- Example: see who Ghana buys from by reading each country that exports to Ghana.
- Always labeled as mirror-derived, never passed off as a direct feed.
Both layers are trade data; only one of them can be traced to a single declaration. The shipment-level layer is what you build call lists, price benchmarks and supplier vetting from. The mirror layer sizes markets and maps lanes. Any vendor folding the two into one unexplained country count is hoping you won’t ask which is which.
Six questions that expose any trade data provider.
Ask these on the demo call. We’ve put our own answers next to each one, because a checklist you’re afraid of is a confession.
01Does it name the buyer?
Country totals can’t be called. Ask which markets carry named importers and suppliers, and expect a straight number. Ours: 38 of 43 direct feeds.
02Can every figure be traced to a customs record?
If a number can’t point back to the declaration it came from, it’s an estimate wearing a suit. Traceability is the line between customs-grade and scraped.
03Is direct coverage separated from derived coverage?
Every vendor blends licensed feeds with mirror derivation. The honest ones label which is which on every answer. Walk away from a single unexplained country count.
04Is the pricing published?
A provider that hides pricing behind “contact sales” is planning to price you by your desperation. Ours is on the site: from $1,100 for 6 months to $1,800 for the year.
05Will they demo on YOUR data?
A canned walkthrough proves the software runs. A live search on your HS code and markets proves the data covers you. Accept nothing less before paying.
06How often does it refresh, per surface?
A buyer who imported monthly can go quiet in 90 days. Regularly refreshed feeds with a visible refresh date per surface keep your call list warm, not archival.
One dataset. Six jobs teams actually hire it for.
Find the buyers already buying
Search who imported your HS code this quarter — named importers with ports, quantities and declared prices — and build a call list out of real demand.
Explore import dataRead the outbound ledger
Your competitors’ export declarations: who they ship to, how often, at what declared FOB. Benchmark before you quote.
Explore export dataWork the record itself
Every conclusion traces to one artifact: the customs shipment record, with buyer, supplier, HS code, port, date, quantity and value.
See what a record holdsVet a supplier before the deposit
Read a factory’s real export history — capacity, cadence, destinations, price band — instead of trusting a profile page.
Explore supplier dataCheck a buyer is real
Before you extend terms or ship on credit: does this company actually import, at what volume, from how many suppliers, and for how long?
Explore buyer dataSee the market move
The layer above the records: which lanes are growing, which buyers switched suppliers, where prices are drifting quarter over quarter.
Explore trade intelligenceCustoms-grade only
Official customs declarations, never scraped marketplaces dressed up as trade intelligence. Every figure can defend itself.
Fresh filings weekly
Partner customs feeds push fresh records weekly for most markets, daily for some. Global trade data is a live feed of demand, not an annual statistical yearbook.
Named companies
38 of our 43 direct markets carry named buyers and suppliers: real companies you can contact, not “Importer #4837”.
Test the foundations free, before any demo.
The reference layers under our trade data are open to everyone: all 5,612 WCO codes in the HS Code Directory, plain-language lookup in the HS Classifier, duty estimates in the Landed Cost Calculator, and 38,000+ restricted parties in Sanctions Screening.
Global trade data, asked and answered.
What is global trade data?
Global trade data is the record of goods crossing borders, assembled from the import and export declarations that companies file with national customs authorities. At shipment level it names the importer, the supplier, the HS code, the port, the date, the quantity and the declared value. EximDataX combines 43 directly licensed customs feeds with mirror-derived coverage of 184 additional countries.
How can data be "global" if no country publishes everything?
Through mirror trade. A country that never publishes its own customs feed still appears in everyone else’s: every shipment into that country is an export declaration somewhere else. By reading the export data of all partner countries, we reconstruct the imports of markets we don’t license directly, and we always label those results as mirror-derived.
What’s the difference between trade data and trade statistics?
Statistics are totals: country X exported $2B of Y last year. Trade data at shipment level is records: this company shipped this quantity to this named buyer at this declared value on this date. You cannot contact a total.
How do I choose a trade data provider?
Use the six questions on this page: named buyers (which markets, exactly), traceability to the customs record, direct versus derived coverage labeled, published pricing, a demo on your own data, and per-surface refresh dates. Any vendor who dodges two of the six is telling you something.
How current is the data?
Most markets refresh weekly and some refresh daily. Each surface in the platform shows its own refresh date, so you always know the vintage of the answer in front of you.
Is this scraped from B2B marketplaces?
No. EximDataX uses customs-grade sources only: official customs declarations from national feeds. Marketplace listings tell you who wants to appear in trade; customs records tell you who actually trades.
How much does global trade data cost, and how do I see mine?
Published openly: $1,100 for 6 months or $1,800 for 12 months of platform access, plus $299/month if you want a Trade Desk specialist to work the data for you. Book a 30-minute live demo and we run the platform on your HS code and target markets, on screen, for nothing. You can also test it yourself with a free 3-day account on our 2021 archive — genuine customs records from an earlier year; paid accounts show the most recent months. No credit card needed.
Explore the data
See what your buyers are buying.Then decide.
Everything we show you comes from official customs filings — records, not claims. 30 minutes. Your shipment. Your HS code. Real platform. If you don’t see something new about your market by the end of the call, we walk away. No follow-ups.