Trade data to find and verify real buyers using shipment evidence.
Turn import export data into a shortlist of importers already buying your product. Compare recurrence, shipment scale and available price context before you approach them.
Customs and bill-of-lading evidence · coverage reported by query
From product to verified buyer.
Search a market, inspect the evidence and focus on counterparties with visible buying activity.
- 01 · Define
Choose a market
Start with your product, HS code and destination.
- 02 · Find
Surface importers
Identify companies visible in relevant shipment records.
- 03 · Verify
Read the evidence
Review recurrence, value, source and coverage.
- 04 · Act
Prioritize buyers
Build a shortlist and monitor meaningful changes.
See the evidence before you contact a buyer.
Volume shows scale. Recurrence shows which importers keep buying. Price trends add commercial context. Use all three — and the coverage behind them — before outreach.
Illustrative example · coffee · HS 0901 · US
Buyer recurrence
Importers ranked by observed recurrence
Separate regular importers from one-time activity. Use purchasing frequency to decide where deeper research should begin.
- Buys every month
- 118
- Buys most months
- 327
- Buys occasionally
- 241
- Bought once
- 263
949 sample importers ranked · review coverage before interpreting the total
Shipment evidence
Why this buyer appears on the shortlist
Inspect activity, value, period and source. Shipment facts remain attached to the company rather than becoming an unexplained score.
- 5,185
- shipments
- 43
- active months
- $1.1B
- declared value
- 0901
- HS heading
Illustrative source: reported US customs record · example period only
Price context
Monthly price context for the selected lane
Review median and quartile movement. Use observed price-per-kilogram movement as context, not as a guaranteed quotation.
44 illustrative monthly observations · confirm unit, lane and coverage in the live result
Market signals
Changes worth reviewing
Watch entrants, lapses, price and volume. Monitor what changed instead of repeating the same market search.
- New3 visible importers entered the lane this month
- Lapsed1 buyer showed no recent activity after 14 months
- PriceIllustrative median moved 8.9% month over month
- VolumeIllustrative shipments moved 12% quarter over quarter
Signals are prompts for review; they do not predict a buyer’s next order
Confirm they buy a relevant product
Use the product description and HS heading to discover candidates, then inspect the shipment details. A broad category may include different grades, materials or uses, so confirm that the visible activity relates to your actual offer.
Check whether you can serve the pattern
Compare shipment scale, origins, supplier concentration and available price context with your capacity and route. Validate freight, Incoterms, duties and product differences before treating a declared value as a useful quotation benchmark.
This first filter removes weak market matches before your team spends time verifying individual companies.
Look for repeated, recent activity
Compare shipment count with active months and recent dates. A large historical total may hide a buyer that stopped importing, while smaller recurring shipments can justify deeper research. Recurrence helps prioritize; it does not guarantee another order.
Read the coverage before concluding
Check the source, reporting period and coverage status. Covered data supports a stronger conclusion than a partial feed. If coverage is unavailable, report that the lane cannot be observed — not that the company does not trade.
The result is a prioritized research list, not an automatic sales verdict. Verify the legal entity and current business context before outreach.
Know what shipment data can — and cannot — tell you.
Customs and bill-of-lading data can reveal useful buying behavior, but the responsible conclusion depends on the source and coverage available for the selected lane.
Use trade data to reduce uncertainty
When the records cover the market and period you need, they can help you replace an unqualified directory list with observable commercial evidence.
- Identify importers associated with a product or HS code.
- Compare shipment frequency, active months and reported scale.
- See visible origins, suppliers and trade routes.
- Monitor new entrants, lapsed activity and market movement.
Keep human verification in the decision
A shipment record is evidence of reported activity. It is not proof of current purchase intent, product fit, creditworthiness or willingness to change suppliers.
- Do not treat missing records as proof that no trade occurred.
- Do not assume declared values equal a directly comparable quote.
- Confirm the legal entity, website and relevant contact.
- Review sanctions, duties and compliance before engagement.
Make a better buyer decision at each step.
Choose what you need to do next, then follow the evidence to a practical outcome.
Build a shortlist of active importers
Start with companies whose visible shipment activity matches your product and target market.
Build the shortlist →Check the evidence before trusting the result
Read the country, period, source and coverage so missing data does not become a false conclusion.
Check the coverage →Focus research on buyers worth your time
Compare recurrence, scale and market movement to decide which companies need deeper research.
Compare the buyers →Prepare outreach with a reason to contact them
Use bill-of-lading patterns and supplier changes to make your approach more relevant.
Read the buyer signals →Use the web app yourself — or carry the same evidence into your agent.
Start with the guided EximAgent experience, or connect a coding agent to the supported CLI when the research needs to continue inside your own workflow.
Research in the web app
Enter the product, HS code and target market. Review buyer recurrence, shipment evidence, price context and coverage before building the shortlist.
Use structured trade-data commands
The CLI exposes buyer recurrence, price trends, shipment evidence and other trade workflows to Codex, Claude Code and compatible coding agents.
Read https://cli.eximagent.ai/skill and follow the instructions.Start with the HS heading you sell.
Start with one covered HS heading instead of paying for an entire data catalogue. Coverage is checked for the selected product and market.
Product Exporter
$149/ month
Starter ($50) plus Market Desk ($99) for one covered HS4 heading.
- 500 monthly credits
- Full market depth and shipment records
- Buyer and supplier tables with CSV export
Market Pulse
$29/ month per HS heading
- Monthly market brief
- Buyer and price-change alerts
- Top buyers ranked by recurrence
- No shipment-record export or API access
Market Desk
$99/ month with paid Core
Or $150 per month on its own.
- Full shipment records
- Buyer and supplier trade fingerprints
- Delivered analytics and partner checks
- In-scope API access for your agent
Import export data is reported trade information describing shipments across markets. Depending on the source, a record may include product classification, importer or exporter, origin, destination, date, quantity, weight and declared value.
EximAgent uses customs and bill-of-lading shipment records alongside other trade sources. Every shipment query reports its coverage so you can judge the result.
HS 2022 contains 1,228 four-digit headings and 5,612 six-digit subheadings. National schedules can extend the codes beyond six digits.
No. It may reflect partial or unavailable coverage. Read the query’s coverage status before drawing a conclusion.
Yes. You can work in the web app or use the CLI with an agent that supports structured commands.
No. The web app provides a guided workflow. The CLI is for teams that want a coding agent to query the same trade evidence through structured commands.
EximAgent connects shipment evidence to a working sequence: define the product and market, compare buyer behavior, verify coverage, research the company and prepare the next action. The web app and CLI are two interfaces to that workflow.
Start with your product and target market.
Find visible importers and inspect the shipment evidence behind the shortlist.