Value chains are public record.

Every commercial maritime import into the US is filed with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as a bill of lading — a public record naming the importer, the supplier, and the goods. We analyze those import records for your company and your named competitors and deliver the answer as a finished report: who they buy from, in which countries, and what changed.

From our data provider, ABRAMS world trade wiki — a global trade-data platform holding roughly 600 million shipment records from 10 million companies, built from publicly available government sources in around 193 countries. For US reports that means US Customs (CBP) bill of lading filings: every commercial maritime import into the United States, consolidated and cleaned so one importer's record reads as a single supply chain.

Yes. Governments and public institutions disclose trade data under freedom-of-information laws — the same raw records are available to anyone. Our data provider, ABRAMS world trade wiki, aggregates and standardizes them; a report never uses proprietary, internal, or confidential information about any company it names.

This is the core of the report. A peer-overlap analysis screens every supplier in your competitors' import records, filters out logistics noise, and produces a vetted list of candidates missing from your portfolio — each validated by how many peers use them and at what volume.

Those are self-serve trade-data search tools: you get a login and run the queries yourself. We deliver finished competitive intelligence — your true market rank, a diagnosis of every supplier relationship, your competitors' supply chains, and a vetted alternative-supplier list — as an analyst-built report. No seat license, no query tool to learn, no analyst hours on your side.

Accurate enough to rank importers and detect supplier moves, with known limits. Records pass a multi-stage validation pipeline at our data provider — deduplication, plausibility checks, and company-name consolidation (“Ltd.” vs “Limited”) — and we audit every match for your company manually on top. US filings publish with a 30-to-60-day lag, so the newest month is underrepresented; every report states this openly.

Depending on the national source, the underlying databases update daily, monthly, or quarterly. On the retainer, your report is refreshed every quarter: data window rolled forward, every trend and risk tag recalculated, and supplier moves since the last edition flagged.

Transaction values and margins, air-freight shipments, shipments filed under masked names, and purely domestic activity — trade data covers cross-border shipments only. Every report lists exactly what is and isn't visible, so you know the boundaries of the data before you act on it.

Yes. The shipping record is symmetric — anyone can be a subject. The firms that move first are the ones who see the board before their competitors do.

Yes. Request a free sample above and we'll email a full sanitized example immediately — the same depth and structure as a paid report, with company names redacted.