Customs import declarations from Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Panama and Costa Rica, where national rules allow publication.
What's included
Declaration-level import records with date, national tariff-line HS code, declared FOB value in US dollars, quantity and unit, country of origin, customs office and, where the source publishes it, the importer name. Each delivery carries a country column and a source manifest listing the official publisher, the update lag and whether party names are present for that country.
How buyers use it
- Benchmark import prices for a product across several countries
- Discover importers and distributors before entering a new market
- Track a competitor's import volumes and origins month by month
- Size demand for a product category by country
Coverage and methodology
Records come from files published by national customs authorities. They are parsed, normalized to one schema and converted to US dollars at the exchange rate stated in the declaration. Party names are present in some countries and absent or masked in others, which is why the importer field is labelled per country. Updates are monthly, about 30 days after the declaration month, and history starts in 2015 for most countries. Countries whose rules prohibit publishing named shipment data are not included.