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Plug Live Trade Data
Directly Into Your Systems.

A developer-first API that streams verified customs records, shipment intelligence, and buyer–supplier data into your applications, dashboards, and enterprise platforms — in real time.

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trade-api-explorer.js
Request Response Python
const response = await fetch( "https://api.tradedata.io/v1/shipments", { method: "GET", headers: { "X-API-Key": "dvk_live_••••••••", "Content-Type": "application/json" }, params: { "country": "IN", "hs_code": "3004.90", "from_date": "2024-01-01", "limit": 50 } } );
{ "status": "200 OK", "total_records": 14820, "data": [ { "importer": "Global Pharma Ltd.", "exporter": "MedCore China Co.", "hs_code": "3004.90", "quantity": 4800, "value_usd": 482000, "port": "NHAVA SHEVA", "date": "2024-03-14" } ] }
import requests client = requests.Session() client.headers.update({ "X-API-Key": "dvk_live_••••••••" }) data = client.get( "/v1/shipments", params={ "country": "US", "hs_code": "8471.30", "limit": 100 } ).json() print(f"Found: {data['total_records']}")
LIVE ENDPOINTS
GET/v1/shipments GET/v1/buyers GET/v1/suppliers POST/v1/query GET/v1/hs-codes
Built for 🏗️ SaaS Platforms 📊 BI & Analytics Tools 🏦 Fintech & Banks 🔗 ERP & CRM Systems 🛡️ Risk & Compliance 🚢 Logistics Platforms 🔬 Research Institutions

The Challenge

Your Product Deserves Better
Than Fragmented Trade Data.

Building on unreliable, stale, or unstructured trade data creates compounding problems for your platform and your users. Here's what most teams run into:

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No Reliable Data Pipeline

Most trade data sources offer bulk files or manual downloads — not structured APIs. Building a data pipeline from scratch takes months of engineering time and still results in inconsistent, poorly labelled fields.

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Stale Data That Misleads Decisions

Relying on monthly or quarterly trade datasets means your application is always running on outdated intelligence. In fast-moving markets, even week-old data can lead to costly sourcing or risk misjudgements.

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Incompatible Formats Across Sources

Customs data, bill of lading records, and statistical trade data come in completely different schemas, encodings, and languages — making it nearly impossible to build a unified view without heavy pre-processing.

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Coverage Gaps at Critical Markets

Existing trade data providers often have deep coverage in a handful of economies but critical gaps in Southeast Asia, Africa, and emerging markets — exactly where your users need intelligence the most.

🏛️ Customs Authorities 200+ countries
→
⚙️ Data Pipeline Cleaned & Normalised
📄 Bill of Lading Vessel · Container
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🔒 Secure API Layer Auth · Encryption
📊 Gov. Statistics Macro Trade Flows
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🚀 Your Application Real-time · Scalable
Output Formats
JSON XML CSV Webhooks

What It Is

A Single API Endpoint for the World's Trade Intelligence

The Trade Data API is a RESTful interface that gives your application programmatic access to real-time and historical import–export records sourced from customs authorities, shipping manifests, and government statistical agencies across 200+ countries.

Purpose-built for development teams, data science pipelines, and enterprise integrations — it eliminates the need to manage raw data ingestion, normalisation, or refresh schedules. You query. We deliver.

  • REST API with JSON, XML, or CSV response formats
  • Filterable by country, HS code, port, date range, and company
  • Shipment-level and aggregated statistical endpoints
  • Webhook support for scheduled or event-triggered delivery
  • Secure authentication with API key and OAuth 2.0 options
  • Custom field mapping and white-label delivery available

API Capabilities

Every Endpoint Built for Real Business Logic

Six core API modules, each precision-engineered to power a different dimension of global trade intelligence in your product.

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Real-Time Shipment API

Query live and historical shipment records across 200+ countries. Filter by HS code, origin port, destination, importer, exporter, or date range with millisecond-level API response times.

Power live trade search and market intelligence dashboards with fresh customs data.
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Buyer & Supplier Lookup

Resolve verified company profiles from shipment records — including trade history, volume trends, active product categories, and port preferences — all accessible via a single API call.

Enrich your CRM, sourcing tool, or procurement platform with verified counterparty data.
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HS Code Intelligence Endpoint

Look up, classify, and analyse Harmonized System codes with mapped product descriptions, tariff references, and trade volume data — available across multiple classification systems and country-specific codes.

Add instant product classification and tariff intelligence to any trade or compliance workflow.
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Webhook & Streaming Delivery

Subscribe to push-based delivery for new shipment events, competitor activity alerts, or country-specific trade triggers. Eliminate polling entirely and receive data the moment it's available.

Build event-driven trade intelligence systems without managing complex data ingestion pipelines.
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Custom Field Mapping & Formats

Define your own response schema, rename fields to match your internal data model, and choose your preferred delivery format — JSON, XML, or CSV — all configurable at the account level without code changes.

Integrate seamlessly into your existing data architecture without transformation layers.
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Trade Statistics & Trend API

Access official aggregated trade flow data — monthly and annual import/export values, country-to-country volumes, product-level trend lines, and trade balance indicators — ideal for macro analytics and reporting.

Power executive dashboards, market entry reports, and economic research with verified macro data.

Integration Process

From API Key to Production — in 4 Steps

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Get Your API Key

Request access, define your required endpoints, countries, and data fields. Your secure API key is provisioned within 24 hours.

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Connect & Configure

Integrate via REST with any language — Node.js, Python, PHP, Java. Use our sandbox environment to test before going live.

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Query & Stream Data

Send requests against any of our endpoints. Filter by country, HS code, company, or port. Parse structured JSON or CSV responses instantly.

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Scale & Automate

Enable webhooks for event-driven updates. Increase API rate limits as your usage grows. Add new country modules without re-integration.

Use Cases

What Teams Are Building With the API

From trade intelligence SaaS platforms to risk assessment engines, the API powers real-world products that require live, structured global trade data.

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Trade Intelligence Platforms

SaaS companies building buyer-supplier discovery tools, market intelligence dashboards, or competitor tracking platforms use the API to power their core data layer — without building or maintaining a customs data pipeline.

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Banks & Financial Institutions

Trade finance teams integrate shipment-level data to verify letter of credit transactions, assess counterparty risk, and monitor borrower import–export activity against loan covenants — all in real time.

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Compliance & Risk Engines

Compliance platforms use the API to screen shipments against sanctioned entities, flag high-risk trade corridors, and detect unusual import/export patterns that may indicate fraud, smuggling, or sanctions evasion.

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Freight & Logistics Software

Logistics platforms embed the API to provide customers with live cargo tracking context, port congestion intelligence, and lane-level volume trend data — directly inside their existing freight management workflows.

200+
Countries Available
via API Endpoints
99.9%
API Uptime SLA
Across All Endpoints
<200ms
Median API Response
Time Under Load
4
Output Formats —
JSON, XML, CSV, Webhooks

Start Streaming Verified Trade Data
Into Your Product Today.

Your first API call can be live in under an hour. Tell us your use case and we'll provision the right endpoints, data fields, and output format — configured for your workflow from day one.

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No long-term contracts · Sandbox access available · Custom SLAs on request

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Technical and commercial questions, answered clearly.

The Trade Data API is a standard REST API and can be integrated with any language or framework that supports HTTP requests — including Node.js, Python, Java, PHP, Ruby, Go, and .NET. We provide code samples in JavaScript, Python, and cURL. Sandbox credentials are available for testing before going live.
Data freshness depends on the source country. For high-volume markets such as the USA, India, and major Southeast Asian economies, customs data is refreshed daily. For other markets, updates occur weekly or monthly based on the publication schedule of the relevant customs authority. Our documentation specifies the refresh cadence per country endpoint.
Yes. Field selection is configurable at the query level using a standard fields parameter. You can also request a custom schema mapping at the account level — where fields are renamed, transformed, or restructured to match your internal data model — at no additional engineering cost on our end.
All API requests are authenticated using a secure API key passed in the request header. OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow is available for enterprise accounts requiring role-based access control. All connections are enforced over HTTPS/TLS 1.2+. IP whitelisting is available as an additional security layer on enterprise plans.
Yes. Every API account includes access to a sandbox environment pre-loaded with representative sample records across multiple countries and HS codes. Sandbox responses mirror the exact schema and format of production data, allowing your team to build and test integrations before switching to live credentials.
Offline Trade Data is delivered as pre-built Excel or CSV files — best suited for analysts, researchers, and teams who need bulk historical records without development resources. The Trade Data API provides programmatic, on-demand access for software applications, automated pipelines, and products where data must be queried, filtered, and rendered dynamically. Both share the same underlying dataset — the interface is the difference.

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