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Businesses with a global perspective use PIERS trade intelligence to:
- Find new suppliers, new markets and new business opportunities
- Benchmark performance against the competition
- Defend intellectual property against infringement and counterfeiting
- Support strategic decision-making
- Arbitrate trade disputes
- Understand international trade trends and forecasts
To see how commercial enterprises and government agencies have put PIERS to work for them, browse these customer applications stories:
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Attack of the Clones
The car may be exported, but its cloned VIN can stay behind to cover illegal traffic in stolen or salvaged cars — as Carfax found out with some help from PIERS intelligence. Read more
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Bright Outlook for Ag Exports
Ocean transport rates make the Pacific Rim the market of choice for U.S. ag exports. The USDA uses PIERS data to report on ocean transport trends. Read more
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Cleared for Take-Off
Most business initiatives fail because they're launched without an unbiased appraisal of market realities. PIERS can supply the hard facts about your markets and your competitors. Read more
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Details Count in a Tight Market
The chemical industry is experiencing a resurgence ... but with higher costs and heated competition, it's critical to keep close track on the marketplace - as Arkema Inc. does. Read more
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Detecting Dumping
PIERS makes it easier for Chattem Chemicals to monitor shipping for below-market-price imports ... and compile the evidence for antidumping claims. Read more
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Detecting Trademark Pirates
A California-based maker of color cosmetics had its trade name pirated; PIERS helped identify the culprit. Read more
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Discovering Cost-saving Opportunities
For PointTrade Services, Inc. an international trade and customs services provider and consultancy, PIERS Trade Profiles is a tool for identifying and estimating savings for client importers. Read more
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Discovering a Global Dimension
One bank identified untapped demand for its lucrative trade financing products within its existing customer base with the help of PIERS import-export trade data. Read more
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A Few Good Sources
The Army Corps of Engineers relies on a few good sources for the information that guides its planning, including the U.S. Census, Customs, and PIERS. Read more
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Fixing Liability
PIERS historical data can supply the evidence needed in asbestos cases where the claim of injury is made years — or decades — after exposure. Read more
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Keeping up as Customers Go Global
Commercial services providers use Trade Profiles to keep up with — or, better yet, anticipate — the needs of their customers as they move into world markets. Read more
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Measuring New Markets
A Gulf Coast barge company turned to PIERS for the hard data that will test the feasibility of their business model. Read more
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Opening the Door to Sales
Trade Profiles supports sales tactics and marketing strategy at Lynden International, providers of freight transport and logistics services. Read more
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Port of San Diego Comes Back to PIERS
The Port of San Diego tried an alternate provider of trade data only to find critical details missing. Read more
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Protecting MPEG Patents
Audio MPEG, Inc., finds PIERS Trade Intelligence is an invaluable asset in its business of licensing patents in the consumer electronics industry. Read more
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Remote Sourcing
Is there any substitute for being there when it comes to finding and qualifying new sources for global supply chains? PIERS trade data supplies an alternative. Read more
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Sharper Focus for Product Marketing
LINPAC Materials Handling uses Trade Profiles to focus on companies in the industries — and shipping the volumes — its packaging solutions best serve. Read more
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Shortcut to Settlement
PIERS import data bolstered Zeta Espacial's claim that its U.S. distributor had not honored their exclusive agreement. Read more
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Sourcing Medical Products
An international distributor finds PIERS is “tremendous resource” for locating new vendors – and monitoring existing suppliers. Read more
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Tips from a PIERS Users’ Conference
A PIERS Users’ Conference included a panel of customers who discussed how they use commercial intelligence in their companies — Trans-i Technologies, Inc., and Dow. Read more
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Tracing Parallel Imports
Gray market goods undermine prices and tarnish trade names; PIERS helps food importer Khong Guan fight back. Read more
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Tricks of the Investigators Trade
The James Mintz Group specializes in "finding hidden business facts quickly, quietly, cost-effectively." Read more
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