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PIERS TI™ (Trade Intelligence) |
Anytime, anywhere Web access — with sophisticated search and report-generation capabilities — to PIERS U.S. import and export data, from the latest data available (government-authorized for release two weeks after filing) to up to 36 months of historical data.
Sources: This is information gathered by PIERS directly from the bills of lading and manifests filed both manually and through the U.S. Customs Automated Manifest System (AMS). PIERS adds value by auditing, standardizing and validating the data, and by assigning harmonized tariff codes to all manifest commodity descriptions.
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Features:
PIERS TI is a three-step application that makes it easy to Search the PIERS database, view and organize your Results, and generate a variety of Reports.
Step 1: Select Search criteria.
Search up to 12 months and retrieve up to 99,000 records at a time. Save search and report formats for easy periodic updating and comparison.
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Basic search criteria: Find the basic who, what, when, and where of U.S. trade with the world. PIERS TI Smart Fields automatically hunt for search terms through multiple relevant fields to capture more data.
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Advanced search criteria: Conduct more detailed searches, such as shipments by bill of lading number, carrier, or twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) count. Or use Smart Fields to search across multiple fields for a key term – a company name, for example.
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Miscellaneous search criteria: Search the database by specialized categories, such as the estimated value of the cargo.
Step 2: Organize Results.
View and organize your search results in several ways:
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Select from a range of field combinations to view your results.
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Sort results numerically or alphabetically.
- Mark or unmark records to include in or remove from Reports.
Step 3: Generate Reports.
Reports can be displayed and printed in PDF format, and/or downloaded (up to 20,000 results per search) directly into MS Excel* spreadsheets. Select among a choice of five basic types of reports (offering more than 20 possible report options in all):
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Detail Reports provide a complete picture of an import or export transaction — supplying all the details on individual bills of lading, including identifying information of the parties involved in the trade, shipment detail, and detailed commodity information.
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Profile Reports survey the activities of the parties to a trade: the foreign shipper (the supplier), the consignee (importer), or the notify party — and reveal what, how much and with whom they are trading. U.S. export data includes profile reports of the U.S. shippers, the commodities and destination countries in U.S. export trade.
- Summary Reports aggregate transactions by weight, TEUs and shipments, enabling users to review summaries by specific criteria, such as foreign shippers or U.S. exporters, commodities and trading countries.
- Ranking Reports list the top foreign shippers (suppliers), U.S. shippers (exporters), U.S. consignees (importers), commodities or countries – with graphs making the information accessible at a glance.
- Trending Reports track monthly trends in U.S. export trade by country, commodity or U.S. exporter.
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Use this data:
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Identify & qualify new suppliers: Search by harmonized tariff code, commodity description, geographic location; sort by volume, estimated value, level of activity.
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Find new customers: Look up consignees or notify parties; search by commodity, product, brand; follow purchasing patterns to spot importers of the products you sell.
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Detect emerging market demand: See where the need for products like yours is rising — or being met by competitors.
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Measure market share: Rank sellers by activity, volumes, estimated values; identify buyers’ mainstay suppliers.
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Monitor the competition: Weekly updates keep you on top of your industry’s or sector’s waterborne commerce.
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Protect your intellectual property and brand equity: See that your branded products get to the markets they were meant for (and detect when they’ve been diverted or counterfeited).
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Subscription Information:
An annual subscription to PIERS TI provides unlimited access via the Web to PIERS U.S. import data, U.S. export data, or both, from the current release to as far back as 36 months.
* Microsoft Excel is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
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