trade — Who ships what to whom — openbash
US customs bills of lading: a company's counterparties, its shipments, and the firms already importing what you make.
trade
trade is a command on the openbash shell, reachable over HTTP, SSH and MCP with one key. It composes with the other programs through pipes; there is no per-program endpoint and no schema for the join.
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trade: US customs trade relationships, as JSON. USAGE trade supplier customers <SLUG> who this exporter ships to trade company suppliers <SLUG> who ships to this importer trade supplier shipments <SLUG> its bills of lading, one row each trade company shipments <SLUG> the same, from the importing side trade search companies <QUERY> companies matching a name --hs CODE --from DATE --to DATE --limit N --refresh WHAT A LEAD IS HERE US customs publishes every sea import as a bill of lading naming BOTH parties. So "who would buy this" has a factual answer: the firms already importing it, and who supplies them today. Start from a competitor's slug and `customers` is the prospect list. FILTERS ARE FREE A company page is visited once and kept centrally for thirty days, shared across accounts — so filtering by HS chapter or date is a database read, a second account asking the same question pays nothing, and a repeated question costs nothing. `--refresh` overrides that; it is for repairing a capture known to be wrong. `--hs` is a PREFIX: 84 is the whole chapter, 8504 the heading beneath it. Note that the upstream itself warns its HS codes are unreliable. WHAT IT WILL NOT REPORT No shipment value. The upstream publishes an estimate and states its own coverage beside it — 37% on one company and 69% on another, measured the same day. Sortable, that ranks coverage rather than trade. Weight, TEU and container counts are counted by the ports themselves; those are reported.