Collector's Edition! A list of essential tools for foreign trade professionals

2025-02-17 Publish

If you want to do your work well, you must first sharpen your tools! As an efficient foreign trade person, how can you not have a few convenient tools? Share some practical foreign trade tools and websites.

Customs Data Query Tool

1. https://www.cnabke.com

Global customs data query can quickly and intelligently filter out the contact information of more than 200 million executives and decision makers, including email, phone, social media, etc., and can also simultaneously display company yellow pages, product images and websites.

2.‍https://comtrade.un.org/data/‍

The United Nations provides a free statistical tool for import and export of more than 200 customs countries. You can select query conditions according to your needs.

3.http://43.248.49.97/

The General Administration of Customs’ customs statistics online query platform allows you to select different query conditions according to your needs and find the data you want.

Foreign trade email verification and reverse checking tools

1.http://bbs.fobshanghai.com/checkemail.html

A lazy tool for reverse checking emails.

2.https://hunter.io/email-verifier

Verify the validity of the email address.

3. https://verify-email.org

The verification tool actually connects to the mail server and checks whether the mailbox exists.

4.https://www.verifyemailaddress.org

Enter an email address to verify its existence.

5. https://neverbounce.com/

Provides real-time email verification and email cleaning services.

Foreign trade mail tracking tool

1. http://www.ifread.com

When the customer receives the email, they will receive a read receipt.

2. http://www.whoreadme.com

You can track whether the email has been read, and receive notifications when the email attachments are downloaded.

3.http://www.didtheyreadit.com

Automatically notify you when your emails are opened and how long they took to open.

Foreign trade customer email search tool

1.https://connect.clearbit.com

It is free to access, with a limit of 100 free searches per month.

2. https://hunter.io

Users can search 100 email addresses per month for free.

3.https://crozdesk.com/software/toofr

First time users have 30 free searches to try.

4.https://github.com/findanyemail

The free search limit is 100 times per month.

5. https://discover.ly

Free to use, aggregates all social information about a potential customer across Gmail, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Foreign trade customer information query tool

1.http://js.gsxt.gov.cn/index.html

The National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System allows you to view enterprises in any region of the country and query their basic information.

2.https://www.icris.cr.gov.hk/csci/

China Hong Kong Company Registration Comprehensive Information Query System

3. http://gcis.nat.gov.tw

Department of Commerce, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan

4. https://www.dnb.com

Dun & Bradstreet in the United States can provide real-time information on a company’s financing status, credit record, etc.

5.https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) can use the EDGAR search tool to research a company's operations and financial information.

6.http://www.stat.go.jp/index.html

You can query relevant matters of companies across Japan, including business operations, one year's operating income and expenditure, etc.

7.https://www.acra.gov.sg/home

ACRA is the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority of Singapore. It is the national regulator for corporate entities and public accounting in Singapore. All new business registrations need to be done through ACRA.

8. http://abr.business.gov.au

Australian Trade and Industry official website.

9.https://companies-register.companiesoffice.govt.nz/

New Zealand Companies Registry, you can query all New Zealand company registration information (such as registration time, registered address, etc.) online.

10. http://www.mca.gov.in

Home Page >> DATA & REPORTS >> Company Statistics, you can check the company information in India and abroad.

11.http://www.firmenwissen.de/index.html

You can query the basic information of German companies and use credit reports to reduce risks and assess the solvency of business partners.

12. https://www.gov.uk

Homepage>>Business and self-employed, you can check the relevant information of British companies

13.https://www.standardandpoors.com/en_US/web/guest/home

A world-renowned financial analysis agency and authoritative credit rating organization. It can check banks (for example, when a foreign customer opens a letter of credit, it can check the credit status of the issuing bank), enterprises, insurance and financial institutions, etc.

14.http://www.ccopyright.com.cn

China Copyright Protection Center - Copyright Query

15. http://www.uspto.gov

To search for U.S. patents and trademarks, go to the patent search page on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website (Patents>>Search for Patents)

16. http://www.irs.gov

US IRS tax information

17.https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/

EU Trademark Search

18. https://www.cods.org.cn

National Organization Code Management Center, this platform can provide basic information of enterprises, individual industrial and commercial households, institutions, government agencies, social organizations and other organizations registered in accordance with the law in my country.

Keyword search and analysis tools

1.http://translate.google.com/globalmarketfinder/g/index.html Google Global Market Insights provides data from global Internet searches.

2. https://www.ispionage.com

You can view competitors’ bidding keywords, ads, and landing pages in detail.

3. https://www.keywordeye.com

High conversion keyword mining tool, mining keywords from Google homepage, most viewed and most commented YouTube pages, and Q&A pages.

Foreign trade transportation query tool

1. Ocean freight price trend query
‍fbx.freightos.com/‍

2. Freight search on China Shipping Network
ship.shippingchina.com/

3. UPS Package Tracking
ups.com/WebTracking/tra

4. Fedex
fedex.com/cn/

Foreign trade customs inquiry tool