What anyone can learn about an importer from a free website, who uses it, and how protection quietly lapses.
We open a free trade platform, type one company name, and narrate what appears: the mill, the port, the monthly cadence, the new product code. Then we ask who else is looking.
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The supplier-poaching playbook is not a rumor. The people who built the tools describe it on podcasts and in blog posts. Here it is in their words, and here is who has already opted out.
Customs seized more counterfeit goods in fiscal 2025 than in the previous three years combined. Stanley, YETI, Crocs and Lululemon all ended up in court. Here is what the cases have in common.
Invoice fraud cost American businesses more than $3 billion last year. The biggest case in history worked for one reason: the supplier being impersonated was genuine.
Launches, backlogs and earnings all read straight off the shipping record. Four companies, four years, one public table.
Researchers, regulators, whistleblowers and the company across the street all work from the same public table. A tour of who is reading, and what they have done with it.
A generation of creators built audiences by revealing where famous brands are made. The reveals start with a public shipping record, and the brands would rather they did not.
We open a free trade platform, type one company name, and narrate what appears.
An apparel importer with two entities and eleven names. What was public, what we did, what changed.
The platform map, the anatomy of a company page, the four readers, and how protection lapses. Free, as a PDF.
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