OVERVIEW – India Export Import Trade Data

Stats & Compilation Process - Indian Export Import Trade Data


Indian Export Import Trade Data - access more then 80 Million records online !

InfodriveIndia collects, collates and standardizes more then 15 lakhs (1.5 Million) Export Shipping Bills and Import Bills of Entry every month from Indian Ports.

The data is collected, cleaned and converted in RDBMS Format ( Relation Data Base Management System) and stored in Microsoft SQL Server Database : India Export Import Trade Data.

Indian Export Import Trade Data covers Indian foreign trade with over 200 countries around the world and represents transactions of over 2,00,000 Indian Exporters Importers.

With Online data since January 1st, 2003, India Export Import Trade Data provides organizations complete access to current and historical trade data.

The number of Records collected from Indian Customs, Ports based on Bills of Entry and Invoices have now crossed over 8 Crores (80 Millions).

Archive data from 1998 onwards as well as bulk current data is also available CDs from InfodriveIndia Consulting Group.


Value Addition - Indian Export Import Trade Data


What Value Addition InfodriveIndia makes ?


Addition of Address , Email , Tel , Contact Person of Indian Companies.


Earlier the data contained Names but not complete address or contact information. Indian Govt has stopped release of Names in India Trade data since 2004. However sometimes ports to release data with names.

InfodriveIndia with the help of Indian Company profiles databases maintained by it, adds other important details like Address , Email , Tel , Contact Persons of Indian Companies wherever possible on best effort basis.

InfodriveIndia is also fighting a legal battle and lobbying with members of trade to secure release of Names under Freedom of Information Act as release of Names is very important for transparency and growth of Indian Foreign Trade.

You may send a Petition to concerned authorities at www.dailylistusers.org a Association of Indian Trade Data users to voice your opinion.


Addition of Indian Harmonized Code Descriptions


InfodriveIndia maintains a daily updated Indian Harmonized Code Database, with the help of this data InfodriveIndia Team adds the “Standard HS Description”.

In Indian Export Import Data the “Actual product description” and HS Code often varies and classification is often wrong, due to poor control at the time of submission of documents by Indian Exporters Importers and hence InfodriveIndia adds the Indian Harmonized Code Descriptions to highlight the anomalies.


Note :
We do not change or try to classify the HS Codes or actual descriptions.
This feature is not available online yet.


Addition of Indian Import Duty , Indian DEPB Rates , Duty Drawback Rates , HS Codes live Links.


InfodriveIndia maintains a daily updated and online Indian Import Duty, Duty Drawback, DEPB Rates and Indian Harmonized Code Database, and with the help of this data InfodriveIndia Team adds Live online links to see the corresponding rates in the data.

This completely reduces the need to “search” additional information as & when needed.

Note : This feature is not available online yet.


Addition of Indian Import Duty Rates.


InfodriveIndia calculates and adds “ Applicable Custom duty “ from the Indian Import Duty databases in Indian Import Data.

Since Indian Customs follows any General Exemptions and Notifications apart from prescribed rate of duty, “Applicable Custom Duty” could be different from “Actual Custom Duty” charged.

However it is seen that it is same in 90% cases.


Addition of Value in US Dollars


India data contains value in Indian Rupees and it is difficult to calculate the prices as the exchange rates prescribed by Indian Customs are different from market exchange rates.

To resolve this problem , InfodriveIndia converts the value in US Dollars as prescribed during the date of transaction by Indian Customs.


Time Lag - Indian Export Import Trade Data


The data is uploaded on a daily basis to provide customers data on near “real-time“ on best effort basis as there are still problems in getting timely data updates from Indian Govt authorities.

InfodriveIndia still manages to provide data with a time lag of 10 days to 20 days at the end of each month, compared to other sources like DGCIS and Ministry of Commerce which still take around 3 months to 6 months.


Authenticity, Accuracy , and Completeness - Indian Export Import Trade Data




Authenticity


InfodriveIndia does not tamper with the data. Data is 100% authentic and “as released” by Indian Govt.



Accuracy


Import Data has been noted to show sometimes problems in valuations and InfodriveIndia does takes up such issues with Govt Authorities.



Completeness


We do find that Data is not 100% complete. In Imports the coverage is better, around 90% to 95%, probably as Indian Govt gets Customs Duty from Imports.

In Exports the coverage is little less, probably around 85%.

The percentage of lost data varies time to time. It also depends from Port to Port. In Ports where  EDI systems are in place, coverage is better.

With planned computerization of all ports by Govt of India, we look forward to overcome such problems in future.


Medium of Delivery


InfodriveIndia delivers data Online and Offline in CDs.

• Online in Excel with a Excel Tool Bar.
• CDs in Excel with a Excel Tool Bar.
• InfodriveIndia Business Intelligence - Proprietary Data mining software.
• A very lightning fast software , it has 10 index, and 20 different formatted reports and utility to extract data in Excel with Tool Bar. Excel Tool Bar:- a Intuitive and user friendly tool, helps users utilize the power of Excel to use the data more effectively and easily.


Features – Online

• Downloads into Microsoft Excel with Excel Tool Bar
• Save Private Searches (Queries)
• Public Searches (Queries)
• Retrieve Old Downloads
• Timely data within a time lag of 10 to 20 days of a shipment clearing India Customs
• Online access from any part of World
• Support

Searchable Data Fields:

• HS Code
• Product Description
• Indian Company – Exporter or Importer
• International Port
• Country
• Indian Port
• Date - Clearance Date based on Indian Customs clearance
• Value in INR and US$
• Quantity
• Mode – Air or Sea
• Trade direction = Import or Export

Data fields


Export Data Fields

• Indian Harmonized Code
• Standard Harmonized Code Description
• Actual Product Description
• Indian Exporter Name, Address, City, Pin Code, State, Tel Nos, Email, contact person (Wherever available)
• Foreign Port
• Foreign Country
• Indian Port
• Date - Clearance Date based on Indian Customs clearance
• FOB Value in INR and US$
• Unit rate in INR and US$
• Quantity
• Unit of Quantity
• Mode – Air or Sea
• Online DEPB Rate Link
• Online Duty Drawback Rate Link.
• Online HS Code Link

Import Data Fields

• Indian Harmonized Code
• Standard Harmonized Code Description
• Actual Product Description
• Indian Importer Name, Address, City, Pin Code, State, Tel Nos, Email, contact person (Wherever available)
• Foreign Port
• Foreign Country
• Indian Port
• Date - Clearance Date based on Indian Customs clearance
• Assessable Value in INR and US$
• Unit rate in INR and US$
• Quantity
• Unit of Quantity
• Mode – Air or Sea
• Indian Import Duty – “Applicable Duty” Amount
• Online Indian Import Duty Rate Link
• Online HS Code Link

Ports Covered


Largest coverage of Ports in India – total 34 Ports




Ahmedabad ICD Bangalore Air Bangalore ICD Bombay Air Bombay Sea Calcutta Air Calcutta Sea Cochin Air Cochin Sea Delhi Air

Delhi PPG ICD Delhi TKD ICD Goa Goa Sea Haldia Hyderabad Air Hyderabad ICD Jaipur ICD JNPT Kandla

Ludhiana ICD Madras Air Madras Sea Mangalore Mangalore Sea Mulund ICD Nhava Sheva Sahar Air Cargo Trivendram Trivendram Air

Tuticorin Air Tuticorin Sea Vizag Air Vizag Sea




Comparison with Competition


Started by Rakesh Saraf , a Exporter himself, InfodriveIndia is the most innovative and technology driven company in India to provide practical solutions to International Trade Community.

InfodriveIndia is 11 year old market leader with over 10,000 clients all over the world. It has always outperformed even large Govt sources as well as private sources in all parameters.

Unfortunately there are many Fly by night operators in this Industry, causing serious decision making errors unknown to data users.




Parameters	InfodriveIndia	Competition
Background	11 Year old market Leader with over 10,000 clients all over world. Started by International Trade Professional.	Fly by night operators or Bureaucratic Govt Sources.
Data Sourcing	Direct from each port.	Sharing from private sources or from centralized Govt sources with incomplete and delayed data.
Data Availability	Typically within 7 to 20 days after end of each month.	Inconsistent due to above reason.
Data Accuracy	Exact, unabridged information from the Indian Ports.	Sharing of data, Recycled old Data with new date changes etc are rampant leading to discrepancies.
Coverage	Largest Collection of Data , even outperforming Govt Departments.	Poor, No attention to cover complete data.
Ports	All Ports which Release data are covered, other ports are relentlessly pursued to release.Legal Cases filed and Active Lobbying thru members of trade to improve data.Petition : DailyListAppeal.doc www.dailylistusers.org	Few Ports.
Value Addition	Tremendous Value AdditionLike addition of Address, Tel, Email, Contact Person, HS Description, Value in US$ Custom duty, Live links to DEPB, Drawback, Custom Duty and HS Classification	NA
Additional Support Databases	Online Repository of updated databases of Custom duty, Live links to DEPB, Drawback, Custom Duty and HS Classification, Notifications, entire Indian Foreign Trade laws.	NA
Media	Online with Excel Tool Bar Offline with Excel Tool Bar Business Intelligence Data mining Software Any RDBMS format.	Plain Excel sheets or text files.
Detailed Analysis	Available on InfodriveIndia Business Intelligence CD Software	NA
Trending	At any time by day, month, quarter, or year	NA
Historical Information	Online Data from January 1st, 2003 through the present.Offline from Jan-1998	NA
Customer Service	Responsive and dedicated to assisting customers	Limited
Pricing	FLAT FIXED RATE: Subscriptions include all commodity categories, all history from January 1st, 2003 through the present, and all trade lanes	COMPLEX: Not Fixed , Complicated, based on many variables.