# US Import Records: Importers, Suppliers & Bills of Lading (`tacps126/us-import-records`) Actor

US customs import records for any importer or overseas supplier: totals, 12-month trend, suppliers or US customers, products (HS codes), countries, ports, carriers, recent bills of lading, and lookalike importers that share suppliers.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tacps126/us-import-records.md
- **Developed by:** [Tapaswai Choudhary](https://apify.com/tacps126) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, E-commerce
- **Security:** Limited permissions
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## Pricing

from $3.20 / 1,000 company or supplier profiles

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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# README

## US Import Records — Importers, Suppliers & Bills of Lading

US customs **import records** (sea bills of lading) for any **US importer** or **overseas supplier**: total and last-12-month shipments with the **trend**, **who they buy from** (or, for a supplier, its US customers), products by **HS code**, source countries, ports and carriers, the most recent **bills of lading**, and **lookalike importers**: other US companies buying from the same factories.

**Built for** sourcing and procurement teams finding factories, freight forwarders and customs brokers prospecting importers, B2B sales teams qualifying accounts, competitive and supply-chain analysts, and AI agents.

### What you get

| Row | Fields |
|---|---|
| `profile` (`role`: importer or supplier) | `name`, `address`, `city`, `state`, `country`, `website`, `alsoKnownAs`, `totalShipments`, `shipments12m`, `shipmentsPrior12m`, `shipmentGrowthPct`, `firstShipment`, `lastShipment`, `estShippingCostUsd`, `fullContainerSharePct`, `topCountries`, `topSuppliers` / `topCustomers`, `partnerCount`, `products` (HS codes), `topLanes` (port to port), `topCarriers`, `uflpaListed`, `confidentialSince`, `dataUpdated`, `url` |
| `supplier` / `customer` row | `of` (the company), `name`, `country`, `address`, `shipments`, `shipments12m`, `weightKg`, `teu`, `hsCodes`, `products`, `firstQuarter`, `lastQuarter`, `url` |
| `shipment` row | `date`, `billOfLading`, `masterBillOfLading`, `partner`, `partnerCountry`, `description`, `weightKg`, `containers`, `quantity`, `estShippingCostUsd`, `route` |
| `lookalike` row | `of`, `name`, `sharedSuppliers`, `suppliers`, `shipments12mFromShared`, `shipmentsFromShared` |

### Why this Actor

- **Trend, not just totals:** last 12 months against the 12 before, so you see who is growing, shrinking or stopped.
- **Lookalike importers:** the US companies that use the same factories as your customer or competitor, ranked by shared suppliers. A ready prospect list.
- **Both directions:** start from an importer to see its suppliers, or from a factory to see its US buyers.
- **Shipment alerts:** schedule with *Recent shipments* and *Only new shipments* to get a competitor's or supplier's new bills of lading.
- **Names or links:** type a company name, or paste its importyeti.com page link when the name is ambiguous.
- **For AI agents.** Callable as an MCP tool.

### How to use it

Who supplies Allbirds, and which other brands use the same factories:

```json
{ "companies": ["Allbirds"], "findLookalikes": true }
```

New shipments of two competitors, every week:

```json
{ "companies": ["Allbirds", "https://www.importyeti.com/company/on"], "includePartners": false, "includeShipments": true, "onlyNew": true }
```

US customers of a factory:

```json
{ "suppliers": ["https://www.importyeti.com/supplier/regina-miracle-international"] }
```

### Pricing

**$4 per 1,000 profiles**, **$1 per 1,000 supplier or customer rows**, **$1.50 per 1,000 shipments** and **$2 per 1,000 lookalikes**, plus a small start fee per run. On the Apify free plan a run returns up to 50 rows.

### Good to know

- Records are public US customs sea-import manifests (bills of lading) as published on ImportYeti; air and land imports are not in them. Companies can ask US Customs to keep their manifests confidential; `confidentialSince` shows when that started, and newer shipments are then missing.
- A name finds the page with the same name; if a company trades under another name, paste its page link.
- Questions: **tacps126@gmail.com**.

# Actor input Schema

## `companies` (type: `array`):

US companies that import by sea: a name ("Allbirds") or its importyeti.com company page link.

## `suppliers` (type: `array`):

Factories and shippers abroad: a name or its importyeti.com supplier page link. Returns their US customers.

## `includePartners` (type: `boolean`):

One row per supplier of an importer (or per US customer of a supplier): country, shipments, last 12 months, weight, HS codes, products, first and last active quarter.

## `maxPartnersPerCompany` (type: `integer`):

Largest first.

## `includeShipments` (type: `boolean`):

The latest bills of lading (up to 50 per company): date, supplier, product description, weight, containers, estimated freight cost.

## `shippedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Only shipments in this window.

## `findLookalikes` (type: `boolean`):

Other US importers buying from the same suppliers, ranked by how many suppliers they share: competitors and prospects.

## `maxLookalikesPerCompany` (type: `integer`):

Most shared suppliers first.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Most rows returned per run (profiles, suppliers, shipments and lookalikes together).

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

With Recent shipments on: schedule the Actor and each run returns only bills of lading earlier runs did not deliver (new shipments of a competitor or supplier).

## `monitorName` (type: `string`):

Optional name for the “only new” history, so several monitors can run side by side.

## `tenantId` (type: `string`):

Optional label used to keep separate histories for different clients or teams.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

The default works for most runs.

## `debug` (type: `boolean`):

Save extra diagnostics with the run (for support requests).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companies": [
    "Allbirds"
  ],
  "includePartners": true,
  "maxPartnersPerCompany": 25,
  "includeShipments": false,
  "findLookalikes": false,
  "maxLookalikesPerCompany": 25,
  "maxItems": 500,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  },
  "debug": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

The produced items (default dataset items).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "companies": [
        "Allbirds"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tacps126/us-import-records").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "companies": ["Allbirds"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("tacps126/us-import-records").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "companies": [
    "Allbirds"
  ]
}' |
apify call tacps126/us-import-records --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,tacps126/us-import-records"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/EsaiMrEq0uOGYV7le/builds/vztETHUb1qGhlQqoV/openapi.json