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What customs records can and cannot tell you about buyers, suppliers and markets in Latin America.

• 5,589 Mexican companies buy electrical connectors from China
  What Mexican customs records show about which countries supply which products, and why displacing an incumbent supplier is an easier sale than creating demand.
• How to find buyers for your export product (without guessing)
  A practical method for finding the companies that already import what you make, using customs records instead of directories and trade shows.
• Nearshoring: who in Mexico can actually supply you
  Mexico has 33,737 companies with a physical export record. How to tell them from the IMMEX paper transfers, and what customs data proves.
• Panjiva, ImportGenius and ImportYeti: what they do, and what they don't
  An honest comparison of the main trade-data platforms, what each is actually built for, and where a contact-first approach fits differently.
• Market entry research: what it costs, and what it cannot tell you
  Industry reports run US$2,000–5,000 and answer a question most exporters do not have. Here is what they cover, what they leave out, and when a buyer list is the better spend.