Supply-chain privacy for product companies

Your suppliers are part of your advantage.

Keep them that way.

Supplier relationships can be surfaced through commercial trade-intelligence platforms built from U.S. customs data. Trade Privacy helps protect the identities connecting your company to the suppliers behind your products — and keeps that protection current.

Protected and exposed vessel-manifest informationTwo container ships are swept by a neutral overlay scan. The scan on the left surfaces a bill of lading with consignee and shipper secured in green. The scan on the right surfaces a bill of lading exposing the consignee Acme Products, Inc. and the shipper Pacific Industries Ltd. in red.BILL OF LADINGCONSIGNEESECUREDSHIPPERSECUREDBILL OF LADINGCONSIGNEEACME PRODUCTS, INC.SHIPPERPACIFIC INDUSTRIES LTD.
Private analyst review

See your company the way a competitor might.

Instead of publishing an automated result, Trade Privacy reviews the company identity and available U.S. vessel-shipment records before communicating findings.

Supply-chain exposure reviewAnalyst reviewed
01

Resolve

Confirm company identity

02

Review

Inspect available records

03

Report

Private findings by email

Reviewed privately. No obligation to purchase protection.Request review
The exposure

Your supply chain may already be searchable.

Commercial trade-intelligence platforms have spent years turning customs records into searchable company, supplier, product, and shipment intelligence.

What once required specialist research can now reveal sourcing relationships, product activity, and shipment patterns through familiar search tools.

Services such as ImportYeti, Panjiva and ImportGenius make trade and supplier intelligence searchable for different types of users. Their datasets, coverage and features differ.

Search by
CompanySupplierProductShipment
What such services make available
COMPANY PROFILE
Supplier relationships
SHIPMENT HISTORY
Arrival activity and cadence
SUPPLIER PROFILE
Customers / buyers
PRODUCT ACTIVITY
Descriptions and categories
TRADE RELATIONSHIPS
Observed company-to-company activity
An established intelligence market — not a hypothetical one.
Public record → commercial reconstruction

The real exposure is the connection.

A product description tells competitors what to look for. A shipper field can tell them where to start looking for the source.

Connect both to your company and a shipping record becomes more than logistics data. It becomes a sourcing shortcut.

Illustrative U.S. vessel record
Reading record
CONSIGNEENORTHLINE HOME, INC.
PRODUCT DESCVACUUM INSULATED STAINLESS STEEL TRAVEL TUMBLERS, 30 OZ.
SHIPPERNINGBO HORIZON HOUSEWARE CO., LTD.
ORIGINNINGBO, CHINA
UNLOADING PORTLOS ANGELES, CA
Competitor reconstructionBrand + product + observed source
Your brand

NORTHLINE HOME

Your product

30 OZ INSULATED TUMBLER

Observed source

NINGBO HORIZON HOUSEWARE

Sourcing trail complete

Your product now points toward its source.

A competitor no longer starts with a blank page. The record connects your brand, the product you sell, and an observed shipper in one public trail.

The competitive shortcut

You spent years finding the right source. The record gives someone a head start.

01IDENTIFY SOURCE
02REQUEST COMPARABLE
03NEGOTIATE DIRECT
04COMPETE

For brands and product companies, supplier discovery, specification work, quality validation, and commercial negotiation are part of the advantage. Public attribution can compress that discovery process for someone else.

See the difference

Break the attribution, not the cargo record.

Confidentiality does not erase every shipment field. It targets the identities that make the record attributable.

Your supply chain shouldn’t come with instructions for copying it.

Trade Privacy helps break the public connection between your company, your products, and the suppliers behind them.

Who this is for

For product companies whose sourcing is part of the advantage.

01CONSUMER BRAND
Recurring overseas manufacturing
02WHOLESALER / DISTRIBUTOR
Supplier network is commercially sensitive
03PRIVATE-LABEL COMPANY
Sourcing is part of product advantage
04SPECIALTY MANUFACTURER
Strategic component or finished-goods suppliers

Best suited to established brands, wholesalers, distributors, private-label businesses, and specialty manufacturers with recurring ocean imports and sourcing relationships worth protecting.

Entity coverage

Privacy depends on the name being right.

NORTHLINE PRODUCTS, INC.

Registered legal name

EXACT ENTITY
VERIFY

NORTHLINE PRODUCTS INC

Punctuation dropped by filer

VARIATION OBSERVED
REVIEW

NORTHLINE PRODUCTS

Entity suffix omitted

VARIATION OBSERVED
REVIEW

NORTHLINE PRODUCT CO.

Singular stem and different suffix — may be a different company

SEPARATE ENTITY
REVIEW

NORTHLINE PRODUCTS LLC

Different entity form under common ownership

VARIATION OBSERVED
REVIEW

One company can appear under more than one name.

Trade Privacy manages the identities and entities that matter instead of treating confidentiality as a single submission that can be forgotten.

Not every observed variation is eligible for protection. Some belong to a different company entirely. Each one is reviewed before anything is submitted.

Operational contrast

Filing is available. Staying protected is the work.

A company can submit a vessel-manifest confidentiality request directly. Trade Privacy does not sell exclusive access to any government process. What we sell is the ongoing work around it — the identities, the verification, the monitoring, and the renewal.

Do it yourself
Trade Privacy
01submit request
01exposure review
02track effective date
02managed identity coverage
03maintain entity names
03request management
04watch for new variations
04verification
05check exposure
05ongoing monitoring
06remember renewal
06renewal tracking
07investigate issues
07status reporting
08
08leak triage on eligible plans
Every step, every year, by memory
Held in one managed file
The privacy file

Privacy is not a filing. It is a file that stays open.

ILLUSTRATIVE FILE
Trade Privacy
Confidentiality file
FILE IDTP-10482
ENTITYNORTHLINE PRODUCTS, INC.
STATUSACTIVE
IDENTITY COVERAGEVERIFIED
REQUESTCONFIRMED
EFFECTIVESEP 04 2026
MONITORINGACTIVE
NEXT REVIEWDEC 2026
RENEWAL WINDOWJUN 2028
CustodyOPEN
  1. SEP 04 2026CONFIDENTIALITY EFFECTIVE
  2. OCT 11 2026IDENTITY CHECK COMPLETE
  3. JAN 16 2027MONITORING REVIEW — NO EXPOSURE FOUND
  4. APR 02 2027NEW NAME VARIATION OBSERVED
  5. APR 03 2027VARIATION REVIEW COMPLETE
  6. JUN 2028RENEWAL WINDOW OPEN
  7. AUG 2028RENEWAL COMPLETE
  8. FILE REMAINS OPEN — MONITORING CONTINUES
Monitoring

New records keep arriving.

ILLUSTRATIVE STREAM
Verification lineChecking
  1. 02:14:31
    VESSEL RECORD CHECKED
    NO MATCH
  2. 02:14:33
    VESSEL RECORD CHECKED
    NO EXPOSURE
  3. 02:14:35
    ENTITY:NORTHLINE PRODUCTS INC.
    KNOWN VARIATION
    COVERAGE VERIFIED
  4. 02:14:36
    VESSEL RECORD CHECKED
    NO EXPOSURE
  5. 02:14:37
    ENTITY:NORTHLINE PRODUCT CO.
    MATCH CONFIDENCE:74%
    POSSIBLE NAME VARIATION
    REVIEW REQUIRED
…STREAM CONTINUES
Expanded record — review required
Character comparison
COVERED ENTITY

NORTHLINE PRODUCTS INC.

OBSERVED NAME

NORTHLINE PRODUCT CO.

MATCH CONFIDENCE: 74%CLASSIFICATION: POSSIBLE NAME VARIATIONACTION: ANALYST REVIEW

A similar identity appeared in newly observed records. Trade Privacy reviews whether it relates to the company and whether any action is appropriate.

This is why the work is recurring. Records arrive continuously, names drift, and coverage decided last year may not describe how the company appears this year.

Engagement terms

Pricing

ACTIVATION
$299
per legal entity
  • exposure baseline
  • identity and name review
  • request preparation
  • first 30 days included
BASIC
$79
per month · 1 legal entity
  • 1 legal entity
  • renewal tracking
  • monthly monitoring
  • status reporting
Start Basic protection $299 today for first entity · $79/mo from day 31
PRO
$199
per month · up to 5 legal entities
  • up to 5 legal entities
  • everything in Basic
  • leak triage
  • broker / forwarder naming templates
  • priority support
Start Pro protection $299 today for first entity · $199/mo from day 31

Protection Activation is $299 per legal entity. Initial checkout activates the first legal entity and includes the first 30 days of ongoing management. Pro supports up to five legal entities under the $199 monthly plan; each additional Pro entity requires a separate $299 activation when added. Monthly billing begins automatically on day 31. Cancel anytime; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current service period. Each activation fee becomes non-refundable once that entity’s confidentiality request has been submitted to CBP. See the full Service Policy.

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Background

Built from firsthand experience with this exact problem.

Trade Privacy began around one narrow problem: helping importing companies manage confidentiality for identifying information in U.S. vessel-manifest records.

The process made one thing clear: the submission itself is only part of the job. Company identities change, new records appear, coverage needs to be checked, and renewal eventually comes due.

This version of Trade Privacy is built around that operating reality — not around making a free government filing look complicated.

01ORIGINAL FOCUSVessel-manifest confidentiality for importing companies
02WHAT THE WORK REVEALEDThe filing is one moment. Identity coverage, verification, monitoring, and renewal are the recurring work.
03BUILT FOR TODAYA managed privacy file that keeps those responsibilities visible over time
Trade Privacy

Keep your sourcing
relationships yours.

Trade Privacy helps product companies protect supplier identities and keep vessel-manifest confidentiality managed over time.

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