New on iSafeTrade: Premium Searches

We've also added premium search capabilities, so you can now search for product suppliers within a specific geographic region:
http://www.iSafeTrade.com/premiumsearch

For example, here is a list of importers/exporters of batteries in Mexico:
http://www.isafetrade.com/premiumsearch?category=company&name_query=&address_query=mexico&product_query=batteries+battery&limit=25&commit=SEARCH

iSafeTrade.com's LinkedIn Group

I setup a group on LinkedIn for iSafeTrade.com:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2534575

We'll use this group to discuss topics such as international supplier fraud, propose new features for our website, and solicit feedback from our users.

If these topics are of interest to you, feel free to join the group. Membership is open.

30 New Fraudulent Suppliers This Week

Thirty new scam reports on fraudulent suppliers/manufacturers added this week:
http://www.iSafeTrade.com/scams

You can post your own scam reports and company reviews here:
http://www.iSafeTrade.com/companies/new?writereview=true

You can search for suppliers (both legitimate and fraudulent) here:
http://www.iSafeTrade.com/search

For help, contact support@isafetrade.com.

Find U.S. Facilities

The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) maintains a list of facilities by FIRMS code. FIRMS means Facilities Information Resource Management. It contains a list of bonded warehouses, container freigh stations, warehouse deconsolidators, foreign trade zones (FTZs), etc.

To make it easier to find U.S. facilities, we have made this easily searhable on iSafeTrade:
http://www.iSafeTrade.com/search?category=facility

For example, search for "Federal Express" to get a list of Federal Express facilities.

U.S. Trade Compliance: EAR and OFAC Compliance

American exporters have legal obligations to avoid doing business with certain kinds of foreign businesses. The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has a convenient reference:
http://www.bis.doc.gov/complianceandenforcement/liststocheck.htm

These lists are maintained by separate departments of the U.S. government and compliance can be quite challenging for exporters. To make this easier, iSafeTrade.com has made it possible to search all of these lists automatically. These lists can be searched from here:
http://www.iSafeTrade.com/search?category=restricted
Example: search for "Empresa Cubana de Aviacion"

1. The Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) administers trade sanctions. They maintain the Specially Desiginated Nationals (SDN) list.

2. Licensing requires under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) can be triggered by certain companies/people. This list is called the "Entity List" and is maintained by BIS.

3. The State Department administers International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). The list of companies/persons who barred under ITAR is called the "Debarred List."

4. The State Department administers a list of various sanctions programs (Section 744 of the EAR).

5. The BIS maintains Denied Persons List (DPL) which is a list of people that Americans should avoid doing business with.

6. The BIS also maintains the Unverified List which are a list of companies/people that will cause problems to trade with.

Database of Export Administration Regulations (EAR):
http://www.gpo.gov/bis/ear/ear_data.html

iSafeTrade.com: Bringing trust to global trade

iSafeTrade.com is the leading rating agency for international trade. We provide an unbiased reputation score for suppliers, buyers, and agents. The iSafeTrade Reputation Score is derived from user ratings and reviews, trade history and shipments records, and reliable data sources.

Verify Your Suppliers

Information is the key to minimizing risk. We provide the trade history and user reviews of a supplier. We have over two million suppliers in our database. If your supplier has made international shipments within the past few years, we should have them in our database. If you cannot any records about the company in our database, it doesn't mean they are not a legitimate company, but you should investigate them more thoroughly.

This is an example of a company profile with shipment records:
http://www.isafetrade.com/public/walmart


Find Trusted Suppliers

iSafeTrade.com is a search engine for verifying suppliers using past trade history and user reviews. iSafeTrade contains trade history for over 2 million suppliers. You can search for suppliers by name, address, industry or product, by contact person, etc.
You can also search for scam reports (customer complaints). If a customer feels they were cheated by a company, they can report it on our site and also report the person's name, phone number, etc. So if the fraudulent company tries to change their company name, you can still discover the previous scam report using other information.

Report Scams and Fraudulent Companies

If you have been cheated by a fraudulent overseas company, there is often not much legal recourse. The company you were dealing with may not even exist. With iSafeTrade, you can report the fraudulent company and prevent other users from getting scammed. Report any information you have about the fraudulent company and people involved (Western Union number, Paypal ID, MSN or Skype ID, the person's name, etc.). People can locate your scam report using any of that information.

Here is a sample scam report.

Promote Your Company

Companies can promote themselves by creating a free profile and requesting testimonials from satisfied customers. Trustworthy companies can greatly increase their online reputation by using iSafeTrade. When a customer writes a testimonial for your company, it will be visible to other users and also increase your iSafeTrade Reputation Score.

In addition, your company can create a "public profile." A public profile can be viewed by anyone (even if the person does not have an iSafeTrade account). You can show your iSafeTrade Public Profile to prospective customers and they can see your previous customers' testimonials and also learn more about your company.

This is Walmart's Public Profile: http://www.isafetrade.com/public/walmart

Contact

Your feedback is welcome: staff@isafetrade.com