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Live Trade News. Curated for You.

FTAs, tariff changes, export bans, port disruptions and customs policy, filtered to the products you trade and the markets you sell into. The news that moves your margin, without the scrolling.

Live market intelligence news feed with trade policy updates
Live trade-policy feed
500+
Sources Tracked
Real-time
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HS-Code
Filtered
Country
Specific Alerts

A 5% tariff change on a single HS code can wipe out your margin overnight. A new FTA between two countries can open a market your competitor enters first. A Red Sea attack can add 14 days to a shipment you already promised. Most exporters find out about these events after they've already lost the deal, usually via a customer email or a forwarder's apology. ShipScout's Market Intelligence feed surfaces these events the day they happen, filtered to only what affects your products and your markets.

What's In The Feed

Six Categories. One Dashboard.

FTA Agreements

CEPA (India-UAE), RCEP, India-UK FTA, India-EFTA TEPA, India-EU negotiations, ASEAN updates. Track ratification dates, tariff-line schedules, rules of origin changes.

Tariff Changes

US Section 301, EU CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment), India BCD/SWS revisions, China MOFCOM duty notifications. Filtered to your HS codes only.

Export Bans & Restrictions

Wheat bans, sugar quotas, rare-earth restrictions, semiconductor export controls. Real-time notifications when your product or destination market is affected.

Port & Route Disruptions

Red Sea / Suez / Bab-el-Mandeb attacks, Panama Canal water levels, Houthi disruptions, port strikes (Felixstowe, LA-Long Beach, Hamburg). Alternative-routing intelligence.

Customs Policy Updates

India ICEGATE updates, US CBP rulings, EU Combined Nomenclature changes, AEO program updates, e-invoicing mandates. Pulled directly from government portals.

Currency & Macro

FX swings affecting your priced contracts, central-bank rate decisions in your buyer countries, commodity-price moves on inputs you depend on.

Where The News Comes From

ShipScout aggregates from 500+ sources across three tiers:

Tier 1: Wires & Major Outlets

  • Reuters, Bloomberg, AP: global breaking trade news
  • S&P Global Platts: commodity-specific moves
  • Lloyd's List, JOC, FreightWaves: shipping and logistics
  • Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Nikkei Asia: policy & macro

Tier 2: Government & Trade Portals

  • India: DGFT (Directorate General of Foreign Trade), CBIC, Ministry of Commerce notifications
  • USA: USTR, US Federal Register, US Customs & Border Protection
  • EU: TARIC database, DG TAXUD, European Commission trade defence
  • UAE: Federal Customs Authority, MoEAT (Ministry of Economy)
  • WTO dispute notifications and trade-policy reviews

Tier 3: Industry Associations

  • FIEO, EEPC, APEDA, Spice Board, Marine Products Export Authority
  • NAM, AmCham, Confederation of Indian Industry
  • Sector trade bodies: ICC, IATA, BIMCO, FIATA

How Filtering Works

Generic news feeds drown you in noise. ShipScout's filter is built around three signals tied to your account:

  1. Your HS codes. Loaded from your customs declarations or selected manually. News tagged to your codes (or upstream raw materials) gets pushed to top.
  2. Your markets. The destination countries where you ship. India-UK FTA news matters if you export to the UK; you can ignore it if you don't.
  3. Your routes. Whether your shipments transit Suez, Panama, or alternative routes. A Red Sea disruption alert is critical if you're shipping India→Europe; not relevant if you're India→US-West-Coast.

Real example: India-UAE CEPA tariff schedule

An aluminium-extrusions exporter (HS 7604) was watching India-UAE CEPA negotiations. ShipScout flagged the day the final tariff schedule was notified: UAE BCD on aluminium extrusions falling from 5% to 0% over five years. The exporter's 22 active UAE buyers got tailored quotations referencing the new duty advantage before the news hit mainstream trade press. Three converted to LC-backed POs within 6 weeks.

Use Cases That Pay for the Subscription

1. First-mover advantage on FTA preferences

When India-UK FTA goes live, the first exporter to email UK buyers with a duty-revised quotation wins the conversation. ShipScout flags the live date and gives you a buyer-specific alert.

2. Avoiding stuck shipments

Red Sea disruption notification on day 1 means you call your forwarder before they call you, reroute via the Cape of Good Hope and give the buyer a revised ETA, rather than hearing about the missed window two weeks later.

3. Pricing power from input-cost moves

Steel-billet price up 8% in 48 hours? You see it before your customer does. Adjust quotes in real time. Stop honoring a stale quotation that wipes out your margin.

4. Competitive intelligence on market shifts

Indonesia bans nickel-ore exports. Your competitor's nickel-based supply chain just got disrupted. Yours didn't. Now is the time to call their customers.

Be the first to know. Be the first to call.

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Market signals, on the same screen as your buyers

The feed sits inside ShipScout, next to the trade data, the company profiles and your pipeline. Filter to your HS codes, markets and routes, and the events that move your margin surface the day they break, ranked above the noise.

  • FTAs, tariffs, bans and port disruptions in one feed
  • Filtered to your products, markets and routes
  • Tie each alert straight to the buyers it affects
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