Stay ahead in a dynamic market
With the Sourcing Analysis Tool, you can gain valuable insights about your imported products and benchmark them against the broader U.S. market. Additionally, by highlighting emerging trends, it’s easy to identify cost-saving opportunities and proactively adapt your strategies.
Gain visibility
Get clarity and actionable insights about how your sourcing strategy compares to the rest of the U.S. market.
Stay current
Track trade trends, including how shifts in sourcing locations across industries or commodities impact your goals.
Control costs
Discover new locations to source from that may carry trade legislation—like free trade agreements (FTAs)—to reduce duties.
Strengthen your U.S. import sourcing strategy
Visualize your data
See sourcing locations, duty payments, and effective duty rate all in one place, Navisphere®. Gain visibility—from high-level to item-level—to your import activity and footprint.
- Spend per unit
- Effective duty rate
- Percentage of total goods spend
- Total value of goods, duties, taxes & fees
Identify FTA opportunities
By analyzing your duty payments and FTA utilization, the analysis can help identify alternative locations to source from that can potentially reduce costs and improve your bottom line.
- FTA analysis
- Claimed special program indicator (SPI) value
- Importer versus market FTA and SPI utilization
Benchmark & track market trends
Compare strategies against other importers in your commodity space and the broader market, to reveal emerging trends and potential opportunities to proactively adapt your sourcing strategy.
- Census value
- Importer value
- Market price per unit
- Share of global market
Go further with the Sourcing Analysis Tool
Discover more customs and trade policy resources
Frequently asked questions
Overview
Q: Where is the data used in the Sourcing Analysis Tool pulled from?
Proprietary C.H. Robinson data is used to directly compare your U.S. entry data against market intelligence datasets from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Q: What does the Sourcing Analysis Tool cost?
For entries that were handled by C.H. Robinson, it is available in your Navisphere® account at no additional cost.
Q: Can I use the tool if C.H. Robinson does not move my freight?
Yes. If C.H. Robinson handles your customs brokerage, your company can access the Sourcing Analysis Tool regardless of freight provider.
Definitions
Q: What is the meaning of origin? Is this where the goods were exported from?
Origin refers to CBP’s definition of the country of origin. At a very high-level, it is defined as "the country of manufacture, production, or growth of any article of foreign origin entering the United States."
Troubleshooting
Q: Who can I contact with issues, questions, or feedback about my sourcing analysis?
Please contact your C.H. Robinson representative with any questions or comments related to the tool.