COMMODITY SUBSCRIPTION · SCOPE & METHOD · NOT AN OFFER
HoneySubscription Report
HS 040900 · agri · container
NINE PAGES · REGISTRATION OPEN · NO FEE IS BEING COLLECTED YET
PRICE BASIS · CUSTOMS RECORD · COUNTERPARTY REGISTER — READ FROM FREE, CITED SOURCES
01The record on this commodity
02What it is, and what H-α does with it
03The nine pages, what each does, and a line from each
COMMODITY SUBSCRIPTION REPORT · PREPARED BY H-α TRADE INTELLIGENCE
2026-11-07
H-α · TRADE INTELLIGENCE
Honey Subscription Report
THE RECORD
I.The record on this commodity
| WHAT IS HELD | COUNT | BASIS |
|---|
| Buyers | 93 | named companies |
| Sellers | 76 | named companies |
| Countries | 36 | in the record |
| Ports | 21 | worked by the book |
| Customs lanes | 63 | cut from declarations |
| Declarations | 695 | latest year, on those lanes |
| Prices | 4 | legs on the desk |
| Pursuit lanes | 54 | lanes on the board |
| Freight routes | 10 | container · drawn |
| Port hubs | — | no inland leg is on file for this commodity yet |
| Specifications | — | the registry carries no quality spec or grade table for this commodity |
| Named sources | 2 | all free to consult |
THE COMMODITY
II.What Honey is, and what H-α does with it
Honey is priced by botanical origin and by adulteration risk, not by a single grade. Bulk drum honey for industrial and packing use — China, Argentina, Ukraine, India, Vietnam, Brazil, Mexico — is a different product from monofloral and mānuka honey sold at retail. The trade's defining problem is authenticity: syrup adulteration, and the C4 sugar, NMR and pollen tests used to detect it, are what a buyer's specification is largely written around, and what customs enforcement in the EU and the US turns on.
What the subscription does with it
The subscription reads the declared record on honey's HS heading, keeps the book of packers, importers and exporters, and states the price basis and its caveat verbatim from the registry. The authenticity and enforcement caveats are reproduced in full rather than summarised, because in this commodity the caveat is the material fact.
The registry’s caveat on the price anchor:
US Government work (17 U.S.C. 105). The API terms require attribution and prohibit implying Census endorsement; they do not restrict redistribution. Terms: https://www.census.gov/data/developers/about/terms-of-service.html
THE NINE PAGES
III.The nine pages, what each does, and a line from each
OPEN01Market Today
2,959.91 USD/tonne · US import CIF value (customs value plus declared import charges to the first US port), natural honey (HS 0409.00), 2026-08 · US Census Bureau international trade API · print 2026-08-31
OPEN02Intel
Honey CIF Germany (Comtrade declared import unit value) · 3,238.07 · CIF Germany (customs CIF unit value), HS 0409.00 · UN Comtrade · print 2026-07
OPEN03Customs
CL → ? · 543 declarations · unit value median 2,737.76 · last seen 2026-07-28
OPEN04Register
one register record · buyer · US · baltimore · unset
OPEN05Trade Audit
Grade (SHB/Santos) baseline SHB · 3 specs checked: grade, screen size, defects per 300g
specimen · Coffee
OPEN06Pursuit
AR → CO · still needs recent trade, named parties
OPEN07Deal Maker
insurance % of CIF 0.05 · discharge USD/MT 1
OPEN08Freight
nhava-sheva → baltimore · container · High volume · 35 sellers · 27 buyers
OPEN09Logistics
no line can be drawn for this page on any commodity yet