COMMODITY SUBSCRIPTION · SCOPE & METHOD · NOT AN OFFER
Tropical spicesSubscription Report
HS 090411, 090412, 090611, 090619, 090620, 090710… · spices · 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
Tropical spices Subscription Report
THE RECORD
I.The record on this commodity
| WHAT IS HELD | COUNT | BASIS |
|---|
| Buyers | 78 | named companies |
| Sellers | 76 | named companies |
| Countries | 55 | in the record |
| Ports | 20 | worked by the book |
| Customs lanes | 166 | cut from declarations |
| Declarations | 3,618 | latest year, on those lanes |
| Prices | 4 | legs on the desk |
| Pursuit lanes | 146 | 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 Tropical spices is, and what H-α does with it
The tropical spice complex — black and white pepper, vanilla, cloves, nutmeg and mace, cinnamon and cassia, ginger — is a set of separate markets with very different supply structures. Vietnam and Brazil carry pepper, Madagascar and Indonesia vanilla, Indonesia and Tanzania cloves, Sri Lanka true cinnamon against Chinese and Vietnamese cassia. Grade turns on bulk density and piperine for pepper, on vanillin and moisture for vanilla, and several of these lines are narrow enough that a single crop failure resets the price level for years.
What the subscription does with it
The subscription reads the declared record on each spice's own HS heading, keeps growers' cooperatives, exporters, processors and importers in one book with the role stamped on each row, and states the price basis as the registry defines it. On a line with no free published price the report says so and publishes no mark rather than deriving one from a neighbouring spice.
The registry’s note on the headings this subscription reads:
090411 pepper, neither crushed nor ground; 090412 pepper, crushed or ground; 090611 cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum); 090619 cinnamon, other ...
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
7,445.93 USD/tonne · US import CIF value (customs value plus declared import charges to the first US port), pepper, not crushed (HS 0904.11), 2026-08 · US Census Bureau international trade API · print 2026-08-31
OPEN02Intel
US import CIF value (customs value plus declared import charges to the first US port), cloves, crushed or ground (HS 0907.20), 2026-08 · 7,545.44 · US import CIF value (customs value plus declared import charges to the first US port), cloves, crushed or ground (HS 0907.20), 2026-08 · US Census Bureau international trade API · print 2026-08-31
OPEN03Customs
US → CO · 985 declarations · not priced: no row at cargo scale — all 1525 declaration · 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
VN → 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 · 62 sellers · 32 buyers
OPEN09Logistics
no line can be drawn for this page on any commodity yet