COMMODITY SUBSCRIPTION · SCOPE & METHOD · NOT AN OFFER
Sesame seedSubscription Report
HS 120740 · 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
04Method, provenance and terms
COMMODITY SUBSCRIPTION REPORT · PREPARED BY H-α TRADE INTELLIGENCE
2026-10-16
H-α · TRADE INTELLIGENCE
Sesame seed Subscription Report
This document states what an H-α subscription to Sesame seed observes, what its price is measured against, and what the platform holds on the commodity at the moment the document was generated. Figures are read from the platform's own stores at render time. Quotations are reproduced verbatim from the commodity registry.
What this document is, and is not. It is a statement of scope and method. It is not an offer, not a price assessment, and not a recommendation to trade. No counterparty is named and no figure below is presented as a quotable price unless its own basis says it is one. Where the platform holds nothing, this document says so.
THE RECORD
I.The record on this commodity
What the platform holds on Sesame seed, counted at the moment this document was generated. Every figure below is read from the store the page that uses it reads; none is estimated, and a count the platform cannot honestly make is stated as absent rather than shown as zero.
| WHAT IS HELD | COUNT | BASIS |
|---|
| Buyers | 27 | named companies |
| Sellers | 16 | named companies |
| Countries | 9 | in the record |
| Ports | 13 | worked by the book |
| Customs lanes | — | no lane has been cut on this HS code yet |
| Declarations | — | no declaration has been read on this HS code yet |
| Prices | 4 | legs on the desk |
| Pursuit lanes | — | the pursuit engine has not been run on this commodity |
| Freight routes | 10 | container · drawn |
| Inland legs | — | 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 Sesame seed is, and what H-α does with it
Sesame seed prices by colour, purity and oil content: natural white and hulled seed for food and confectionery, brown and black seed for oil and for East Asian food use. Sudan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tanzania, India, Myanmar and Mozambique carry supply; China, Japan, Türkiye, South Korea and the European Union carry demand, with China taking the largest single share. Free fatty acid, admixture and moisture are the governing specifications, and the trade is heavily exposed to African harvest and security conditions.
What the subscription does with it
The subscription reads the declared record on sesame's HS heading, keeps exporters, cleaners, hullers and importers in one book with the port each works, and states the price basis as the registry defines it. Where the anchor is a customs unit value rather than an assessed price, that distinction is preserved on every figure derived from it.
The registry’s note on the headings this subscription reads:
120740 sesamum seeds, whether or not broken
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
Every subscription is one commodity and the same nine pages, in the order they are worked. Under each is a single line taken from that page as it stands today — one line, not the page. A page marked opening is not yet reachable for this commodity; where its line is drawn from a commodity that is already open, the line carries that commodity’s name.
OPEN01Market Today
What is true about this market on this data day: the mark, how old it is, and what that age lets you say. Print age, never fetch age — a monthly benchmark is not quoted as today's price.
2,069.89 USD/tonne · US import CIF value (customs value plus declared import charges to the first US port), sesame seed (HS 1207.40), 2026-07 · US Census Bureau international trade API · print 2026-07-31
OPEN02Intel
Why the price sits where it does. The origin ladder, the spreads between grades and legs, and the drivers underneath them — every rung carrying its own source and its own print date.
Sesame CIF China (Comtrade declared import unit value) · 1,673.52 · CIF China (customs CIF unit value), HS 1207.40 · UN Comtrade · print 2023
OPEN03Customs
The declared record on this commodity's HS codes: lanes cut from real declarations, the parties at both ends, and the unit values that were actually realised rather than quoted.
no line can be drawn for this page on any commodity yet
OPEN04Register
One book, two roles. Every buyer and every seller on this commodity — where they sit, which ports they work, and a stamp on each row saying where it came from.
Bay State Milling · buyer · US · baltimore · unset
OPEN05Trade Audit
Put a trade shape in — volume, origin, destination, incoterm, price — and the desk audits it against the record. Where there is no basis to judge it, it refuses rather than scores.
Grade (SHB/Santos) baseline SHB · 3 specs checked: grade, screen size, defects per 300g
specimen · Coffee
OPEN06Pursuit
Who to call, and the reason for the call. A lane is gated on four legs — alive, named, priced, routed — and only a lane that passes all four reaches the board.
no line can be drawn for this page on any commodity yet
OPEN07Deal Maker
The cost stack end to end: FOB, freight, insurance, discharge, inland, duty. What the cargo lands at and what is left for you, with the source shown under every input.
insurance % of CIF 0.05 · discharge USD/MT 1
OPEN08Freight
The ocean leg: lane rates by vessel class or by box, transit times, port congestion, and the chokepoints between origin and destination.
nhava-sheva → baltimore · container · High volume · 10 sellers · 14 buyers
OPEN09Logistics
Everything that is not the ocean leg: inland mode, gateways, rail and truck corridors, border crossings, and where a cargo actually stops moving.
no line can be drawn for this page on any commodity yet
METHOD
IV.Method, provenance and terms
Every figure carries its source and its date. No number appears here or on the platform without the store it was read from and the date that store stamped it. A figure that cannot carry both is not published.
Print age, never fetch age. A price is aged from the date the source printed it. Re-fetching a monthly series nightly does not make it daily, and it is not presented as though it did.
The mark is named, never chosen. The headline price is the series the commodity registry names for this commodity. Where the store holds several for one commodity, none is picked by position or recency.
Absence is stated. Where the platform holds nothing, it says what is missing and why. A dash or an omitted section would read as completeness that has not been earned.
Deterministic. Figures are read and arithmetic is applied. No figure here or on the platform is the output of a language model.
Terms
Registration is open and no fee is being collected. A registration records who asked and which commodity; H-α comes back to the address given. No account is created and nothing is owed on registration.
The record is assembled from two sources: api.census.gov, US Census Bureau international trade API. Each is free to consult and each is named on every figure it produces, so a subscriber can go to the source and check the number rather than take it.