Exporter of sesame seeds, cumin, coriander, fennel, psyllium husk and guar gum from Gujarat. Own cleaning and sortex lines, steam sterilisation thr…
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Browse exporters, manufacturers and merchant exporters listing free on EximDataProvider. Every profile shows exactly which registration numbers have been validated and which have not.
An exporter directory is only as good as what it lets you rule out. Anyone can describe themselves as a manufacturer-exporter, and on most B2B platforms that description sits unchallenged next to a paid placement badge that means nothing more than a completed invoice. This directory takes the opposite approach: the badges describe checks, the checks are documented, and where a check has not been done the listing says so.
Listing here is free for the exporter, which changes the composition of the directory. There is no budget filter deciding who appears, so a small specialist shipping two containers a month sits alongside a large house, ranked the same way. That is a feature for a buyer with an unusual specification and an irritation for a buyer who wanted the list pre-sorted by size. Use the category and location filters to do that sorting yourself.
Exporter of sesame seeds, cumin, coriander, fennel, psyllium husk and guar gum from Gujarat. Own cleaning and sortex lines, steam sterilisation thr…
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Three distinct kinds of business describe themselves as exporters, and conflating them is the single most common cause of a disappointing first order. A manufacturer-exporter makes the goods and ships them, so specification changes are possible and lead times reflect a production schedule. A merchant exporter buys from factories and ships under its own IEC, so it can offer breadth and often better terms on standard goods, but cannot change a specification without going back to a mill. A trading house or sourcing agent aggregates both.
None of these is inherently better. They fail in different ways, which is the point. A manufacturer is the right counterparty for a custom specification and the wrong one for a mixed container of forty SKUs. A merchant exporter is the right counterparty for standard goods at volume and the wrong one for a product where you need to audit the plant. Establish which you are talking to before the specification conversation, not after.
| Check | Why it matters | How to do it |
|---|---|---|
| GSTIN on the government portal | A validated GSTIN is well-formed; the portal tells you it is live and who holds it | Search the number on the GST portal's taxpayer search |
| IEC against DGFT | An IEC is required to export from India at all | Check the number on the DGFT 'View Your IEC' page |
| Export history | A supplier with real shipments has a record you can corroborate | Ask for bills of lading or shipping bills, then cross-check the HS line against customs data |
| Bank account name | Payment to an account in a different name is the classic diversion | Insist the beneficiary name matches the registered entity exactly |
| Factory or office address | A registered address that does not exist is decisive | A video call walking the premises costs nothing and is very hard to fake |
| Sample against specification | Catalogue text is not a contract | Pay for a pre-shipment sample and test it against the written specification before the balance payment |
None of these checks is exotic and none of them costs anything. They are skipped because a supplier who answers quickly and quotes well creates a sense of momentum that makes verification feel rude. The cost of that politeness is borne entirely by the buyer, and it is borne after the money has moved.
Treat a directory profile as a claim, not a finding. The parts that can be checked mechanically — the structure of a GSTIN, whether an IEC is in valid DGFT form, whether the PAN inside the GSTIN matches the IEC — are checked here and shown as badges. Everything else on the page is what the member typed: turnover band, team size, capacity, main markets, year of establishment. Those are useful and are usually honest, but they are unverified by construction, and a profile that is impressive in exactly the fields nobody can check is worth a second look.
The most informative part of most listings is the product catalogue. A supplier who has listed specific grades, packing, minimum order quantities and lead times is describing an operation they actually run. A catalogue of one-line product names covering nine unrelated chapters usually describes an intermediary who will source whatever you ask for, which is a legitimate business model but a different one, and it should change what you ask for in a first order.
You do not know it from the listing alone, and no directory can honestly claim otherwise. What the listing gives you is a set of checkable facts: a structurally valid GSTIN and IEC, whether the PAN inside the GSTIN matches the IEC, a confirmed email address, and a product catalogue detailed enough to judge. Verify the registration numbers on the government portals and ask for shipping documents before money moves.
Because the member did not supply registration numbers, or supplied ones that failed the structural check. Both are shown honestly rather than hidden. A listing with no badges is not necessarily a bad supplier — many small exporters simply have not filled the fields in — but it does mean there is less you can check without asking.
No. There is no paid placement on this site and no plan to introduce it. Ordering is by listing activity, not by spend.
No. The platform is not party to your transaction, takes no percentage, and does not want sight of your contract.
Use the enquiry form on their profile. The message goes to the address on their listing and they can reply to you directly by email. Signed-in members also see the phone number.
Exporters receive a great many messages that cost nothing to send and cannot be answered usefully — ‘please send your best price’ with no specification, no quantity and no destination. Those get a form reply or none, not because the supplier is unhelpful but because there is no question in them. A first message that names the product precisely, states a quantity and a destination port, gives an Incoterm, and says when you want it will usually get a real quote within a day, because it can be answered.
It is also worth saying who you are and what you are going to do with the goods. A supplier deciding how much attention to give a new contact is largely guessing at whether you will actually buy, and a sentence of context resolves that guess in your favour. If you have bought this product before, say what you paid and what went wrong — nothing moves a conversation past sales language faster.
| Document | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| IEC certificate | The firm is registered with DGFT to export at all |
| GST registration certificate | The legal entity name and registered address, which should match the bank beneficiary exactly |
| Recent shipping bill or bill of lading | That they have actually shipped this HS line, recently, and at what sort of volume |
| Product test or analysis report | That the specification is measured rather than asserted |
| Certifications relevant to your market | FSSAI, APEDA, ISO, GOTS, CE and similar, depending on product and destination |
| Bank details on company letterhead | The single most important anti-fraud document; the beneficiary name must match the registered entity |
A supplier who produces these within a day is running an organised export operation. One who cannot produce any of them, or who sends a bank account in a different name, has told you something decisive regardless of how good the price was.
Payment instructions naming a person or an unrelated company. This is the most common expensive failure in the trade, and it is entirely avoidable.
Urgency manufactured around a price that expires today. Real capacity constraints are explainable; artificial ones are not.
A supplier who agrees to every specification without asking a question has usually not read it and will source whatever is cheapest.
Refusing third-party pre-shipment inspection at your cost is difficult to justify for a genuine shipment.
A registered address that is a residence or a shared office is not disqualifying, but it should be explained.
No landline, no company email domain and no verifiable premises is a pattern worth pausing on for a first order.
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