Whats the difference between My Global Trade Data and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)?
My Global Trade Data is an online tool application, which displays transactional data available from FedEx Trade Networks business applications. My Global Trade Data allows users to view their own transactional data for brokerage and transportation shipments, create reports with that data, create Customs documentation, and research Customs issues. By contrast, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a method for communicating data in a predefined standard format with the assistance of a translator. The translator function can read data generated by one application and put it into a predefined standard format that can be read by another translator for loading to an application. This translation occurs automatically. FedEx Trade Networks can receive data from customers’ applications for use in our applications and send data from our applications for use in customers’ applications. EDI by itself does not allow for the viewing of or reporting on data contained in the message. A customer who w
