About us

Let us tell you what WorldCity’s ustradenumbers.com website offers and how it came to be.

Each month, we generate thousands of pages of export-import data for every U.S. airport, seaport and border crossing. Similarly, we generate thousands of pages for every country with which the United States trades. There are a similar but slightly smaller number of pages for more than 1,000 export commodities and more than 1,000 import commodities. In addition to seeing a limited amount of data here at no charge, a number of U.S. airports, seaports and border crossings make a great deal more information available here and on their websites.

We update that data monthly on their websites as well, when the U.S. Census Bureau releases the data that is collected by Customs and Border Protection. We also create videos, which we can customize to each port and even personalize them to a VIP list of prospects, supporters and others. These are updated monthly as well.

Participants in one of our official events.

Our founder, Ken Roberts, in one of our official events.

About us

How did we get here? Ken Roberts founded WorldCity in 1998, focused on the role of Miami in the global economy. Hence, the name WorldCity. For the first decade, WorldCity produced a newspaper and then monthly magazine for the multinational and trade-focused community in South Florida. Within one of our newspaper editions in the early years, we produced a map of the world showing where exports leaving South Florida went and where its imports originated and in what amount. That led to a poster, which led more question: What exports are going to Brazil? What imports are coming from France? Those questions led to our first annual Miami TradeNumbers publication in 2001.

In 2006, we began spreading our wings to other Customs districts around the country — to Los Angeles, to Houston and elsewhere.

At the same time, in Miami, we created a Who’s Here multinational database of more than 1,200 multinationals with an office in South Florida, most of them Latin America headquarters. These MNCs had headquarters in more than 50 countries with more than 70 overseeing $1 billion in sales from the local office. As we gathered more and more data, we created a number of regular events, or forums, for various slices of the multinational business community: Global Connections, Trade Connections, HR Connections, Marketing Connections, Government Affairs Connections, Corporate Social Responsibility Affairs Connections and the CEO Club.

As print faded, and as the internet took hold and digital content took over — remember, when the company was founded, not everyone was willing to put their email address on their business cards — we began our movement to the website you see today, working with U.S. airports, seaports and border crossings to provide them and you with relevant, update-to-date export-import data.

Digital storytelling made simple.