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Golarion doesn't have the industry to provide useful trade in materials and manufactured goods. Magic items aren't common enough that it would be worth the trip to acquire when the verthani can already make them themselves.
Also, Golarion is known to be Rovagug's cage. Most people don't want to go near.
Golarion is kind of a mess, and it's probably not advanced enough to justify the risks.
Short of natural ressources - which should be available elsewhere - and weird local specialties, there isn't that much to catch the attention if interplanetary traders.
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There may also be some lingering attitudes about Azlant and Earthfall ("Let them rot in their own Hell.").
If you read between the lines, skulks seem to be descendants of transplanted Verthani. Perhaps captured as slaves by planet-hopping Azlanti (who were pretty active on Akiton, for one).
The Prime Directive
Huh. I hadn't read that Dragonchess. Very interesting.
Where did you find this information ? I need to read it.
Compare the description of skulks (thin humanoids that can change the pigmentation of their skin at will) and the description of the vercites. Vercites are taller, but IIRC Verces has a slightly lower gravity than Golarion (and the vercite's lifestyle probably has better nutrition). Heck, look at the artwork (especially the "bulbous, mouse-like eyes" that skulks are drawn with).
Skulks were canonically introduced in Golarion as a descendants of escaped Thassilonian (who also inherited Azlanti habits of slavery, as well as magic) slaves in Xin-Shallast. It's a lot more likely that Azlanti enslaved groups of vercites than some random magical experimentation resulted in a race with almost exactly the same appearance and characteristics as one that existed on a planet within the same solar system that were known to have contact through various worldgates and interplanetary ships.