Many e-commerce sellers, especially those cross-border ones, cannot avoid shipping their products to different countries and districts, containing many steps and procedures. For convenience and insurance, some sellers choose to contract and outsource the logistics of their products to freight forwarders or sourcing agents.With development, it has formed professional logistics service providers, like 3PL, 4PL [...]
Customs inspection is an indispensable and important part of import or export clearance. No one can 100% guarantee that shipments won't be inspected by customs. So, it is essential to get a good knowledge of customs inspections. In this post, I explain it from 8 points as follows.What is customs inspection?How do customs inspections work?What [...]
In international trade, freight forwarders play an essential role. When you want to ship your goods to your country, you will definitely think about finding a reliable freight forwarder to help you arrange shipment. Because international shipping is quite a complex process. The following article will help you understand forwarders better. Let's take a look.What [...]
In international transportation, you will be exposed to many terminologies related to shipping, documents, customs declaration, and so on. You may be puzzled by these shipping terms composed of several English words because you do not know what they really mean and when you need them. Therefore, here is a list of some common shipping [...]
If you sell products in European markets, you must know something about CE certification in EEA. But the CE marking is no longer widely applicable to products sold in the UK market after Brexit, which is replaced by the new UKCA certificate.This post today will tell you the differences between CE and UKCA marking, certification [...]
Product certifications are necessary for normal sales, and some sales platforms, like Amazon, have strict regulations on product certification. But different countries and markets have different requirements on certifications for each type of product.For example, the FCC certification introduced in this post today is required in the USA market. Whether you're new or experienced, knowing [...]
The NDA or confidentiality agreement is widely used. Here we focus on the application of confidential agreements in global trading. When manufacturing a new product or customization in China, more buyers request NNN agreements rather than NDA. Why? Today's post reveals the difference between NDA and NNN agreements and covers the following significant aspects. What [...]
In international trade, when you negotiate and communicate with your seller, you will definitely use trade terms, such as EXW, FOB, CIF, etc. You may be overwhelmed by these 3-letter incoterms. Because you don't know what they mean in shipping, what you and the seller are responsible for, and which one you should choose from [...]
Make an Innovative Product without Mold Open? (90% Cost Saved) Many imaginative sellers want to develop unique products that nobody else sells, but this is a tough way for most sellers to realize.There are lots of clients asking us to develop brand new products. Actually, we won't help our clients develop or customize products blindly before calculating customization [...]
If you want to import or export goods, each of your products will have an HS code. HS codes are crucial in international trade because you need to use them to declare your products to customs. However, in actual business practice, it's common to see mistakes in declaring HS codes to customs, which leads to [...]
