What is a Buyer’s Consolidation? Buyer’s Consolidations: Improving Landed Cost on LCL If you import and have multiple suppliers near a single origin port, your freight forwarder may have an opportunity to improve supply-chain efficiency by creating a...
HTS Lists of Implemented and Proposed Tariff Increases As a follow up to Trade War with China: An Importer’s Survival Guide, we’ve included the three lists of recently implemented and proposed tariff increases from Mainland China. Download Lists Below List...
Trade War with China: An Importer’s Survival Guide Unfortunately for many businesses in the USA, America finds itself in the position of fighting a “four front” trade war against Canada, Mexico, the entire European Union and, most significantly of all, China. That...
5 Steps to Effective Communication with Chinese Suppliers Global business can be tricky, especially when you are not familiar with your business partner’s culture. A normally friendly gesture used in American business can offend someone from another country while...
An Importer’s Guide to Chinese New Year It’s mid-February, nearing your shipment deadline, and your supplier in Shanghai hasn’t responded since your last email a week ago. While an entire country is celebrating, you’re in full panic-mode. Maybe you forgot or maybe you...
What Type of Freight Forwarder Is Right for You? Not all international freight forwarding providers are the same. For example, some freight forwarders are focused on offering the lowest prices. Other freight forwarders tout their technology above all else. Then there...
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