July 2026

Ship from China to Germany: EORI Number, What It Is and How to Get One   When you are importing goods from China to Germany, one document will make or break your customs clearance before your container even reaches the port: the EORI number. Without it, your declaration cannot be processed by German customs, your […]

Commercial Invoice Mistakes That Trigger Customs Holds in the UK   Every day of the week practically a container departs from Felixstowe or Southampton without a second glance and an identical container from the same factory sits in an inspection bay two berths over. The difference is seldom the product. It is almost always the

The Complete Document Checklist: Ship from China to USA Without Delays   A container on the dock at the Port of Los Angeles is running up demurrage costs by the hour, and nine times out of ten the underlying problem is one missing or mismatched piece of documentation. The de minimis exception was eliminated in

Ship from China to Amazon FBA Australia: GST and Import One Stop Shop     Amazon.com.au is one of the fastest-changing markets in the Asia-Pacific region and a regular stream of Chinese manufacturers and trading companies are rushing to get product into Amazon’s Australian fulfilment hubs. But the thrill of a new market often clashes

Consolidation Warehouses: Why US Sellers Are Ditching Direct-to-Consumer Shipping   For much of the previous decade, the fastest route to building a cross-border brand was also the simplest: Identify a product in China, list it online, and have a parcel carrier fly individual orders straight to American doorsteps. That playbook drove thousands of direct-to-consumer enterprises

Ship from China to Amazon FBA Canada: Customs Broker Requirements     “The easy part is getting a container of product out of a factory in Shenzhen or Ningbo. Most new FBA sellers in Canada underestimate the amount of work involved in getting that same merchandise lawfully allowed into Canada and stocked on an Amazon

Ship from China to Amazon FBA Germany: Pan-EU vs Local Fulfillment   It is still the largest Amazon marketplace in continental Europe, and for sellers shipping from China, it is frequently the first port of call before spreading throughout the rest of the EU. But shipping something from a facility in Shenzhen or Ningbo to

How Temu and Shein Changed Ship-from-China Rules for Everyone   For much of the last decade, the easiest way to develop a low-cost internet store was to source in China and ship directly to the customer’s door. A single pair of earrings, a phone case, a five-dollar kitchen gadget – none of these things required

Ship from China to Amazon FBA UK: Avoiding VAT Registration Traps   Every year new Chinese manufacturers and trade companies start to sell directly to British buyers through Amazon FBA, and every year a huge proportion of them fall into the same costly trap, expecting that the UK VAT rules apply to them in the

Ship from China to Amazon FBA USA: The 2026 Prep & Compliance Checklist     Shipping from China to Amazon FBA USA was never a straightforward point A to point B, but 2026 has made it a very different operation. Amazon ended in-house processing and labelling Jan. 1 and Washington has spent the last year