July 2026

Ship from China to UK: VAT, Duty & Post-Brexit Customs Explained   Thousands of UK firms order goods from Chinese factories each year anticipating a simple transaction: pay the supplier, wait for the container, sell the product. Then comes the customs bill and the numbers don’t match anybody’s quotes. The combined effect of Import VAT, […]

Section 301 + Section 122: Decoding the New China-US Tariff Stack   When transporting goods between China and the United States in 2026, the duty bill on a single container no longer comes from one line item. It’s a stack — a base duty rate, a China-specific Section 301 surcharge that’s been piling up since

How Much Tariff Will You Really Pay Shipping from China to the US in 2026?   If you ask ten importers what the duty rate is on a shipment from China today, you’ll probably get 10 different replies, and none of them will be inaccurate. With the Supreme Court having struck the IEEPA reciprocal tariffs

Ship from China to USA 2026: The Complete De Minimis Elimination Guide   If you have transported anything from China to an American customer in the past year, you know the rules changed under you. The $800 de minimis exemption that previously enabled low-value packages glide into the U.S. duty-free and paper-free is dead, and

What Nobody Tells You About Shipping to Smaller European Countries Like Greece, Croatia or Slovenia   Most cross-border shipping recommendations are written for Germany, France and the Netherlands, and then quietly assume the rest of the EU is the same. It does not. Once a shipment leaves the big four or five markets, the rules

China to Saudi Arabia: Why the Jeddah Port Route Is Gaining Ground on Dubai     For more than ten years the fastest mental route from a Chinese manufacturing to a Saudi customer ran through Dubai. Jebel Ali, the Middle East’s largest container complex, handled the bulk of Asia-Gulf traffic, processed it and forwarded it

How to Ship Hazardous Goods from China — and Which Ports Will Actually Accept Them   Every year thousands of containers filled with completely legal, perfectly beneficial cargo are turned away from Chinese ports for one reason: somewhere in the product there is a battery, an aerosol, a caustic liquid or a chemical compound that

Shipping from China to Mexico: NAFTA Is Gone — Here’s What Actually Governs Your Costs Now   If you’re still planning China-to-Mexico shipments as if NAFTA were the rulebook, you’re working from a map that’s six years out of date. NAFTA was replaced by the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) in July 2020, and in 2026

Why Oversized Cargo to the Netherlands Often Clears Faster Than Smaller Shipments     A forty-foot flat rack laden with a wind turbine blade comes off a vessel in Maasvlakte, is scanned, receives a green light and is on a low-loader heading inland within two days. A pallet of consumer products headed to a fulfilment

LCL Shipping to Italy: Why Consolidation Hubs Make or Break Your Delivery Timeline     Ask every importer who has shipped merchandise out of China into Italy on a smaller than container load basis and they will tell you the same thing, the ocean trip is rarely the thing that keeps them up at night.