How To Avoid LCL Shipment Traps When Importing from China

[@bernadettehabkouk9817]

Fantastic video, we need more videos like this to educate importers. Excellent work La Chang! 👏🏻👏🏻

[@leafrobinson5735]

Hola La, Gracias for your vids... For someone starting from Book 1, Chapter 1, Page 1, your vids very much help to part the clouds to shed some light into the logistics processes. Simply from your advice to negotiate FOB as opposed to CIF may have already saved us from some significant losses.

[@lachangaustralia]

Super excited that you find value in our content. It makes the process worthwhile!

[@ThinkGlobalLogistics]

We are glad this video helped you out! If there are any questions you have for us regarding logistics let us know and we can make a video about it.

[@shauna9437]

Awesome video mate

[@ThinkGlobalLogistics]

Thanks for the kind words, Shaun!

[@josedelucia9904]

Good pieces of advice! thank you

[@ThinkGlobalLogistics]

Glad you found it helpful José!

[@nicoleburke2426]

Thank you so much for this video very informative

[@ThinkGlobalLogistics]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ChimsOjc-jj1hd]

Instructive

[@KBS_ar]

What is the correct process to safely and cheaply buy home finishing products from China? (Sanitary wares, electrical fixtures, wall panels and floor panels) 4 hunging toilets 4 hunging basins 4 basin mixers 4 shower mixers 75 COB lights 300m2 wall panels 200m2 floor panels/parque LCL 16cbm/ half 20ft container 300kg Alibaba Shenzhen seaport Jeddah seaport I can hire a Saudi customs clearance agent I can hire a person to transport the products from Jeddah seaport to my home I want a company that collects my products from many Alibaba suppliers to a warehouse in China then ship all of my products to my seaport. (This is my problem, what’s the correct, safe and cheap solution?)

[@ThinkGlobalLogistics]

Hi Patience, This question requires a detailed answer. If you head to our website www.tgl.co you can book an obligation free consultation with one of our staff. They will be able to help provide you with information on the best course of action. Thanks!

[@lachangaustralia]

Hey Patience here are my words of advice for you, not all ALIBABA suppliers has the right to export which means you will need to find a trading company to act as an intermediary and have all the suppliers fall under that entity. Secondly the costs of collecting, consolidating and then move it in a container can costs hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Have you done a cost comparison analysis with local suppliers? Thirdly, after you have done all the above checking and still think it is worth going forward then you should start by finding a LOCAL freight forwarder at your end to help you from start to finish! This will be the only way you can get a true picture of all the COSTs upfront and accurately. Do not think by you doing some leg work and breaking the process up that you will save money this is never the reality in this situation and you end up losing control of the process, waste time doing things that isnt going to give you the saving you think will acheive. And finally right now given the state of shipping crisis around the world, nothing is cheap and especially when you have multiple suppliers and wanting it all to be managed smoothly and arriving safely you should not be seeking CHEAP as a criterior. No one is going to handle this one off shipment cheapily if they want to handle it at all. I hope the above doesnt scare you off but please understand these are realities which you will need to face. Cheers

[@KBS_ar]

@@ThinkGlobalLogistics Thanks

[@hedy664]

how to contact you? I am a freight forwarder from China.

[@lRAQl]

Hi, Some say that some countries, will deal with LCL containers as a single shipment, so that certificate of origin, and all other documents that are needed by the importer, will be taken care of by the shipping company. That's because some logistics companies will ship multiple small importers' shipments inside one container (LCL) and it wouldn't make sense to have each and every box inside that container with documents. Is this true?

[@lachangaustralia]

No! separate shipments belong to a different importer will need to have its own documents for import customer purposes. The only time that this may be exempt is what was called the "remail" program where a bulk shipment contains hundred or thousands of small parcels that are pre-labelled with local post office postage and addressed directly to a final consumer this is for and intended for things such as subscriptions like physical magazines. However not 100% if this program still exists in Australia as I do believe this program was cancelled. Not sure about other countries. However going to my first point for any commercial shipment B2B all cargo must have it own paperwork belonging to each and every unique entity.