Customs clearance mode for cross-border e-commerce import business

(a) Express customs clearance
After confirming the order, the foreign supplier will send the goods directly from overseas to the consumers through international express delivery. No customs documents.
Advantages: Flexible, when there is business delivery, do not need to stock in advance;
Disadvantage: With other mail Express mixed together, the efficiency of logistics customs clearance is low, the cost will rise rapidly when the quantity is large;
Suitable for: Small amount of business, occasional sporadic order phase.
(b) Customs clearance (first order, re-delivery)
Businesses will be a number of goods sold in a unified packaging, through international logistics to the domestic bonded warehouse, e-commerce enterprises for each commodity for customs clearance procedures, after the customs inspection release, by the e-commerce enterprises commissioned by the domestic courier delivery to the hands of consumers. Each order is accompanied by a customs document.
Advantages: Flexible, do not need to prepare in advance, relative to express customs clearance, logistics Customs clearance efficiency is higher, the overall logistics cost is reduced (for Zhengzhou, the collection mode does not need inspection)
Disadvantages: The need to complete packaging operations overseas, high overseas operating costs, and from overseas shipments, logistics time is slightly longer
Fit: A fast-growing phase of business with multiple orders per week
(c) The preparation of customs clearance (pre-stocking, after the order)
Merchants will be foreign goods in bulk stocking to the customs under the supervision of bonded warehouses, consumer orders, e-commerce enterprises according to order for each item of customs clearance procedures, in bonded warehouses to complete veneer and packaging, after customs clearance, by the e-commerce enterprises commissioned by the domestic courier delivery to the hands of consumers. Each order is accompanied by a customs document.
Advantages: In advance batch stocking to the Bonded warehouse, the international logistics costs the lowest, there are orders, can immediately from the Bonded warehouse shipments, customs clearance efficiency is the highest, can respond to after-sales service requirements, user experience the best.
Disadvantage: The use of bonded warehouses have warehousing costs, stocking will occupy the funds.
Application: At the stage of large business scale and stable business volume. Can reduce the purchase cost through the large quantity order or the advance order, may gradually transition from the air transport to the sea to reduce the international logistics cost, or uses the pledge supervision financing to solve the stock problem which the stocking causes.

Customs clearance mode for cross-border e-commerce import business