The Chinese economy is booming with online purchases leading the way. Chinese consumers are eager to purchase from high-quality Canadian and American online sellers.
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The Chinese economy is booming with online purchases leading the way. Chinese consumers are eager to purchase from high-quality Canadian and American online sellers.
The Asia pacific region is filled with world renowned manufacturers and suppliers that Canadian businesses rely on. The logistics of finding capacity for shipping to Canada continues to be a challenge.
Quebec and Canadian merchants can easily sell to France by developing direct shipping processes that include prepaid VAT, low unit costs and no consignee import fees.
Getting insurance for international shipments bring peace of mind for both shippers and importers but filing, proving and getting paid for claims can be difficult. It can be particularly challenging when insuring direct with the carriers - which is ironic because this integrated approach has intrinsic advantages. However, we find shippers most often disappointed by the carrier's insurance.
Being a new year, we thought it a good time to review the shifting paradigms we are expecting in 2022.All are ongoing trends and worthy of mention. Growth in the global economy will continue and inventory levels at the start of this year are still relatively low.Pandemic predicting is a bit of a crap shoot but the effects of omicron variant will be felt at least until Q2.
Topics: 2022 e-commerce logistics trends
Perhaps one of the biggest questions we get from new shippers concerns the calculation of volume weight. Even experienced shippers are sometimes surprised to find they are charged for a higher weight than what the shipment actually weighed.
The explosion of packages under the Section 321 de minimis threshold is the target of the US government as well as traditional American retailers. Most of these packages are generally from China, and specifically from Temu and Shein. Without duty, this "de minimis import process" is viewed by many as a loophole.However the import processes for the vast majority of these products seem to adhere to existing US Laws (I say "seem to" as there is a lack of data to know for sure).
The Office of Inspector General report shows the U.S. Postal Service racing to put significant resources towards what will certainly be another record for parcel delivery. While the actions show significant progress, the is an acknowledgement that the the resources may not be in place to handle the deluge of packages.
The United Kingdom is a the leading market for Canadian companies. Trade to the UK is made stronger by the UK -Canada Trade Continuity Act. Yet, free trade to the UK often does eliminate import fees. All consignments to the UK are subject to duty, value add tax and other import fees.
