More and more products and packages being shipped by international Express companies from China to overseas countries along with the close connection between China and other countries in the world. Unlike native express delivery, there are certain things need to pay attention when packages shipping from China. Lots of foreigners have no ideas about the China international express delivery shipping and do not know how to choose a reliable China international shipping company, thus encountered lots of unnecessary troubles. The following are 11 tips for China international freight express delivery shipping for foreigners as a reference.
1. Shipping fee. EMS express shipping fee charges definitely in accordance with international cargo weight (actual weight), and DHL, TNT, UPS and FedEx shipping fee charges in accordance with the actual weight and volume weight (L * W * H / 5000) to select the heavier one, but the continual weight of DHL and UPS charges much lower than EMS after discount. For example, if you want to ship a 5kg package from China to UK, usually EMS shipping fee costs around 100 RMB per kilogram while DHL only charges around 60 RMB per kilogram after discount (limited to general cargo, it is non-brand goods). So you can use DHL, UPS and other shipping delivery company service if you ship heavy packages with small volume then, use EMS delivery instead if you send light weight with big volume package.
2. Find a China international shipping agent instead of contacting directly with EMS, DHL. You maybe a small customer for them and you won’t get any discounts from them. Looking for a reliable shipping agent, there are lots of China international shipping agents on Taobao, you can find one and pay with Alipay, and it is more secure.
3. You can use your own carton box if you use EMS International Express. You can also use bigger carton box than the largest EMS dedicated shipping cartons. For example, we usually use the carton box with 52 * 56 * 58cm specifications. If you use a small box which might take lots of boxes for all the goods to be loaded, you will be charged lots of times first weight fee, because every carton box is to be considered a first weight, unless you found the EMS agent that doesn’t calculate first weight or your goods reach a certain amount.
4. You cannot send too many goods in one international express delivery, it will easily to be recognized as commodity to charge tariffs by the Customs of the destination country. Although there have been several cases of bulk goods are not being checked by customs, but that’s just lucky. There are two methods to arrange the shipment to avoid checked by the customs if you have lots of goods shipped from China. The first method is to get a few more cities addresses that not far from the city address for shipments, you can send to different addresses in the same city. The second method is shipping goods within a few days, shipping part of them each day, usually once around 2 large boxes.
5. The international freight express does not require you to show something like invoice or export documents, which is needed for sea shipping. So you do not have to worry about the international express shipping will encounter many problems, you just need to determine how much money need to pay for the shipping fee.
6. International shipping includes express, air and sea. Sea shipping is the cheapest one and charged by volume in general. Shipping to the United Kingdom for example, some charges 100 US dollars a cubic, some charges 150 US dollars a cubic, please note that, the sea shipping not only charges shipping fee, but also charges customs fees, loading fee and even unpacking fee etc., but these do not account much money. Air shipping to Britain generally charges 50 RMB one kilogram or so, the prices are generally cheaper than Express, but if you have large volume of goods, then it is charged by volume, like I have 2 cubic meters of cargo, equivalent to going 333 kg (the actually weight is less than 100 kg), and the air shipping fee charges more than 14,000 RMB (including customs fees), which is chilling. As for the shipping speed, with the toes can think of, sea is the slowest shipping, usually to the United Kingdom up to 30 days. Air cargo and express speed are similar, generally it takes about 5 days if it doesn’t need to move from city to city. In addition, the air freight is not for home delivery, while express is door to door delivery, please bear in mind.
7. Most EMS agents charge for the first weight, if you have lots of good need to shipping from China to overseas, you can check offline and online to find a few agents to compare the shipping fee. Among the companies do not charge the first weight, usually the package box should over 10 kg, you have to ask before shipment in case it is troublesome to pull over and pull back the cargo based on the shipping fee.
8. If you have 80 kg of goods within 11 boxes, EMS agent is not charge the shipping fee based on the total weight of 80 kilograms, instead they will charge each box. For example they will charge 6 kg if you have a box weight 5.8 kg which is okay to understand. It is a bit depressed they charge 6 kg while your box only has 5.1 kg. (General formal international EMS agent charges in accordance with 5.5 kg, if it is particularly cheap EMS agency may be received by 6 kg) According to this way the shipping fee is much higher than 80 kilograms, just bear in mind or you might lose money. In addition, it gives us a lesson that we have to be weight each box before shipment, once found a box is over 5.1 kg, we should try to reduce to 4.9 kg or 4.8 kg to maximize save the freight shipping fee from China to overseas countries.
9. Goods are divided into general cargo and imitation brand goods; general cargo refers to the origin of the generic brand goods in China, the general cargo international express freight shipping free is much cheaper than imitation brand goods shipping. In addition, general cargo has lower chance checked by foreign customs tariff than imitation brands. The imitation brands belong to sensitive items which you can check the tutorial How to ship sensitive items from China if you need to ship imitation brands from China.
10. Each of the international express delivery companies has their own advantages, some companies are cheaper to shipping goods from China to western Europe, and some are cheaper to shipping from China to Eastern Europe, that’s the price advantage, while some companies have advantages in customs clearance, some have delivery speed guaranteed. You can take all the shipping companies into consideration before shipping.
11. As for the declared value. You can take a look at the customs policy first and try to declare the goods value lower than the amount need to pay customs fee, generally $30. Why $30? Usually the customs in west countries will check strictly on the packages value declared more than $30. If you declare high value, the receipt will be charged high customs fee and the check will be strict during customs clearance, then the receipt will need to provide business invoice. Hence you can find a China international shipping agent to help you declare.
These are the 11 tips for packages shipping from China to overseas countries, please feel free to leave your feedback if you have any questions.
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