The Chinese tea culture has a long history, The Chinese Han nationality has a over 3000-year history drinking tea. Tea culture can not only mold character, besides, tea has a lot of medical value. Thus, not only the Chinese like drinking tea, but also many foreign friends like drinking green tea for daily life. As the quintessence of Chinese culture, it is a good choice to give tea as a gift. Many foreigners buy lots of green teas when they travel in China, but the green tea loss its original taste and color gradually, which means it cannot be stored for long time. Thus many foreigners starts to buy latest spring or autumn tea on Taobao to keep its quality. Shopping tea on Taobao Tmall store is easy but shipping from China to USA and other overseas countries is troublesome due to it’s sensitive items. In this article we will share the experience how to ship tea from China to USA as well as other countries.
According to staticstics, the tea sales amount is up to 8.8 billion RMB on Taobao in 2015. The following are the top 10 Tmall brand tea stores in 2016, foreigners can copy the chinese name of the store brands and search on Taobao to select the right tea brand.
| Taobao Tmall Tea Store Rank | Brands | Transaction index | Growth rate |
| 1 | 茶滋味 | 107,011 | 35.97% |
| 2 | 大益 | 70,136 | 10.78% |
| 3 | 仙茶园 | 49,308 | 49.43% |
| 4 | 广蕴 | 47,628 | 157.52% |
| 5 | 铁观音 | 47,027 | 5.10% |
| 6 | 普秀 | 44,884 | 7.46% |
| 7 | 安化黑茶 | 44,407 | 2.62% |
| 8 | 中茶 | 43,524 | 13.39% |
| 9 | 凤凰山 | 42,322 | 1% |
| 10 | 宇川 | 40,860 | 53.51% |
Also there are the Tmall Tea Store links:
茶滋味： https://shop64522961.taobao.com
大益： https://dayi.tmall.com
仙茶园： https://mxtieguanyin.taobao.com
广蕴： https://guangyun.tmall.com
铁观音： https://senzhoutea.taobao.com
普秀：https://puxiuchaye.tmall.com
安化黑茶： https://qlmhc.taobao.com
中茶： https://zhongcha.tmall.com
凤凰山： https://sxt1688.taobao.com
宇川： https://yuchuan.tmall.com
醉然香： https://zuiranxiang.tmall.com
艺福堂： https://yifutang.tmall.com
There are the most popular tea brand stores on Taobao and Tmall, foreigners can buy favorite tea on those stores directly. The next step is the shipping issue as we said tea belongs to food which is sensitive item shipping from China to overseas countries such as USA, CA and UK etc. There are lots for freight forwarder shipping service on Taobao, however mostly do not have English customer service or do not describe the China international shipping terms in details which easily make foreigners confused.
Here we talk a little bit about which are forbidden objects by international freight.
1. Tobacco and Liquor are forbidden to consign.
2. Drugs, such as marijuana, opium, morphine, heroin, K powder, cocaine are embargoed.
3. Inflammable and explosive, corrosive dangerous goods, such as alcohol, gasoline, thinner, kerosene, battery, flintstone.
4. Controlled knives, such as all kinds of guns, weapons or its components, fire equipments, steel pipe or other forms of sharp instruments
5. Hazardous chemicals, such as toxic pesticides, industrial waste, medical waste, biochemical items, strong alkali and acid, infectious items.
6. All kinds of liquid or powder, such as beverage, shower gel, foundation make-up, shampoo, perfume, toothpaste, flour, spray pesticide and other liquid or powder.
As we can see, tea is not on the list, we can deliver tea by Taobao shipping agent. But pay more attention that we’d better not deliver a large amount of tea, or the shipment may face the customs checking problem. Here we suggest an English shipping service on Taobao (https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z10.3-c.w4002-2443397689.71.MprOp2&id=536511624089), which is a high reputation Taobao shipping agents with 8 years experience. On the description part, you can see all the shipping terms and tips from China to USA and other countries in English. Then talk to the customer service with your questions about the shipping fee, delivery time, customs clearance issues and so on in details.
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