How to ship package from China would be the first question came out when foreigners would like to buy something from China. Actually package shipping from China isn’t that hard, the most convenient solution may search on Google or ask friends on social networks like Facebook and Quora. No matter which way you applied, there are basically three solutions to ship packages from China:
1. International courier service: Enter the official website of EMS, DHL, TNT, UPS and FedEx and submit your shipping request;
2. Taobao agent: ask them to purchase products for you and ship the goods directly to their warehouse to consolidate and ship for you;
3. International Courier service agent: ship the packages to their warehouse or ask them to pick up for you.
If you know pretty much about China, Search international shipping(国际快递) on Taobao and contact them directly, there are many advantages to search international shipping service on Taobao, for one thing you can check the user reviews and service credits directly, for another thing it is relatively safe to pay with Alipay. There is another more easy way to ship package from China if you use Wechat, search international courier service (国际集运) on wechat and select one forwarder company concentrates on international consolidation shipping from China.
How to save money when shipping packages from China
As we know the international courier shipping fee is relatively expensive among the 3 ways shipping packages from China, How to save money shipping packages from China? There are a few tips for foreigners to ship parcels from China to overseas countries.
1. Select international forwarder shipping agent to save shipping fee
Why? There is no forward shipping process for the international courier shipping companies like EMS, DHL, UPS, FedEx and TNT, but the shipping fee is charged on its official website and extremely expensive for individuals. While Taobao agent has less shipping discounts compare to forwarder shipping agent owing to the business volume, usually the international forwarder shipping agent offers 50% to 70% discount compare to the shipping fee on international express company official website.
2. Combine multiple packages into one shipment to save shipping fee
Unlike international courier service, forwarder shipping agent could merge and consolidate packages into one shipment. When you shopping on Taobao, you can make a list on the entire commodities and search on Taobao if there has discounts, second kill, group buy, free shipping promotions, the Chinese forwarder shipping agent will help you check, repack and consolidated the package into big one. Usually continue weight is only 1/5 of the first weight, thus you can save lots of first weight if you use consolidate shipping instead of using international express service ship them respectively.
3. Which international courier service is better to ship packages from China
Usually Chinese forwarder shipping agent suggest you to choose international express companies based on the destination countries, package weight and goods properties.
Green shipping lines
It refers to shipping lines restricted on good properties such as file green shipping line, batteries green shipping line as well as sensitive item shipping line, and shipping lines restrict shipping countries or regions like green shipping lines from China to EU and USA, China South Asia shipping line, China Middle Asia shipping line, China Japan shipping line etc. Generally the shipping fee of the green shipping line is relatively cheap and fast for delivery. If you have packages need to shipping from China, you may ask the the forwarder shipping agent whether they have green shipping lines from China to the destination country.
EMS
EMS has processing priority on the post office, customs and freight department; it doesn’t calculate volume weight, no remote shipping fee, no package return shipping fee and high custom clearance rate. If you want to ship package weight less than 21 kg with big volume weight as well as sensitive items like imitation brands, foods and drugs, EMS is your first choice.
Besides, EMS has advantages on shipping fee and delivery efficiency on packages shipping from China to Japan and Australia, custom clearance is a little slow for packages shipping from China to Brazil, Russia and other strict clearance regions. But EMS is unstable and a little slow compare to other international courier service, if you have precious or emergency or liquid, battery, powder goods shipping from China, do not select EMS.
DHL
DHL is a favorable general goods shipping channel by foreigners, although it is a little expensive it offers very good and stable delivery service. It’s the first choice of small packages, precious and emergency goods shipping from China and it is file green shipping line.
UPS FedEx
You can select UPS or FedEx with packages weight more than 21kg and 100 kg. Please pay attention to the additional fee like textile, remote area delivery fee etc.
In short, you can select international courier service based on the following conditions:
1. If you want to ship small package goods without delivery time restriction, we suggest you select EMS because the shipping fee from China to overseas countries is the cheapest;
2. If you have recruitments on delivery time, then you need check the destination countries such as shipping from China to North America, South America, and the United Kingdom. In these regions UPS and DHL are the fastest, but still there are differences between them:
a. Package weight less than 5.5kgs, DHL is better than UPS;
b. Package weight between 6 to 21kgs, UPS is superior to DHL;
c. Package weight between 21 to 100kgs, DHL is better than UPS;
d. Package weight more than 100kgs, UPS is superior to DHL.
3. FedEX and UPS are good at shipping from China to Americas and Japan, while TNT has absolute advantages shipping from China to Europe, West Asia as well as the Middle East, DHL is good at shipping from China to Japan, Southeast Asia and Australia.
For more details about the advantages and disadvantages of the international courier service please check how to choose international express courier delivery service shipping from China.
About custom clearance
Package description in details is very favorable for the rapid clearance. For instance you are shipping a dress from China; professional person will write 100% polyster knitted women’s dress instead of dress. Some countries have special reporting requirements, such as requiring the original commercial invoice; you need to specify the goods customs code, number, origin and so on.
The declare value is a little difficult, if the goods value is high, you may consider the shipping fee and customs fee, it’s highly suggest to consult customer service of the forwarder shipping agent.
About Sensitive items shipping from China
According to statistics, merchandise foreigners shopping the most on Taobao and Aliexpress are foods, clothes, shoes, bags, jewelry, household things, electronics, car accessories and adult products. Those all belongs to sensitive items. If you want to ship those things from China, EMS is your best choice. Usually there has high custom clearance rates for the dry goods, meat foods check rates usually around 1% to 2%, it will be detained once checked by the customs.
The imitation brand belongs to restriction items by most countries and regions, it will be confiscated once checked by customs, the US Customs will charge tax based on the genuine brand, Taiwan and other regions will return it back.
Personalized jewelry has small weight with high-value, it is easy to charge tariffs depending on the country policy, and you can send a small amount each time. In addition the jewelry has brand logo considered as imitation brand.
The risk shipping cosmetic from China is mainly the liquid or cream which belongs restricted items by freight security check, it will be returned once found ( it can be resend again after returned and there is no extra shipping fee if you use EMS. Please give up if the cosmetic packages being returned 3 times).
The baby doll also has protection of intellectual property, famous cartoon character belongs to restricted item, other international courier service will reject it except EMS, and you will save shipping fee owing to EMS doesn’t calculate volume weight.
The biggest concern on small home appliances shipping from China is the battery, the battery can be removed or without batteries can be shipped easily, fragile electronic products need to consolidate packaging before shipping, and the courier companies will not compensate for broken goods with impact packages.
About Package tracking
Once the packages delivered by the Chinese forwarder shipping agent, there will be a tracking number, you can track your package status and keep in touch with the agent in case anything happens. They will help you contact the international courier service.
After viewed all the tips above, package shipping from China isn’t hard at all, huh.
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