Category Archives: Import & Export Guides

Block ice melts slow for the boat, flake ice chills fast under a roof, tube ice sits in between. How the three are made, where each belongs, and how to size the plant and ice store.

Tiles and sanitaryware are heavy, brittle, low-value and standard-regulated. How to pack, load, classify, value and door-to-door ship them from China to Bangladesh without a container of breakage.

The Bangladesh customs appeal ladder: adjudication, the Commissioner (Appeal), the Customs Excise and VAT Appellate Tribunal and the High Court — with the deadlines, deposits and the decision on whether to fight.

Dock-to-stock, inventory record accuracy, picking accuracy and inventory turns — the handful of warehouse measures an import business can track on a spreadsheet and act on.

Bangladesh Customs lets you lodge a bill of entry in ASYCUDA World before the ship arrives. What pre-arrival processing does, what it cannot do, and the document discipline it needs.

The shipper’s letter of instruction is the brief every transport document is copied from. What it contains, who signs it, and why importers should send a pre-filled template upstream.

Sea-air moves cargo by ocean to Dubai or Colombo and flies the last leg — faster than sea, cheaper than air. The routing, the shipments it suits, and the documentation across two legs.

SI, VGM, CY and doc cut-offs decide whether your container sails. What each one is, the order they fall in, and what being shut out actually costs a China–Bangladesh shipment.

Why a Western NDA fails in China, what Non-disclosure, Non-use and Non-circumvention each cover, and how to make an NNN agreement a Chinese court will actually enforce.

How tooling charges, T1/T2 trial rounds, mould ownership clauses and shot-life ratings work in a China OEM order — and what to sign before you pay the tooling invoice.