Practical guides on importing and sourcing from China to Bangladesh – covering freight, customs, suppliers, quality control and trade costs from the DE International team.
What a produce pack house does and contains, station by station from shaded receiving through grading, pre-cooling, packing and cold holding; the power, water and hygiene services behind the line; how to size it to a crop’s seasonal peak; and the mistakes that waste the investment.
Why how fast food crosses the zone of maximum ice crystal formation, not the final storage temperature, determines texture and drip loss; how sharp freezing, blast rooms, plate freezers, tunnels and IQF compare; and the mistakes that turn a blast freezer into a slow one.
What General Average is, how it applies to a modern container ship fire or grounding, the York-Antwerp Rules, what happens to your container and the deposit or bond you are asked for, and why marine cargo insurance makes it a non-event.
A practical guide to shipping marks on export cartons from China: the main mark format, ISO 780 handling symbols, dangerous-goods marking, the mistakes that cause lost boxes and slow Customs checks, and how to agree marking with your supplier.
How a Forwarder’s Cargo Receipt differs from a bill of lading: title vs receipt, why buying agents issue FCRs, how the payment-security model changes between LC and FCR shipments, what to check before paying against an FCR, and how it clears at destination.
Why international wire payments to Chinese suppliers arrive short: how correspondent banking works, what the OUR, SHA and BEN charge codes decide, where deductions happen, the hidden exchange spread, and how to keep a shortfall from becoming a dispute.
What an Authorised Dealer (AD) bank is, the steps it runs through a Bangladesh import from LCA registration to remittance reconciliation, why it needs your bill of entry, what the relationship costs, and how to choose and manage an AD branch.
The graded levels of Customs physical examination in Bangladesh, from a light marks-and-numbers first check to a full destuff, why a declaration is routed to the red channel, and how to prepare a container so the check clears fast.
How non-intrusive inspection (container X-ray scanning) works at Chattogram: where it sits in ASYCUDA clearance, what officers look for in a scan image, what triggers an unexpected scan, and how to stop it becoming a delay.
A plain guide to the bill of entry in Bangladesh: what it declares, the IM4 to IM9 procedure codes, the data and documents it needs, how it flows through ASYCUDA World, and the errors that cause port delays.