Practical guides on importing and sourcing from China to Bangladesh – covering freight, customs, suppliers, quality control and trade costs from the DE International team.
Floor stacking is free until the cartons at the bottom start deforming. Here is the actual trade-off between racking and floor storage, and how to tell which stage your business is at.
Classic per-order dropshipping runs straight into Bangladesh customs friction. Here is why most successful local sellers quietly switched to bulk import instead, and what that actually involves.
Day-old chicks survive roughly 72 hours without feed or water thanks to their residual yolk sac — which is exactly why this shipment category runs on IATA rules ordinary air cargo never touches.
Medical and dental equipment carries logistics risks that ordinary cargo does not — from radiation clearance on X-ray units to permits that must be secured before the shipment even leaves China.
Submit an inaccurate or late VGM and your container can be refused loading entirely. Here is what the rule actually requires and how the two allowed weighing methods work.
Guangzhou is the transport hub, but the real wholesale markets for furniture, lighting and building materials sit in satellite towns nearby. Here is what a sourcing trip actually looks like.
Alibaba and Global Sources solve the same problem in different ways. Here is how the two platforms actually differ, and when Bangladeshi importers should use one, the other, or both.
Floor-stacked cartons are how most small importers start. The moment inventory outgrows that, the racking choice made next affects picking speed, damage rates, and warehouse rent for years.
A cold room or reefer container only protects perishable cargo while it is inside them. The packaging around the product itself is what protects it during every gap in between.
When one purchase order arrives in several shipments instead of one, customs clearance stops being a single straightforward event and becomes several smaller ones, each with its own risk.