Practical guides on importing and sourcing from China to Bangladesh – covering freight, customs, suppliers, quality control and trade costs from the DE International team.
A warehouse fire does not just destroy stock. It can void an insurance claim entirely if basic fire safety compliance was never in place, turning a bad week into a business-ending one.
Goods brought in for a trade fair or as unsold samples are not meant to stay in Bangladesh permanently, and customs has a separate, less-understood process for exactly this situation.
Air cargo does not just get weighed and loaded. It passes through a formal security screening chain before an airline will accept it, and understanding that chain avoids avoidable delays.
Most e-commerce sellers default to air or courier because it feels faster and simpler. Past a certain order size, sea freight LCL quietly becomes the better math — if you plan around its slower timeline.
THC shows up as a separate line on almost every sea freight invoice, at both ends of the voyage, and confuses first-time importers more than any other freight charge. Here is what it actually covers.
Auto parts are among the trickiest cargo to ship well: mixed weights, oil residue, fragile electronics, and buyers who need the right part, not just any part, on the shelf fast.
Toys are cheap to make and easy to source, but they carry more compliance requirements per shipment than almost any other consumer category. Skipping them creates real liability, not just delay.
A clinic fridge that drifts two degrees overnight ruins a batch of vaccines without anyone noticing until the next shipment fails. Here is what separates medical cold storage from a commercial one.
A mini cold storage unit is a compressor, a set of panels, and a running electricity bill away from becoming a total loss. Here is what insurance for it actually needs to cover.
Very few container ships sail directly from China to Chattogram. Here is why your cargo almost always changes vessels along the way, and what that means for tracking and transit time.