Why importing from Hong Kong more customs-friendly than from mainland China?
- Hong Kong export advantage to US and EU countries:
1. Lower Customs restriction
- Customs act more flexible to parcels importing from Hong Kong.
As Hong Kong has long been reputated as the most advance export/re-export center in the world. We are not only exporting Made in China products, but also playing the role of middle-man by re-exporting tones of Japan/South-east Asia/Australia/India/etc goods to USA and European countries. In addition to Hong Kong straight inspection policies on goods imported from China, and developed legal policies on products export to overseas, EU & US customs departments give credit to goods from Hong Kong.
Those trading advantages highly reduce the opportunities for our parcels being inspected or uphold by foreign customs departments, than other developing countries.
- Lower import tariffs to Made In Hong Kong goods.
EU countries place lower tariffs to parcels stated goods made in Hong Kong and export from Hong Kong. Some EU countries even have NO tariffs on parcels of Spls/Glf made in Hong Kong. US have low VAT to Hong Kong exports.
2. Better Customs clearing infrastructure
- Courier with their own Customs clearing team (esp. for EU countries).
Hong Kong as a well-developed export center, some of our local courier companies have their own customs clearing teams, those are located in US and EU countries, to make sure parcels could be safely and fastly cleared. Sometimes they can help to arrange supplementary English documents/inv.
With their help, we dont need to always separate big order to small parcels for postage. It highly reduce inconvenience and time spent.
China EMS and most of the local couriers do not have own customs clearing teams overseas.
- Able to retrieve returning parcel.
Upholded parcels could be pended at customs warehouse forever if nobody contact for parcel returning. Statistic shows that most of the un-retrieved parcels are post from mainland China. We/our courier are able to help to retrieve returning parcel, and it is 100% successful so far.
3. Lower transportation cost
Hong Kong has excellent infrastructure on goods export, courier cost comparatively low.
For 20pcs blouse to Europe (around 6kgs), China EMS cost US$120~300, Hong Kong EMS cost US$70.
Reference:
China EMS postage fee (in RMB)
Hong Kong EMS postage fee (in HKD)
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