Trade Guides
Long guides for buying industrial chemicals from China. Each one follows a real order from the first quote to the goods leaving the port. They suit a buyer on the first container, and the buyer on the hundredth.
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Dangerous Goods · 16 min read
IMDG Dangerous Goods from China: A Working Guide
Every DG class explained, the documentation chain a Chinese factory must produce, the carrier-rejection failure modes we have caught in twenty years, and what DG cargo actually costs versus general cargo.
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Importing · 18 min read
Importing Industrial Chemicals from China to the US: A Working Guide
Complete chain from factory selection to last-mile delivery. Twenty years of running this from Shanghai Pudong, written for a US importer about to ship their first container.
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Compliance · 15 min read
TSCA Compliance for First-Time Chemical Importers
What every US chemical importer must do to clear TSCA at entry. The Inventory lookup, the Section 5 PMN process, Section 8 reporting, CDR cycles, the 2016 Lautenberg amendments, and the practical step-by-step for a first container.
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