As individual order e-commerce grows, so is the involvement from the manufacturing industry. Manufacturers use online order processing to enable direct sales or sales on behalf of retailers. Cross border e-commerce shipments are increasingly transitioning to ocean shipments.
What’s required for e-commerce include efficient high volume parcel import processes to the USA. Using independent express and cargo clearance facilities, manufacturers can meet the delivery expectations of American consumers and businesses.
Jet Worldwide helps retailers, manufacturers, postal authorities, and transporters develop import processes to the USA and Canada that include:
- Duty free clearance (CBP Section 321),
- New Section 321 type 86 for 2020
- Pre-clearance via express consignment clearance facilities (ECCF),
- Economy cargo parcel clearance (Cargo Freight Station - CFS),
- Multiple ports of entry for low cost ground delivery in 1-3 days
- Parcel import and clearance to Canada
Contact our team to explore the options for high volume parcel importing to the USA: info@jetworldwide.ca
Floating Inventory versus Flying Sales
Traditional manufacture and logistics processes meet the need of single mega-large orders of goods that are sent to - and resold by -retailers and distributors. Economies of large scale production and shipping are offset by inventory that is never in balance, often in transit, and warehoused prior to final sale.
Using Section 321 type 86 entries, e-commerce merchants can clear e-commerce orders shipped via individual parcels shipped via ocean freight. Contact our team for information on clearing ocean freight shipments via duty free section 321 processes.
Today, the on-line market place is aggregating demand via mass individual orders. Manufacturers can complement existing processes with parcel logistics processes that can scale to thousands of orders per day. Goods can be manufactured and shipped on demand. High margin niche products can be developed without worry of excess inventory.
And.. if a niche product grows, it can then be transferred to the traditional large order/ ocean shipping processes. E-commerce parcel import complements existing logistics processes to the USA.
The online marketplace demands reliable parcel import processing that includes weekend and holiday clearance without delay. Advanced processes ensure injection into a domestic delivery system the same day as arrival.
The standards of parcel import clearance are getting higher every day and are being challenged by the exponential growth in demand. The demand of on-line retailers include keeping items in stock. Traditional logistics includes slow floating containers of either too much or not enough inventory.
Using cross border e-commerce parcel logistics processes, retailers and their manufacturing partners can better their supply. It also allows expanding the product offer without an increase in inventory.
Orders are managed and shipped in real time. Unexpected spikes in demand are more efficiently through flexible manufacture processes and express parcel shipping.
UPDATED PARCEL IMPORT PROCESSES IN 2022
US customs / CBP is conducting tests to authorize a new Section 321 de minimis entry process by creating a new entry type (entry type “86” ) through their automated (ACE) system. The ACE Entry Type 86 will create a way to submit low-valued shipments without an ECCF (see ECCF explanation below). It will also be away to clear low value shipments that are subject to approval of other government agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Customs has been working on "one window clearance" processes that incorporates the requirements of other government agencies. In customs parlance, they are referred to as "Partner Government Agencies" or PGA's. Type 86 extends the "one window clearance" processes to include low value section 321.
Jet Worldwide helps European and Asian manufacturers succeed in international e-commerce by introducing new parcel logistic processes to the USA. There are a whole lot of pieces that have to come together to get e-commerce right and parcel import to the USA is a key element to understand and implement.
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