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Let’s follow an e-commerce business owner to learn how we accelerate border clearance at a lower cost while enhancing customs compliance.
E-commerce businesses often struggle with two major things:
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Repeat business from consumers
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Maintaining healthy margins
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Meet Rachel at Fashion Loft, she owns a U.S.-based e-commerce business, and she’s looking for a way to get her products into the hands of her consumers while saving time and money.
Fashion Loft
Rachel
e-Retailer
Meet the players involved in helping Rachel reach her goals:
• Mei from Nova Thread Studio
A Chinese apparel manufacturer for Rachel and thousands of other e-commerce companies overseas
• Lin from Interlink Logistics
Mei’s Forwarder/Consolidator
• Josh from Livingston e-Commerce™
Rachel’s Customs Broker
Click Mei, Lin or Josh to learn more about how they help Rachel
Lin
Forwarder/ Consolidator
Josh
Customs Broker
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Mei
Manufacturer
Learn how Lin helps Mei and Rachel
Lin advises Mei on building consolidated loads to get them into the U.S. as fast and cheaply as possible, to the benefit of Rachel and other e-commerce companies like hers.
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Lin also helps Rachel by educating her on consolidating shipments from Mei and offering guidance on other products she sources from manufacturers outside the U.S.
Thanks to Lin’s advice, Mei knows to pre-package and pre-label Rachel’s parcels in order to help Rachel save money on duty and fees and get her products to her online consumers faster.
Mei wants to get her goods to North America as fast and cost-effectively as possible, including to Rachel from Fashion Loft, among other overseas e-commerce businesses that Mei sells to.
Learn how Mei helps Rachel
Through Lin’s partnership with Livingston, Rachel can take advantage of the Livingston e-Commerce solution to save her time and money on customs clearance.
Lin partners with Josh at Livingston e-Commerce to ensure a seamless customs process for Rachel’s parcels.
Learn how Josh helps Lin and Rachel
Josh communicates closely with Lin throughout the entire clearance process, to ensure Rachel’s parcels clear customs efficiently.
To set up Rachel’s shipment, Mei pre-packages and pre-labels Rachel’s parcels.
Thanks to Lin, Mei knows to create consolidated loads for Rachel’s shipment, instead of creating 30 individual shipments. This helps Rachel save money on customs duties and fees and gets her products to her online consumers faster.
Now that Rachel’s packages have been consolidated, she is able to leverage Livingston’s end-to-end e-Commerce solution.
Rachel’s Section 321 low-value shipments will save her duty and fees by using:
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ACE eManifest
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Her parcels that are valued at US$800 or less can enter the U.S. duty-free, including Partner Government Agencies (PGA) regulated shipments.
For use when shipping directly into the U.S. by air.
Using Entry Type 86 for Rachel’s shipments means:
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She avoids the need for an Express Consignment Carrier Facility (ECCF), including high customs inspection fees.
Entry Type 86
For use when shipping into the U.S. by truck.
Using ACE eManifest for Rachel’s shipments means:
She doesn’t have to worry about customs clearance into the U.S. and can avoid having to fill out tariff classifications for all of her products.
Rachel’s parcels are now ready to be shipped. By choosing to ship directly to the U.S., Rachel can take advantage of Entry Type 86.
She avoids the need for an Express Customs Facility, including high customs inspection fees.
While Rachel’s packages are in flight, a team of experts at Livingston work on the customs clearance for her parcels.
No need for an Express Consignment Carrier Facility (ECCF), Livingston e-Commerce’s advanced customs clearance technology simplifies parcel classification, validation, and formatting.
Easy automation and integration, Livingston has flexible data integration options giving Rachel the ability to easily integrate her border clearance information and fully automate her entry filings, for a smoother and faster clearance process.
Fees are high at ECCFs due to the onsite U.S. Customs officer that has to process all of the parcels.
After processing, the shipment is deconsolidated into individual parcels and delivered to Rachel’s online consumers using express couriers.
Shipping goods directly to the U.S. is one option, but it’s not always the fastest or the cheapest.
Shipping to the U.S. through Canada is a great alternative option.
Since Rachel has customers located in the U.S. and Canada, Lin often advises her to ship goods to the U.S. through Canada, with the help of Livingston.
Shipping to the U.S. through Canada can often be faster and more cost-effective due to greater flight availability and higher flexibility in last-mile routing.
Shipping to the U.S. through Canada
This route allows Rachel to file her information to U.S. Customs using the carrier eManifest application.
This is a huge relief to Rachel because it means she doesn’t have to worry about customs clearance into the U.S. and can avoid having to fill out tariff classifications for all of her products.
U.S. eManifest
Rachel’s shipment of pre-sold and pre-labelled parcels arrive in Canada, move into a bonded warehouse and are loaded onto a U.S.-bound truck.
Pre-sold and pre-labelled parcels
Allows for the value of goods at US$800 or less to enter into the U.S. duty-free, saving Rachel money.
Bonded warehouse
Despite the initial appearance of added time, Livingston provides access to strategically located warehouses near the Canada-U.S. border that can offset logistics costs and routing time for Rachel’s parcels.
Meanwhile, the team at Livingston arranges for the shipment to enter the U.S. using Section 321 eManifest release.
Josh communicates closely with the carrier company on the release status of the shipments to make sure the truck crosses the border smoothly.
The shipment is deconsolidated into individual parcels, given online tracking numbers and delivered to Rachel’s online consumers using express couriers.
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