2022 is coming to an end. For cross-border sellers, December is also the last month of the year that is busy and tense. Not only should you be busy with Christmas promotions, but you should also prepare for stocking during the Spring Festival holiday. But please note that new regulations in North America were released in December, which had a significant impact on some sellers. Let’s take a look at it next.
Prohibit the production, import and sale of 7 disposable plastic products in Canada
On June 22, 2022, Canada issued the SOR/2022-138 "Disposable Plastics Ban Regulations", prohibiting the production, import and sale of 7 disposable plastic products in Canada. With some special exceptions, the policy of prohibiting the manufacturing and import of these disposable plastics will officially come into effect in December 2022. Categories involved:
1, disposable plastic cashier bag Checkout bags
2, disposable plastic tableware Cutlery
3, disposable plastic soft straw Flexible straw64, disposable plastic catering utensils Foodservice ware
5, disposable plastic carrying collar Ring carrier
6, disposable plastic stirring rod Stir stick
7, disposable plastic straws Straw
, the Port of Houston, the Port of Houston, USA, collects container retention fees
According to foreign shipping, the Port of Houston, East container port of Houston, recently announced that it would charge cargo owners from December 1 to increase the speed of cargo circulation, and also authorize optional excess import retention fees. Covering two container terminals, Barbours Cut Terminal and Bayport Container Terminal.
The specific charging standard is: imported containers that are stranded for more than 8 days (including 8 days) in the port will be charged a detention fee of US$45 per container per day, and this fee will be charged directly to the beneficiary cargo owners (BCOs).
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The United States releases mandatory safety standards for preventing furniture dumping
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has approved a new federal safety standard "Clothing Storage Unit Safety Standard" (16 CFR 1261), and Preventing clothing storage units (CSU) from causing harm to children. The standard will officially take effect 180 days later. The CPSC pointed out that the latest mandatory safety standards are designed to prevent casualties caused by overturning furniture in clothing storage units, especially to prevent harm to children.
Among them, clothing storage unit furniture includes cabinets, dressing tables, wardrobes, drawers, drawers and door cabinets with storage functions.
After this standard comes into effect, all clothing storage unit furniture entering the US market must exceed the minimum stability requirements, have safety and identification information marks and tags, and be labeled with hanging tags to provide performance and technical data on product stability.
In addition, it also involves a test method for garment storage unit furniture with interlocking devices. The interlocking device can prevent all drawers from opening at the same time, thereby improving furniture stability.
has a great impact on sellers who sell furniture in the United States and disposable plastic supplies in Canada. If your furniture products do not comply with the new regulations that are about to come into effect, they cannot continue to be sold in the United States; and sellers of disposable plastic products will directly give up on the Canadian market and can only turn to other markets. If the seller has many disposable plastic products in Canada, he faces three options: directly discard the goods, return the goods to the country, and transfer them to other countries to continue selling.
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If the quantity of goods is not large, the value of disposable plastic products is low. If the goods are discarded directly, the loss is not very large. Of course, a destruction fee is also required to pay. For sellers with huge volumes of goods, it may be a big deal to abandon the goods directly. They can only choose to return the goods to the domestic market or turn to the US and Mexican markets. Returning back to China is not a good choice. The import cost may be comparable to the value of the goods itself, which is not cost-effective for sellers. The best choice is to transfer the market and transfer the goods to the United States to continue selling. Although some states in the United States have also restricted the sale of disposable plastic products, it is only a few states after all, and other states and provinces are sold normally.
So how to transfer goods from Canada to the United States? Sellers can find local third-party Canadian overseas warehouses for cooperation. Canadian overseas warehouses can provide importers with transfer services to sellers, and transfer goods from Canada to any address in the United States directly. You can choose UPS delivery or card delivery service. Canadian overseas warehouses can provide free door-to-door pickup service. Sellers only need to provide the pickup address and destination warehouse, and do not need to worry about customs clearance issues.
is the same for American furniture sellers. If the product does not comply with the new regulations, it can also be transferred to the Imperial Express Canada overseas warehouse. Then the seller will recreate the shipment in the Canadian FBA and then send it to the Amazon warehouse after the overseas warehouse replacement operation. In short, Canada's overseas warehouses can provide two-way transportation in the United States and Canada, FBA labeling and replacement, product testing, large-piece warehousing, one-piece and customer after-sales service.
