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If you want Australian shoppers buying from you in November, you need to have your ducks in a row by mid-October at the latest. Promotions there now start with Singles' Day and Click Frenzy in the first half of November, and transit from the US and other origin countries can ...

If you sell into the EU, two significant changes will impact your customs declarations this year, and they are easy to conflate. One is the removal of the de minimis duty exemption. The other is the new Product Identifier (PID) requirement. Because both arrived in the same ...

Shoppers from dozens of countries are already visiting your store, and if you're like most brands, the majority of them leave without buying. That's why we created Market Intelligence and made it available directly within the FlavorCloud app. We can tell you which markets are ...

Pumpkin spice started as a US seasonal habit. Now the demand shows up in the UK, Australia, and the Gulf. The appetite crosses borders quickly, but the infrastructure to serve it profitably rarely keeps up.

International revenue is where the growth is. It's also where disputes multiply. Cross-border orders make up roughly a fifth of global ecommerce and carry about twice the chargeback rate of domestic transactions, driven by currency confusion, delivery delays, and fraud. For ...

Peak season rewards brands that lock in their cross-border shipping plan early. Carrier demand surcharges and holiday cutoff dates decide two things at once: whether your international orders land on time, and whether peak volume grows your margin or eats it.

When a shipment gets held at an EU border because there's no "Responsible Person" on file, it looks like a customs problem. However, it’s not. It's product law, and customs is just where you feel it first. The exact shape of it depends on the product category: cosmetics, medical ...

Since June 19th, 2026, merchants selling to shoppers in the EU through an online store have been required to give those shoppers a digital way to cancel their orders. The requirement comes from Directive (EU) 2023/2673, which adds a new Article 11a to the EU Consumer Rights ...

Of the three EU Product Identifiers you need on every SKU by November 1, 2026, two are within your control. The merchant PID lives in your storefront and the standardized PID is typically the EAN barcode associated with the product (the 13-digit number you may already have in ...

If a product in your catalog contains batteries, electronics, sprays, alcohol, or many other common materials, there's a real chance it's a regulated dangerous good. If you ship it across a border without the right change to packaging, labeling, and paperwork it can be held, ...