Someone please teach me basic of importing thailand to usa

[farang000999]

I already have a retail location in the USA. I have experience of moving household goods to USA. I used an agent they do a bill of goods it gets X-ray and inspected on arrival etc... But I am looking for a better guide online and not finding it for someone who wants to start importing products for retail resale. And is the standard a minimum of one half container or is less plausible?

[beachproperty]

"Standard Minimum" as per what? you can ship as little as "whatever" you want. You'll have to pay more....how much more, I don't know.

[noise]

A friend tried to bring in 100 pillow cases as samples to see if he wanted to do the same thing you are thinking about. Customs refused to allow it because of U.S. imposed quotas for material like that from Thailand and he did not have a license to import. It did not matter those were just samples. The quantity meant they were not for personal use, so quotas applied.

Now that is pretty sketchy, lacking detail. But because of that, I would recommend starting with U.S. Govt web sites, Customs, etc., and see what laws are.

Since you did not specify what products you are interested in and in what quantities, it would hard to recommend shipping quantities and container sizes. I know there are 10, 20, 30, and 40 foot containers and that some people ship pallets that are consolidated with other pallets to fill a container.

[CharlieH]

This is a US issue/regs for import. Not Thailand subject.

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