in the past two years, people engaged in foreign trade can feel that cross-border e-commerce is really hot. Platforms such as Alibaba international station, Amazon and express have risen one by one, which has "ignited" everyone's confidence in foreign trade again. However, although the platform is booming, for small and medium-sized enterprises, the profit margin of foreign trade is still much lower than that in the hottest years of foreign trade. If you want to earn both yelling and real gold and silver, you still need to make careful calculations and control your own cost
especially the logistics cost, which is relatively different from domestic trade. If you don't know much about foreign trade, especially the cross-border logistics on the line, it's easy to waste money. It seems that each sum may not be much worse, but a little makes a lot, which is also a big expense
here I recommend you, especially the peers who have just switched to cross-border e-commerce, a good tool to save money - Alibaba international station Datong, which is a comprehensive foreign trade service platform officially provided by Alibaba international station to our foreign trade enterprises. Its services involve customs clearance, foreign exchange collection, tax rebate, international logistics, etc. Although the services are very extensive, the charges are cheaper than many other channels.
we can simply calculate the account. There are mainly two kinds of services of Alibaba international station, that is, one Datong agent export service (2 + n) and one Datong export comprehensive service (3 + n). The main difference here is that 2 + n includes two basic services (customs clearance and foreign exchange) and n other value-added services, and 3 + n has one more tax rebate than 2 + n. if we use one Datong agent export service (2 + n) , the basic service fee charged is the order export amount x1 5% (minimum RMB 200 and maximum RMB 600 for a single transaction) and 6 points of value-added tax. Assuming 50000 yuan of goods, that is 50000 * 1.5% * (1 + 6%)=795 yuan. As far as I know, most similar services in the market are cheaper in the south. They charge about 3-6 points per dollar, that is, 3% - 6% of the price. In the north, they will be more expensive, about 6% - 8%. In this way, if you are a small partner in the south, the total cost of the same goods is 1500-3000 yuan, while in the north, it is as high as 3000-4000 yuan. With Alibaba international station, you can save almost half to 70% or 80% of the cost
of course, if you want to use the comprehensive export service (3 + n) If so, it should be noted that yidatong will advance the tax refund first, so a tax refund advance fee will be generated, which should also be considered in the whole transaction cost. This involves many factors such as the tax rebate rate, tax rebate advance rate and foreign exchange rate of products. However, according to my own experience, even with this fee, the whole cost is 30-40% cheaper than most in the market. Moreover, as the tax refund fee will be advanced as soon as it reaches Datong, the arrival time is earlier, which is also very important for the company to revitalize its funds
therefore, if you don't want to spend too much energy looking for channels to compare prices and want to save money, Alibaba international one-stop recommends you to have a try