Hello, Sir/Madam,
This is Lily From Sellersunion Online, we have attended the Canton Fair many times as exhibitor, we are an import and export trade service provider with 20 years experience.If you are going to attend Canton Fair or Plan to attend, here are some suggestions for your reference.
About Canton Fair
Canton Fair is the largest whole supplier tradeshow in the world, thousands of vendors and buyers attend where is hold in Guangzhou,China. The time of Canton Fair in 2018 is Apr.1st to May.7th, the Canton Fair has 3 phases, as the service provider with rich foreign trade experience, we will take part in the whole course. Sellersunion Online is a comprehensive trade service platform, our website has more than 500,000 products and 15,000 high-quality suppliers, we will provide excellent trade service for global customers. Our booth address is 4-2,Area A,Pearl River Walk Path，Phase2.(23th-28th,April)
The Canton Fair is divided into 3 phases, the products displayed in each phase are different.
Phase 1: Electronics, household electrical appliances, machinery, lighting equipment, hardware and tools, vehicles and spare parts, building materials, chemical products.
Phase 2: Consumer products,decorations goods, gifts.
Phase 3: Textiles & garments, shoes, office supplies, cases & bags, recreation products, medicines, medical devices and health products
Apply for a certificate
If you are interested in import and export trade and want to participate in the Carton Fair, but do not know how to do? Here are some suggestions for you.
Registration&Invitation
Firstly, login to the Canton Fair official website to register your information and apply for a inva, after your application is successful, you will receive an invitation letter from the Canton Fair. At the same time, you must apply for a passport and visa to China.Here is the link http://www.cantonfair.org.cn/html/cantonfair/en/buyer/2012-09/73.shtml
- Pre-apply Free Buyer Card and apply for invitation (Buyers without Rntry Card)
- Apply for visa
- Getting Buyer Card
- Enter the Fair
- Apply for invitation (Buyer with Rntry Card)
- Apply for visa
- Take Buyer Card and attend Canton Fair
- Enter the Fair directly with Buyer Card
Book air ticket and hotel
After you get the visa, please plan ahead about which phase of Canton Fair will you attend, confirm the time and book the hotel early. Of course, if you feel that booking a hotel is inconvenient, you can contact us (Service@Sellersuniononline.com), our group owns a travel agency that specializes in providing booking air ticket and hotel service.Here is the Link of booking
How to reach the hotel and Canton Fair site
When you arrive at Guangzhou Airport, you can take a taxi to hotel or go to Canton Fair, Guangzhou is one of the most prosperous cities in China, the subway is also very convenient. If you want to take a subway, please plan your route early.
The Canton Fair
When you enter the Canton Fair, how to search your favorite products? Here we have some suggestions
If you know what products you are looking for, please follow the Canton Fair map to find the display area of this products.
If you are not know clearly about what products you are looking for, or it is the first time you want to do import and export trade. We recommend that you can visit according to the Canton Fair Area (A-F). Of course, you can contact us (service@sellersUniononline.com), we will do a comprehensive Sourcing Plan for you. I hope we can have the opportunity to meet and discuss at the Canton Fair.
Translation Service
Guangzhou is a modern city, most of Chinese can understand a little English, travel should be no problem, if you encounter any language problems you can contract us for help. Also you can hire a professional translator at the Canton Fair.
Communication Service
When you arrive at the airport, you can ask the airport service staff to buy the Chinese telephone card, to ensure that you can surf the internet. Please note that Google and Facebook are not available in China unless you purchase a VPN.
Foreign Currency Exchange
In China, you need to use RMB for payment, before you come to China, you can go to the bank to exchange money in advance.
Airport and bank of China also can provide exchange service. You need to prepare your passport if you want to exchange in China
Standard Trade Terms
If you are the first time to do the import and export trade, then you need to understand the common trade terms
MOQ—Minimum Order Quantity
Price：
FOB-- Free On Board, it is a term in international commercial law specifying at what point respective obligations, costs, and risk involved in the delivery of goods shift from the seller to the buyer
CIF-- Cost, Insurance and Freight (CIF) means the seller pays costs, freight and insurance against the buyer's risk of loss or damage in transit to destination.
CBM： Cubic Meter, volume of carton.
OEM：The service of re-design, re-packing products.
PI：Proforma Inovice.
QC：Quality Control
The above are some comments for your reference, if you have any questions, please feel free to email us, we are glad to solve the problems for you.
Sourcing-OEM Service
Flexible Payment
Insurance&Finance Service
Warehouse- Quality Control
International Freight
Website Agency
More information about us,pls click here:www.sellersuniononline.com
If you have plans to do import and export trade services but don't have any ideas, you can visit our online showroom to search the inspiration, if you have any questions, please feel free to email us, we will arrange a professional staff to do one-on-one service for you. Of course, if you don't have plan or time to participate in the Canton Fair this year, you can also do import and export trade, you can register our website and leave your questions, we will reply you within 2 working days.
Registration Link: https://www.sellersuniononline.com/front/join
All in all, we wish you success in Canton Fair, and hope that we can meet at the Canton Fair, Our booth address is 4-2,Area A,Pearl River Walk Path，Phase2.(23th-28th,April),123th Canton Fair.