The difference between import and export agents and freight forwarders

The difference between import and export agents and freight forwarders: import and export agents mainly provide customs clearance for goods, then collect and pay overseas goods, pay taxes, issue additional tickets and handle tax refund. Freight forwarders are mainly responsible for cargo transportation, such as booking, trailer, warehousing and other transportation services.

Definition of import and export agent:

1. Export agents refer to professional import and export agents, and agents refer to customers with import and export needs. Because you are not familiar with the import and export business or have no import and export rights, we help you entrust shipping companies, freight forwarding companies, customs brokers, trading companies and so on to import trade service-oriented business.

2. Import and export agents are generally operated by agents. In the process of import and export, import and export agents, as intermediaries other than consignors and consignees, collect commissions, that is, service fees, but generally do not bear credit, exchange and market risks, and do not own the ownership of imported goods. Modern logistics enterprises have the strength, and at the same time provide services such as stocking financing and prepayment of imported funds. Generally, it is needed when the capital demand is large, which is a mode of supply chain management.

: the basic concept of freight forwarding

Judging from the basic nature of international freight forwarders, freight forwarders mainly accept the entrustment of the entrusting party to handle matters related to cargo transportation, transshipment, warehousing, loading and unloading, etc. On the one hand, it signs a transport contract with the shipper of goods, and at the same time, he signs a contract with the transport department. For the shipper of goods, he is also the carrier of goods. A considerable number of freight forwarders have mastered various modes of transportation and warehouses for storing goods, and handled the transportation of goods including land, sea and air.

Freight forwarders undertake any formalities in the transportation of different goods instead of shippers:

1. Arrange the proper packaging of the goods and choose the transportation route of the goods by the quickest and most economical transportation mode.

2. Recommend storage and distribution methods to customers.

3. Select a reliable and efficient carrier to sign the transportation contract.

4. Arrange the weighing and measurement of goods.

5. handle cargo insurance.

6. Assembly of goods.

7. Store the goods in the warehouse before shipment or distribution at the destination.

8. Arrange the transportation of goods to the port, go through the customs and related documents, and hand over the goods to the carrier.

9. Bear the freight, customs duties and taxes on behalf of the shipper.

10, handling any foreign exchange transactions related to cargo transportation.

1 1. Obtain various signed bills of lading from the carrier and hand them over to the shipper.

12. supervise the cargo transportation process by contacting the agents of foreign carriers and freight forwarders, and let the shipper know the whereabouts of the goods.