Knowledge Base

Guides for specialty buyers on origin, grades, and export paperwork. Browse by topic or search by title.

Sourcing & Samples

How to choose a lot, request an evaluation sample, and place a first wholesale order. Selection, sampling, and quotation — not shipping modes.

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Compliance & Documents

Certificates, analysis reports, export paperwork, and destination-market import requirements. Use this section when you are assembling a shipment.

Tea export documents checklist Papers that usually travel with a Chinese loose-leaf tea shipment: who issues each one, what the buyer uses it for, and which extras are requested separately.

Logistics & Customs

Single-topic shipping and customs guides that do not belong on the shipping overview — Incoterms detail and other deep dives, not mode or transit time.

Incoterms for tea imports EXW, FOB, CFR and CIF explained for tea: who arranges what, where risk actually passes, and which one suits a first shipment.

Tea Reference

Grades, terms, storage, and tasting methods. Look here for how to read a spec, not how to place an order or clear a shipment.

Storing tea after delivery Green, oolong, black and pu-erh do not keep the same way. What each category needs after delivery, and the mistake that spoils two at once.