Cross-border selling resources

Navigating international trade rules and regulations is complex. Challenges include classifying product catalogs, managing accurate trade documentation, and ensuring compliance.

To reduce the risk of noncompliance, guarantee smooth customs clearance, and deliver a frictionless online shopping experience, many businesses are turning to solutions that connect all pieces of the global tax puzzle, such as automating tariff code classification and delivering real-time calculation of customs duties, import taxes, and sales and use taxes.

Expanding to new markets is an exciting milestone for your business — but across each border lie new and complex tax compliance challenges. Our guide can help you effectively navigate these roadblocks as your obligations grow.

Applying the wrong Harmonized System (HS) codes is a problem many businesses don’t even know they have.

If you’re trading across borders, our guide can help you get your HS codes right, pay the applicable duties, and avoid unnecessary delays.

With global cross-border ecommerce expected to surpass $1 trillion in 2023, businesses must contend with many rules, regulations, and global trade condition updates to maintain compliance. 

This consistent stream of hurdles can chip away at your business’s profitability and effectiveness.

In our blog, we take a closer look at the issues businesses like yours face so you can better understand and overcome them.

With consumer behavior changing worldwide, more retailers are looking to expand their sales internationally. 

This guide outlines common pain points and their simple solutions.

Avalara podcasts can help you understand and overcome the challenges of selling internationally. 

We partnered with the Future Commerce Step by Step podcast to compile advice from experts on everything you need to consider when expanding overseas.

Cross-border sales are a great way to increase your customer base, drive revenue, and position your brand for the future. This guide breaks down the essential steps to get started.

Find out about:

• Avoiding common mistakes with international shipping
• Estimating rates and fees
• Creating a great customer experience

Import Control System 2 (ICS2) is the EU safety and security initiative that screens shipments.

If you sell physical goods into the EU, as of March 1, 2024, you’ll need to adapt to new requirements for item descriptions, making it more important than ever to get your HS codes right.

Watch our webinar to learn more about ICS2 and how to meet the new requirements.

Delivered Duty Paid (DDP) is a shipping arrangement where the seller is responsible for all costs associated with delivering goods to the buyer, including import duties and taxes. 

Delivered At Place (DAP) means the seller is responsible for delivering the goods to a named destination, but the buyer is responsible for import duties and taxes.

Compare the experience when shipping DDP versus DAP.

Not every shipment is taxed on import. Many countries have a de minimis threshold, which means shipments are cleared without incurring customs duties or taxes. 

To help you figure out what duties and taxes apply where, we have provided examples of countries and their de minimis thresholds for duty and tax.

The Avalara cross-border solution makes it easier to sell anywhere in the world by automating the process of identifying and mapping tariff codes to products and by calculating customs duties and import taxes. 

See how the Avalara cross-border solution can help you stay compliant, reduce delays in customs, and keep your international customers happy.

Position your business for cross-border ecommerce success! Selling internationally can be confusing because of tariff codes, duties, and local tax rules.

Avoid these pitfalls with the Avalara cross-border solution.

Getting the landed cost right is crucial for making international selling a success. For the best customer experience, it’s key that customers understand all the costs associated with their purchase.

Keep reading to learn what landed cost is, why it’s important, and solutions available for international online sellers.

Threadless, an online community of artists and an ecommerce marketplace, has grown significantly over the last two years, launching local delivery options in Australia, Canada, and the EU.

Learn about their story and find out why they trust Avalara with their tax compliance.

Help lower costs and grow revenue while maintaining control of your customers’ cross-border experience.

Discover our range of global compliance solutions.

Discover solutions to automate your tariff code classification process for fast and consistent results.

Choose the tariff code classification that’s right for your business.

International growth comes with its own set of complexities. Create a cross-border solution that’s right for your business using our automated, modular solution that goes deep on content and accuracy.

Deliver real-time calculation of customs duty and import taxes at checkout, automate tariff code classification, and identify government restrictions on selling goods across borders.

Avalara Trade Compliance is a web-based platform that streamlines the collection, handling, and storage of customs’ critical commodity information. Eliminate costly steps and facilitate collaboration by combining the functionality of our automated commodity classification and HS verification tools with our comprehensive global tariff data to ensure only one correct version of the truth is maintained and presented to customs – all in one place.

Learn how to simplify VAT registration requirements for selling into the EU.

Get started with IOSS in three easy steps.

Get the latest in global tax changes for VAT in the Digital Age, e-invoicing, Import One-Stop Shop, EU customs, and more.