SAFE import from China, Warsaw 20.09.2024

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SAFE IMPORT FROM CHIN is simply a training detailing:

- import order process from thought to transportation of goods to indicated warehouse in the country
- typical problems of each importer

We will analyse and discuss them based on my 30-year experience in conducting import operations.

The training expression allows to kind out cognition and fill possible gaps for people with experience, and for all beginners to gain a set of basic applicable skills

Who is this training for?

If you have no import experience,

You will learn how to look for a supplier, how to choice it, how to order it, how to pay without unnecessary risk, how to control quality, how to take care to get appropriate import documents, how to arrange transport and customs clearance. And where to find the means to fund it all.

If you already have any experience, but you want to systematize your knowledge,

training SAFE imports from China will let you to find areas of top risk, identify these risks, minimize them or even destruct them.

In both cases, participation in training SAFE imports from China will let you to get a pill of theoretical cognition during 1 intensive day of training, so that you can avoid reefs and shallows so frequently found in trade with China. And that is the basis for actual success!

Number of places limited

The training is workshop-like, in a group of up to 12 people.

Training base and its universality

The training program was based on my more than 30 years of experience in working with contractors from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China In China alone, I spent more than 25 years organizing production and supervising import operations for large Polish companies, including listed companies.

My training experience is in cooperation with Chinese contractors, but the information and cognition provided during the classes is universal due to the fact that it applies to trade with all countries outside the European Union.

About me, the author and the trainer

My name is Leszek Slazyk, born in Gdynia in 1967. I'm an educated polytologist, with a passionate publicist, by choice an entrepreneur.

I have been professionally active with China since 1994. I started my adventure with the mediate State with production supervision in factories in Shanghai, Suzhou, Shaoxing, Hangzhou. In the following years, I have acquired large experience in searching for and verifying producers, quality control of production throughout its process, appropriate formulation and enforcement of contracts and contracts, the usage of safe forms of payment, transport organisation, customs clearance supervision. For years I was liable for a comprehensive production organization for well-known and recognized Polish companies. In China, Taiwan, India, Pakistan, Ukraine, Serbia, Romania, Colombia.

In 2010 I launched a portal www.chiny24.com. in 2020, I created a podcast “China according to Leszek Ślazyk” following Karol Strya's suggestion. I am the author of the book “China according to Leszek Slazyk”, in which I share my insights collected during years worked in China. This book contains an addition devoted to the specifics of negotiations with Chinese contractors.

My latest book “China Fortress. Why we do not realize China” appeared on the publishing marketplace in February 2024.

I present in it modern China, I effort to explain why we do not realize the Chinese contemporary and besides to bring their importance to the world, to Poland, as the largest production possible on the globe scale.

As a individual who knows Chinese economical realities (crossing social, political) I am invited by the media,

universities, institutions, organisations to participate both in the discussions on modern China and in the work on building economical relations with the PRC. I am the author of a survey commissioned by the Polish Government entitled “The possible of Polish Digital Economy in relation to and based on the Digital Ecosystem of the People's Republic of China”.

Training programme

Basic information

Who is an importer in the light of government and taxation regulations?
What is import?
Why are goods most frequently imported from China?
Myths and false opinions about production in China, which is not all the gold that shines.
How to avoid basic errors in import activity, i.e.

What to import, i.e. product selection

How to make a choice not to lose.
Location of supplier – impact on price, impact on import costs
Price and cost of imports – fast rate of calculation of import operation costs
Product niches – as a warrant of success (examples).
How about making your own brand? ‘To-measure’ production – examples.
A maker or a broker? erstwhile is it worth working with them directly?
Sly loses twice or why you should stick to rigid import rules – examples.
How can you make money, and on what is failure guaranteed?

Search and choice the right supplier

Internet portals like Alibaba: advantages and threats
How about a fair? About the advantages and disadvantages of trade fairs with Chinese companies – trade fairs in Canton, trade fairs, fairs outside China.
Going to China: how to organize, what costs to take into account.
The methodology for selecting suppliers, which is cheap, does not mean well.
Effective communication with Chinese suppliers: tools, circumstantial language and phrases – examples
Introduction to cultural differences where the word is not so confirmed, and fraud is not reprehensible
Verification of the supplier (real offer, financial condition of the supplier, business condition)
Contracts and contracts
The most common methods of extortion, fraud, saving of truth

Myths and fact on Negotiations with Chinese

Why are the Chinese different?
Different civilization, different business culture
When do negotiations make sense?
Examples of Chinese negotiating tricks
Does it substance how we give a card?
Does it substance to build relations with Chinese contractors?
Lingering, gifts and many another customs related to Chinese business culture and their importance present for the importer.

Delivery and payment conditions, i.e. how not to lose

Negotiations on transportation terms - price is crucial but not the most important
Basic data to be included in the contract
Language of the contract, legal aid
Why pay attention to the account given to the contract by the Chinese supplier
Establishing and selecting the kind of payment (electronic transfer, credit, other) and why we do not pay 100% advance
Verification of supplier's bank account
Since the contract with the supplier enters into force

Production preparation and commissioning

Ordering samples and designs of products
Production process in detail
Quality control in the production process – examples, methods
Preparation to receive delivery
Preparation of papers for the importer
Certificates of conformity with European standards
EU requirements to be met by imported products, i.e. how to avoid border problems
Guarantees, instructions for use, packaging

Shipping of goods

First, the papers!
Is it a change or a full container?
Fob, CIF? Under what conditions should we send the goods and why
Choose what? Sea transport? How about a railroad? Aviation? – erstwhile and why should we decide on a certain kind of freight transport?
Konosament (B/L) – peculiar interest paper (detailed discussion)
Unpleasant surprises, that is, about customs in maritime transport (delays, downtime fees, transfer and unloading of containers (examples)
Why is prudent always insured (examples)
The choice of a partner to be entrusted with the transport of our goods
What determines the price of transportation of goods from China to Poland.

Customs clearance or summary

Import papers – preparation process, verification
Why work with the customs agency
CE certificate
Rates of duty, VAT rates, how to fix them on the basis of authoritative sources
Why can crates or pallets become a origin of problems?
What must the importer remember
Delivery, transport to storage

Intellectual property, trademarks in China – myths and facts

Change in China's attitude towards intellectual property protection
How to defend your trademark, a patent in China?
How to enforce your rights?

Summary, questions and answers

Training methodology

During training SAFE imports from China We will follow the full import process: from the thought to the receipt of finished goods in the warehouse indicated by us.

Participants of the training in addition to the materials developed by me (more than 100 pages), will besides receive

30 days free care from me during the implementation of 1 import operation,
Support in contacts with companies operating importers (transport companies, forwarders, banks, insurance companies, certification companies, product quality control companies in China, etc.), as well as
"China Fortress".

For fixed training, 4 coffee breaks are provided (drinks and snacks available throughout the course of the training)