Martina C.

Thank you Robert for your answer. Yes surely it is additional costs, that's why I want to evaluate both options. I just need to be able to find a few of those companies, which I wasn't sure how to find.

Thank you for your tip :)

Thank you both for your answers. I will look into all options before making a choice, but I also like your suggestion @svenh to do it myself and use it as a way to learn.

Thank you both Norbert and Bert for your answers. Speaking about the regulations I was mainly referring to the Excise taxes. The rest indeed looked quite straight forward. As suggested I will check with an accountant, which will probably make my job easier. Also, thanks for pointing out the topic of the age check. I just thought it was enough to put a mandatory selection for the customer to declare that they are older than 18 as I have seen in multiple webshops, but I'll dig deeper.

Hi everyone, I am working on the business plan for a company I hopefully will open soon. I will be selling online, via my own web shop food and beverages (including wines and beers) from a selection of producers from other EU countries. Since I will handpick the producers myself, initially I thought I would just import myself the products. The producers are mainly really small, so I do not expect them to export themselves. But as I'm digging in all the regulations and documentation I start wondering if it wouldn't be more practical to hire an importer for that. My questions here are: - can an importer be hired to import really specific products (even if the volumes are small)? - does anyone have a similar business and wants to share their experience and tips on why to import yourself vs hire an importer? Thank you very much! Regards, Martina

Hi everyone, I am new here and working on the business plan for a company I am planning to start soon. I am considering different options logistically for my (food/beverages) products. They are products produced and imported from another EU country. They would come already packaged, but I will sell them in a box mixing multiple products. I see 2 options (open to different suggestions if you might have), which I would like to evaluate: - I store the products myself and pack the boxes on my own location and ship to the end customer; - I find a partner which can take care of storage, pack the boxes and deliver. In the second case I am not sure which kind of company I should look for. From my limited knowledge co-packing companies are actually packing the single products and not just putting in a box different products already packaged. So here I am a bit lost, can someone help me? Thank you very much.