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Consignment stock / Non-resident inventory in Europe

Issue (example of company A)
Company A is a company established in Singapore. Company A export goods from Singapore and sells goods to customers in the EU. Company A wanted to have stock in Europe, but did not have any entities in Europe.

Issue (example of company B)
Company B is a subsidiary of a Japanese company and is established in the UK. Company B had stock in the UK and sold the goods from its UK warehouse to its customers, but most of the customers were located in EU member countries. Company B wanted to have stock in EU member countries.

DDP business to EU customers

Issue (example of company C)
Company C is a company established in the USA. Company C exports products to its customers in EU member countries. Company C was requested by its EU customers to change its terms of trade to DDP. Under DDP terms the supplier (=company C) should be an importer and arrange import clearance, however company C did not have entities in EU member countries.

Consignment stock owned by Japanese headquarters

Issues (example of company D)
Company D is a subsidiary of a Japanese company and is established in Germany. Company D imported goods from Japan and sold goods to its customers in Europe. Company D was requested by its customers to hold stock in Europe, but this was not easy because company D is small-sized and has limited financial resources and manpower.

Arranging transportation to Europe

Issues (example of company E)
Company E purchases products from a supplier in Asia, and transports them to Europe. The supplier arranges ocean freight to Europe, but company E has difficulty tracing the cargos because it always receives shipping documents very late.

Minimizing logistics costs

Issue (example of company F)
Company F is a company established in Japan. Company F directly exports small volumes of products to its customers in EU member countries by LCL or AIR freight because company F ships products separately for each purchase order. Company F wants to minimize logistics costs by using FCL shipping and holding stock inside the EU. However company F does not have any entities in the EU.

Stock with bonded status

Issue (example of company G)
Company G is a subsidiary of a Japanese company and is established in Dusseldorf, Germany. Company G had stock in a warehouse in Hamburg, and sold the goods to its customers in EU member countries. However Company G had cash flow problems because import duties and VAT had to be paid on all its products in a container when it arrived at the warehouse.

Export logistics center

Issue (example of company H)
Company H provides products to North/Central/South America, Africa and the Middle East. It takes a long time to transport goods from Japan to the east-coast ports of the USA or to Central and South America and Africa, so it would like to have some stock in a third country in order to shorten transit times to these destinations and also to supply other areas.