Importing from China... What sort of taxes/ legalities are involved?

N.96 · 2018-10-18 03:03:02

Say if you have a real-life shop (not just online) and you want to cut out the middle-man and go direct to the supplier in China, what must you do to allow you to do this? For example, You have a home furnishings shop and you want to import some chairs from China. Can you just order them right from the supplier and put…

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Say if you have a real-life shop (not just online) and you want to cut out the middle-man and go direct to the supplier in China, what must you do to allow you to do this?

For example,

You have a home furnishings shop and you want to import some chairs from China. Can you just order them right from the supplier and put them in a shop and sell them (obviously paying tax on the sale)? Is this legal? Is this how businesses can sometimes work?

*Note: I am not a business owner, just a clueless person who is interested after seeing something on a chinese website identical to something I saw in a shop*

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