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Importing Products From India, China, etc?
Posted on 10/14/20 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 10/14/20 at 1:30 pm
I help run an oilfield and industrial supply company based out of Shreveport. I'm all about American made and buy/sell as much as I can but some items have to be imported to be priced competitively. I'm doing my research on the best way to import and do it without getting in any kind of trouble or getting ripped off. Anyone have any experience and/or have links to information or videos to fast track my learning process?
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Posted on 10/14/20 at 1:31 pm to BentonTiger7
You’ve come to the right place.
Posted on 10/14/20 at 1:32 pm to BentonTiger7
surely someone in the company knows a thing or 2 about this...no? 
Posted on 10/14/20 at 1:33 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
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You’ve come to the right place.
There are hundreds of thousands of members here. I've seen a lot of people get solid advice on things here. You just have to weed out the shite posting.
Posted on 10/14/20 at 1:33 pm to BentonTiger7
Wish.com
Posted on 10/14/20 at 1:34 pm to BentonTiger7
China is the first of the most important thing to me and I am in the middle right here so I’m going on the back road and I’ll let y’all be a little while
Posted on 10/14/20 at 1:35 pm to Salmon
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You’ve come to the right place.
Not a big company. I'm one of two owners and COVID forced us to cut back so it's just us two for now. We are still making it but will need to start importing some products to continue growing.
Posted on 10/14/20 at 1:35 pm to BentonTiger7
you RUN a supply company, but dont know how to import said supplies to supply them to others who need the supplies that your supply company is supposed to supply?
Posted on 10/14/20 at 1:36 pm to BentonTiger7
I'm interested to know which supplies have to be imported to be competitive. I'm in the oilfield as well and am used to paying for overpriced supplies.
Posted on 10/14/20 at 1:37 pm to JDPndahizzy
I’ve seen a lot of Chinese steel fail on pipe racks when casing is brought in
Posted on 10/14/20 at 1:39 pm to Ash Williams
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you RUN a supply company, but dont know how to import said supplies to supply them to others who need the supplies that your supply company is supposed to supply?
We sell a lot of domestic goods and buy from some large suppliers that import. We are at a point to needing to cut cost on some goods to get in the door with new customers.
Posted on 10/14/20 at 1:40 pm to JDPndahizzy
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I'm interested to know which supplies have to be imported to be competitive. I'm in the oilfield as well and am used to paying for overpriced supplies.
You'd be surprised how much stuff you think is domestic but is imported. Pretty much all o-rings,seals, etc are imported.
Posted on 10/14/20 at 1:40 pm to BentonTiger7
Supposedly it is cheaper to catch shrimp in the gulf, ship them to China to be processed and then ship them back to the US rather than process them in LA
Posted on 10/14/20 at 1:41 pm to Sun God
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I’ve seen a lot of Chinese steel fail on pipe racks when casing is brought in
Shoot, I've seen plenty of valves fail too. I had a guy drop off a set of tubing tongs at our yard. I looked at them and told him to come get them everything was marked in chinese. No thank you..
Posted on 10/14/20 at 1:42 pm to lrabor3
I believe it.
Posted on 10/14/20 at 1:43 pm to Kafka
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Supposedly it is cheaper to catch shrimp in the gulf, ship them to China to be processed and then ship them back to the US rather than process them in LA
I can 100% believe this..
Posted on 10/14/20 at 1:43 pm to Sun God
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I’ve seen a lot of Chinese steel fail on pipe racks when casing is brought in
No doubt there is a lot of junk from China but a lot of products from there are fine. A lot of o-rings, hammer union seals, and gaskets are made in china/India. I know of a lot of suppliers that are selling imported goods and the end users are happy with them.
Posted on 10/14/20 at 1:44 pm to Sun God
I've seen a Chinese triplex mud pump where all three swabs and liners had slightly different measurements.
Posted on 10/14/20 at 1:48 pm to BentonTiger7
My previous company experienced a rash of o-ring failures that flooded the tools electronics. Our vendor started bringing in Chinese o-rings that would degrade under temperature. The o-rings would put a rubber sludge in the hydraulic reservoir until the filter screen would plug off and have a catastrophic failure. Needless to say that vendor lost all our work.
This post was edited on 10/14/20 at 1:49 pm
Posted on 10/14/20 at 1:49 pm to redstick13
The good ole L tool
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