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Insights
Compliance, specifications and shipping — the things worth knowing before a first order.
26 October 2026 · Buddha Overseas
What FOB, CFR and CIF each move to whom, where risk really passes, why your duty bill does not change, and what the ICC says about using them for containers.
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19 October 2026
How India's APEDA peanut export procedure works: registered processing units, authorised laboratories, Peanut.Net certificates of export, and what a buyer should verify.
12 October 2026
Every Indian rice shipment needs an APEDA RCAC tied to your contract, valid 45 days. What it covers, what cannot be amended after issue, and how to plan around it.
7 October 2026
Kibbled, minced, granules or powder: what each cut is for, why mesh numbers are ambiguous, the Codex limits on dried garlic, and how density fills a box.
5 October 2026
The EU ethylene oxide limit is a detection limit, not a safety threshold, and it counts 2-chloroethanol too. What that means for every lot we ship.
28 September 2026
What moisture, ash, acid-insoluble ash, ASTA colour and microbiology actually tell you — and why a certificate of analysis describes a sample, not your container.
23 September 2026
The EU regulation that decides whether your spice container is waved through, sampled at the border, or needs an official certificate and lab results.
23 September 2026
The first six digits of a tariff code are the part the world agrees on. India classifies at eight, and the last two decide the duty, the paperwork and sometimes the chapter your goods sit in.
19 September 2026
A 40ft container holds about 2.3 times the volume of a 20ft, but roughly the same weight. For dense goods that makes it the wrong box — and for light goods it is the only one that makes sense.
16 September 2026
An Indian lab certificate saying "FSSAI compliant" does not mean a consignment will clear an EU border. The two rulebooks set different numbers, and one of them tests for something the other ignores.
