Selling food into America is harder than it looks
Two federal agencies. Eight regulatory pathways. Filings that come due before your container is even loaded. None of it has anything to do with how good your product is — and all of it decides whether it reaches a shelf. We built the system that carries it, so you do not have to learn any of it.
What actually stands between your product and a U.S. shelf
This is not a customs form. It is a chain of obligations across two agencies, each with its own deadline, its own consequence for missing it, and its own way of failing quietly. Here is the honest shape of it.
Not one of these is negotiable, and the first one arrives before your goods leave Japan. Miss it and there is nothing to fix afterwards — the vessel has sailed.
All of the above still happens. You just are not the one doing it. Here is the entire supplier-facing job.
Tell us about your product
Ingredients, packaging, where it is made. Things you already know without looking anything up.
Sign two documents, once
One appoints us as your U.S. agent. One appoints us as your importer. Neither recurs.
Ship when we say ship
We tell you what is cleared and when. Every filing behind that is ours to make and ours to watch.
Most of our suppliers never read past this page. If you would rather see the machinery, it is all here.
Before your first shipment
Six things have to be true before a single box moves. Registration, classification, labelling, an importer, a bond, a broker. Once — then never again.
See the setupEvery shipment, every time
Five filings on four separate clocks, starting twenty-four hours before your container is loaded. This is the part that repeats forever.
See the chainWhen it goes wrong
Held, detained, refused. The part nobody advertises, the clocks that run whether or not anyone is watching, and what we do about it.
See the failure modesWho carries what
A plain table of every obligation and whose name is on it. Yours is the short column, and that is the entire point.
See the splitThat any of this is guaranteed. Nobody can promise a border outcome, and anyone who does is selling something. What we can promise is that every filing is made on time, every deadline is watched, and you hear from us either way — including when the news is bad.
Want to sell in the U.S.?
Whether you are already exporting or have only wondered about it, the first conversation costs nothing and usually takes twenty minutes.