{"id":13,"date":"2026-09-11T16:41:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/lagoon-blocks\/export-paperwork-checklist\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T16:41:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:41:59","slug":"export-paperwork-checklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/lagoon-blocks\/export-paperwork-checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"The export paperwork checklist we send every new client"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most loads held at a border are held for paperwork, not for anything wrong with the goods. So before a new client&#039;s first shipment we send the same one-page checklist, and our customs team goes through it with them on the phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The basics for every export<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A commercial invoice with the value, currency and terms of sale; a packing list that matches it case for case; the commodity code for every line; and the exporter&#039;s registration number. We prepare the export declaration from those.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What food, flowers and medicines add<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Products of animal origin need a health certificate signed by a vet, plants and cut flowers a phytosanitary certificate, and some medicines an export licence. Each has its own lead time, which is why we ask for them a week before collection rather than the day before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The checklist is dull. That is the point: a dull border crossing is the only kind we want.<\/p>\n<cite>our customs team<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial invoice, packing list, commodity codes and the certificates food and plants need. What we ask for, and why we ask for it early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customs","tag-customs","tag-exports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/lagoon-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/lagoon-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/lagoon-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/lagoon-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/lagoon-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/lagoon-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/lagoon-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/lagoon-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/lagoon-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/lagoon-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}