2 October, 2026 | Shanghai, China For craft food brands looking at China, cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) remains the fastest route to market — no Chinese entity required, no general-trade import licence, and a tax structure that cuts the effective VAT bill by almost a third. But “no entity” does not mean “no rules.” The 2026…
1 October, 2026 | Shanghai, China Asia is not one market. Treating it as one is the fastest way to burn €50,000 and 12–18 months on a market that was never going to work. Craft brands face a specific problem: not enough bandwidth to chase every opportunity, not enough capital to waste on the wrong…
Seven 2025 to 2026 food import detention cases in China, Japan and Korea (labels, additives, aflatoxin, registration) covering the real costs exporters paid and how pre-shipment audits prevent them.
29 September, 2026 | Shanghai, China Introduction Japan is the world’s fourth-largest food retail market, with imported food accounting for over 60% of supply. Low tariffs under the EU-Japan EPA attract European exporters, but the technical barriers are where shipments fail. Unlike China’s GACC system, Japan does not require universal overseas factory registration for food…
28 September, 2026 | Shanghai, China We have five active craft-distillery clients in our pipeline right now — a London dry gin distiller in Scotland, a Brazilian cachaça producer, an Italian grappa distiller, a Polish craft vodka distiller, and a Spanish brandy de Jerez bodega. Every one of them asked the same question at some…
25 September 2026 | Shanghai, China At Specit Consulting, we work with functional food and ingredient exporters targeting Asian markets on a weekly basis. One pattern repeats across categories: the products that get detained are rarely the ones you would expect. They are not the ones with pesticide residues or heavy metal violations. They are…
24 September 2026 | Shanghai, China At Specit Consulting, we work with food exporters targeting Asian markets across 13 countries. Canned and preserved products are consistently treated as one of the “easier” categories by exporters entering the region — shelf-stable, no cold chain, lower phytosanitary barriers than fresh produce, and often lower per-unit logistics costs.…
23 September 2026 | Shanghai, China At Specit Consulting, we help food and agricultural exporters navigate market access across 13 Asian markets. Fresh fruit is one of the categories where we see the widest gap between exporter confidence and actual border readiness. Most fruit exporters planning China entry focus on tariffs, Incoterms, and pricing —…
22 September 2026 | Shanghai, China At Specit Consulting, we help European food and beverage exporters navigate certification requirements across 13 Asian markets. One assumption surfaces in nearly every conversation with organic producers: that a European organic certificate is a passport to all Asian markets. It is not. China, Japan, and South Korea each operate…
21 September 2026 | Shanghai, China At Specit Consulting, we help European food and beverage exporters navigate market access requirements across 13 Asian markets. South Korea is a market we are asked about with increasing frequency, and one question dominates those conversations: “I already export to Japan — is Korea basically the same process with…
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