{"id":39,"date":"2008-12-31T07:34:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T11:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=39"},"modified":"2008-12-31T07:34:29","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T11:34:29","slug":"importexport-on-a-small-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/importexport-on-a-small-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Import\/Export on a Small Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I did a little bit of small-scale <strong>\u8fdb\u51fa\u53e3<\/strong> (import and export) involving <strong>\u5316\u5986\u54c1<\/strong> (makeup products).\u00a0 What I noticed while in China was that <strong>\u776b\u6bdb\u818f<\/strong> (mascara)\uff0c <strong>\u53e3\u7ea2<\/strong>(lipstick) <strong>\u7c89\u5e95\u6db2<\/strong>(foundation)\u00a0 from companies such as <strong>\u5170\u853b<\/strong>(Lancome) were so pricey that you could say they were <strong>\u5bb0\u4eba<\/strong> (ripoff).\u00a0 One example would be the price difference between one cream which cost about 300RMB equivalent in the states but which retails for about 500RMB in China &#8211; quite a difference!\u00a0 I suspect that the price difference is due to\u00a0 <strong>\u5173\u7a0e<\/strong> (tariffs). \u00a0 <strong>\u9999\u6c34<\/strong> (perfume\/cologne)  is another product which varies in price but can fetch a nice profit if positioned well.\u00a0 If you forget to pick it up before moving between countries, just swing by a <strong>\u514d\u7a0e\u5e97<\/strong> (duty-free store) for your shopping.\u00a0 Given the price difference, even buying it a more expensive place won&#8217;t cut into your <strong>\u6210\u672c<\/strong> (operating cost, overhead).<\/p>\n<p>\u8fdb\u51fa\u53e3 jin4chu1kou3 &#8211; import and export<br \/>\n\u5316\u5986\u54c1 hua4zhuang1pin3 &#8211; makeup products<br \/>\n\u776b\u6bdb\u818f jie2mao2gao1 &#8211; mascara<br \/>\n\u53e3\u7ea2 kou3hong2 &#8211; lipstick<br \/>\n\u7c89\u5e95\u6db2 fen2di3ye4 &#8211; foundation<br \/>\n\u5170\u853b lan2kou4 &#8211; Lancome (brand)<br \/>\n\u5173\u7a0e guan1shui4 &#8211; tariffs\/duties<br \/>\n\u5bb0\u4eba zai2ren2 &#8211; rip-off<br \/>\n\u9999\u6c34 xiang1shui3 &#8211; perfume<br \/>\n\u514d\u7a0e\u5e97 mian3shui4dian4 &#8211; duty-free store<br \/>\n\u6210\u672c cheng2ben3 &#8211; operating costs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I did a little bit of small-scale \u8fdb\u51fa\u53e3 (import and export) involving \u5316\u5986\u54c1 (makeup products).\u00a0 What I noticed while in China was that \u776b\u6bdb\u818f (mascara)\uff0c \u53e3\u7ea2(lipstick) \u7c89\u5e95\u6db2(foundation)\u00a0 from companies such as \u5170\u853b(Lancome) were so pricey that you could say they were \u5bb0\u4eba (ripoff).\u00a0 One example would be the price difference between one cream which&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/importexport-on-a-small-scale\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}