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Buying, selling, shipping, visas, the Canton Fair and the paperwork on both sides. Written by people doing it, not people selling a course.

Canton Fair 8 China Visa 17 Shipping and Clearing 37 Buying and Sourcing 126 Where China Makes What 11 Money 17 Travelling and Living 25 The Nigerian Side 15 Selling to China 15 Selling it in Nigeria 12 News and Updates 5
A tax assessment or VAT return on a screen beside a Customs duty receipt, a calculator between them Guide The Nigerian Side 13 min Tax on imported goods in Nigeria: at the port and on the business Tax on imported goods in Nigeria comes twice: at the port as duty, levies and VAT, and on the business under the 2026 laws. What a small trader pays and gets back. A departures board or an aircraft at Murtala Muhammed International Airport at night, or a Nigerian traveller at a boarding gate with a small carry on and a fol Guide Travelling and Living 13 min Flights from Nigeria to Guangzhou: the routes and the stopovers Flights from Nigeria to Guangzhou all stop once, in Addis, Nairobi, Doha, Dubai or Istanbul. Which airlines fly it, the transit rules, and when fares peak. The arrivals hall at Guangzhou Baiyun airport with the metro signs and a telecom counter visible, or a traveller at the immigration queue holding a passport Guide Travelling and Living 8 min Arriving at Guangzhou airport as a Nigerian, step by step Arriving at Guangzhou airport: the online arrival card, fingerprints, the cash declaration, the yellow fever check, the 24 hour rule and the metro into town. A phone showing the WeChat registration screen with a QR code, held by a Nigerian trader at a desk, a second phone beside it scanning the code Guide Travelling and Living 8 min How to set up WeChat in Nigeria before you fly to China Set up WeChat in Nigeria before you travel: the friend verification step, why new accounts get frozen, WeChat Pay with a foreign card, and what suppliers expect. A hand holding a phone with two SIM trays visible, a China Unicom or China Mobile counter blurred in the background, or a traveller comparing an eSIM screen wit Guide Travelling and Living 8 min China SIM card for Nigerians: eSIM, airport SIM and roaming China SIM card for Nigerians: a local SIM at Baiyun airport, an eSIM that keeps WhatsApp working, or Airtel, MTN and Glo roaming. Dated prices and the OTP problem. A phone screen showing WhatsApp failing to connect, with a Chinese city street or a hotel room in the background Guide Travelling and Living 7 min Does WhatsApp work in China? Internet for Nigerian travellers Does WhatsApp work in China? Not on Chinese networks. What is blocked, what still works, the roaming and eSIM routes that keep WhatsApp alive, and the VPN question. A Guangzhou Metro platform with the bilingual line map on the wall and a train arriving, or the ticket gates at Pazhou station with the Canton Fair signage Guide Travelling and Living 9 min Getting around Guangzhou: metro, taxis, Didi and the trains out Getting around Guangzhou for a buyer: the metro to Pazhou, Xiaobei and the airport, tapping a foreign card at the gate, taxi rates, Didi and the fast trains out. A phone showing a map app with Chinese street names, held up against a Guangzhou street or a market entrance, the real signage matching the screen Guide Travelling and Living 7 min Maps in China: why Google Maps fails and what to use instead Maps in China for a Nigerian buyer: Google Maps is blocked and offset, Amap has an English mode, Apple Maps works. How to get an address a driver can read. A container being lifted off a ship at Apapa with the terminal cranes in frame, or a truck at the port gate with a gate pass being checked Guide The Nigerian Side 9 min Apapa port clearing process: your container, step by step The Apapa port clearing process from the ship's arrival to the truck at your gate: the assessment, the declaration, the duty, the risk channel, the releases. A handwritten sum on a notepad, ten lines from "goods" to "delivered", with a calculator and a naira note beside it Guide Money 8 min Landed cost from China to Nigeria: the real price of goods The landed cost from China to Nigeria is the goods plus nine other lines: freight, insurance, duty, levies, VAT, port, clearing, delivery and losses. Build it first. A clearing agent's desk with a Customs assessment printout, a calculator and a container number on a sticky note Guide Money 8 min Customs duty calculator, Nigeria: the formula, worked through No official customs duty calculator exists for Nigeria, so here is the formula: duty on CIF by HS code, the surcharge, CISS, the ECOWAS levy, VAT, worked through. Guide Money 7 min Yuan to naira: how the exchange rate works for an importer The yuan to naira rate an importer pays is three rates: the bank's official rate, the agent's rate and the Customs rate for duty. How each is set in 2026.
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