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The questions the desk is asked most, about buying, selling, shipping, visas and the paperwork, answered properly once.

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 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. A Nigerian buyer holding a phone up to a merchant's QR code at a market stall in Guangzhou, the Alipay or WeChat scan screen visible Guide Money 7 min WeChat Pay and Alipay for Nigerians visiting China How a Nigerian visitor sets up WeChat Pay and Alipay in China, which card works, the limits and fees on a foreign card, and why the wallet is not for suppliers. A printed proforma invoice on a desk with a red company chop at the bottom, a pen and a highlighter marking the HS code line Guide Money 9 min Proforma invoice from a China supplier: what to check first The proforma invoice from a China supplier is what your bank, your clearing agent and any dispute rest on. The fields it must carry, and what suppliers leave out. Two hands across a table, one holding a proforma invoice, the other a phone showing a bank transfer confirmation screen with the amount blurred Guide Money 9 min China supplier deposit and balance: when to release money The China supplier deposit is where the risk sits. What 30 percent down and 70 percent against the bill of lading means, what to receive before the balance. A bank transfer confirmation on a phone screen next to a WhatsApp chat, with the amount and names blurred, a worried hand on the table Guide Money 9 min China payment scams: how the money disappears China payment scams are about the money leg: the agent who pads the rate or vanishes, the changed account, the fake transfer confirmation, the release fee. A row of official certificates on a desk, a SONCAP certificate, a NAFDAC permit and a CAC certificate, fanned out Guide The Nigerian Side 9 min Do you need an import licence in Nigeria? Who issues what Nigeria has no general import licence. An importer needs a registered business, a TIN, a Form M, and a permit only for regulated goods. Which agency covers what.
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