The documents a buyer receives, and how they are arranged
Baiwei Pets arranges the paperwork behind your own import file. Each document is arranged with your order and named on your quotation. Which ones you need depends on your market, your product and the checks your own customers ask you to make.
Name the documents you need in your enquiry, and they are named back to you on your quotation.
Each one is arranged with your order and travels with the shipment.
Any address block, care label or barcode your market asks for is part of your artwork, and a proof is sent before printing.
Who does what
The party that places goods on a destination market carries the registration, marking and reporting duties there. That is your side of the line, or your customer's. Baiwei Pets supplies the paperwork behind those duties: material declarations, test reports, packing data and marking records.
Your own adviser decides which rules apply to your product in your market. Ask for the documents by name and they are quoted by name.
Every family, every shipment
These are the documents buyers ask for across the range, whatever they buy.
| Material declaration | Names the materials in the product and in its packing, part by part. |
|---|---|
| Migration of certain elements report | A migration report on the elements your own specification names. Retail buyers of pet ranges usually write the method into that specification themselves. |
| Origin marking record | A photograph showing where and how the country-of-origin mark is applied. US buyers ask that the mark survive to the person who buys the product. |
| Pallet treatment mark | Where your load ships on solid-wood pallets, a photograph of the treatment mark is arranged with your order. There is no paper to go with it. |
| Carton data sheet | Carton dimensions, pieces per carton and how full the carton is. European buyers ask for these figures for their own packaging reporting. |
Cat scratchers, cat houses and cardboard toys
Corrugated card is a plant product, so this group is about fibre and plant material.
| Board and construction declaration | Names the board and any felt or plant-fibre part in the product. |
|---|---|
| Plant-material declaration for Australia | Confirms that plant parts are bark-free, dry and free of soil and insects, with any heat-treatment or fumigation record. Australian buyers ask for it because plant material can be held at the border. |
| Species and harvest-country data sheet | The botanical species, the country of harvest and the wood weight per unit. US buyers ask for these figures for the plant-product declaration they file at entry. |
| Fibre origin and legality data | Buyers importing wood and paper goods into the EU increasingly ask for the harvest origin and the legality data behind the fibre. |
Pet bowls and feeders
Bowls attract the most document requests of any family, because they touch food.
| Food-contact migration report | Run to the method your market names, per material and per colour. US buyers ask for it per component, including any lid, seal or coating. |
|---|---|
| European food-contact testing | European buyers of bowls ask for migration testing as a matter of course, and German buyers usually name their own national method. |
| Ceramic lead and cadmium migration | A migration report for ceramic bowls, with a written declaration naming the producing company and the importer. |
| Heavy metal and phthalate screening | Lead, cadmium and phthalates. Buyers selling into California ask for this one by name. |
| Steel grade statement | The steel bowls are 304 stainless steel. A mill certificate naming the grade for your own file is arranged with your order and named on your quotation. |
Cat toys, cat beds and textile parts
Felt shells, beds and catnip inserts each raise their own question.
| Catnip declaration | For a catnip insert: the species, the country of origin and any heat treatment applied to it. |
|---|---|
| Textile substance screening | A substance screening on textile and felt parts, with azo dye and formaldehyde results where a buyer asks for them. |
Your artwork, your labels
Any address block, care label or barcode your market asks for is part of your artwork. Send the text and Baiwei Pets sends a proof before anything is printed. Canadian buyers usually ask for bilingual English and French retail packaging, and that is an artwork job.
Artwork, the printing format and any artwork cost are confirmed on your quotation.
- Which documents exist for the exact product you order is confirmed on your quotation.
- The market each document is written for is confirmed on your quotation.
- Packaging format and artwork cost are confirmed on your quotation.
- Carton dimensions and pieces per carton for your reference are confirmed on your quotation.
- The trade term, the shipping mode and who arranges freight are confirmed on your quotation.
How a document request runs
Name the documents in your enquiry, with the destination country and the product. Your quotation names each document that comes with the order.
When and how each one reaches you is confirmed on your quotation.
Which documents does your market need?
Ask which documents apply to your market
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Or email the sales desk: sales@baiweipets.com