About Iguazu Trading
Iguazu Trading is the trading name of Iguazu Fragancias SL, a Spanish company supplying branded consumer goods to trade buyers abroad. This page sets out what that means in practice — the legal identity, the sourcing, the way an order runs, and the things we will not tell you.
The entity on the invoice
Start with the part a customs broker cares about. Iguazu Trading is a trading name; the company behind it is Iguazu Fragancias SL, a Spanish company whose registered office is at Calle Navalmanzano 6 B, 28035 Madrid, with NIF B22678338 and EU VAT number ESB22678338. Those details appear on the pro-forma, the commercial invoice and the export declaration, and they are checkable in the Spanish register before you send anyone money.
We mention this early because a large share of the trouble in this trade comes from the opposite situation — an offer arriving from a company name that resolves to nothing, an invoice from one jurisdiction and a bank account in another, a seller who becomes hard to reach the week after payment clears. An export file that names a real Spanish company at a verifiable address, with a VAT and EORI registration your broker can check, is not a marketing claim. It is the minimum, and it is the first thing a serious buyer verifies.
What we are is a trade-only seller. We supply importers, distributors, wholesalers, cash-and-carry operators, retail groups and re-exporters, and we do not sell to consumers — there is no retail channel behind this business, which is why registration asks what you do with the goods rather than only where to send them.
Where the goods come from, and what we do to them
Every line we offer is produced in the European Union and bought inside it, through direct and documented trade channels. Stock leaves us in the manufacturer's own sealed packaging: original outer cartons, original artwork, the batch coding the plant printed. We do not repack, relabel, decant or re-box, and we do not sell goods whose packaging has been opened and reconstructed.
That single restriction determines a lot of what follows. It means the market version of a line is a fact about the goods rather than something that can be adjusted after the order — the language set on the pack, the ingredient and allergen declaration, the date format, the presence or absence of a market-specific mark. It means date coding cannot be improved for a destination with a demanding shelf-life rule, only allocated around. And it means we can tell you exactly what will be on the pallet, because it is the same case the producer shipped to us. Where that pack will not satisfy your destination, the honest answer is that the allocation does not suit you, and we prefer to give it before the pro-forma rather than after the container is sealed.
Before a lot is offered we check the things that decide whether a consignment clears: format and market version, the language set on the artwork, batch codes and best-before dates, case and pallet integrity, and whether the labelling fits the destination you named. A lot that fails those checks does not reach your offer, which is why an offer is sometimes narrower than the enquiry that prompted it. The reasoning behind the sourcing model is set out in what “EU-sourced” actually means, and the verification side in our authenticity and compliance position.
What we deliberately do not claim
We are an independent distributor of genuine brand-owner stock. We are not a licensee, an appointed agent, an authorised distributor or an exclusive partner of any manufacturer, we do not describe ourselves as one, and we decline requests to be described as one in a buyer's own tender documents. Brand names on this site are the property of their owners and are used descriptively, to say what we supply. That is a legal position rather than a modest one, and it is worth understanding why it matters to you: a supplier willing to invent an appointment for its own website is a supplier willing to invent other things.
Nor will you find a founding date, a headcount, a client list, a testimonial or a list of certifications on this page. Not because there is nothing to say, but because anything of that kind that cannot be evidenced is a liability dressed as reassurance, and buyers who have been burned once are rightly unimpressed by round numbers. What can be evidenced, we put in writing on the pro-forma: the batch, the dating, the origin status, the pack, the pallet configuration, the term and the documents.
One more thing you will not find: a price. There are no prices anywhere on this site and no price ranges, because a real number depends on the variant, the quantity, the destination, the term and what is allocatable that week. Every quotation is written against a specific enquiry, and on listed brands we aim to come back within one business day.
How an order actually runs
The sequence rarely varies, and knowing it in advance removes most of the friction from a first purchase.
- Enquiry. You send the lines with variants and pack formats, the quantity you buy in, the destination and the Incoterm you trade on. Anything you already know about your market's labelling or registration requirements belongs here, at the point where it is still cheap to accommodate.
- Allocation. We check what is actually available against your specification — not what the catalogue lists, but what can be committed — and identify the lot.
- Pro-forma. The offer states the goods, the batch and best-before dating, the pack and pallet construction, the term with its named place, the payment terms and the documents that will travel. This is the controlling document; a purchase order that contradicts it does not change it.
- Payment and loading. Terms are settled before allocation is held. Goods are picked, palletised, wrapped and sealed at our Madrid consolidation facility, and the load is built to the plan quoted rather than to whatever fits on the day.
- Documents. Commercial invoice, packing list, export declaration and transport document travel with every consignment, with origin evidence following where the goods were made — a EUR.1 movement certificate where the goods qualify and the destination's agreement provides for it, a Certificate of Origin otherwise.
Payment terms, the Incoterms we quote and how credit is treated are set out on the Incoterms and payment terms page rather than being negotiated case by case in correspondence.
Why the desk sits in Madrid
Consolidation happens inland, in the Madrid region, which is a deliberate position rather than an accident of address. An inland consolidation point sits a day's road haul from two of Europe's largest container gateways — Valencia at roughly 355 km and Barcelona at roughly 620 km — with Algeciras available for transhipment and the Coslada dry port giving a rail option. Because the goods do not start at a port, the port is a variable in your quotation rather than a constraint on it: we load through whichever gateway catches the sailing your lane needs.
It also means mixed loads are the norm rather than a favour. Beverages, confectionery, coffee, snacks, sauces, household, personal care and baby lines can travel on one invoice, one transport document and one customs entry, so freight is paid once across categories that would otherwise come from a dozen different sellers. That is the practical case for buying from a distributor at all, and how a load is built, sealed and routed explains the constraints that decide what can share a box.
Orders run from a single case through pallets and mixed pallets to full container loads, and which suits you is a function of your rotation rather than a threshold we impose. Where we ship is not a list — the corridors we document are examples of detail, not limits of reach.
The questions that actually stall a deal
Most of what a first-time buyer needs from a supplier is not enthusiasm. It is a straight answer to four questions: what exactly is the pack, what dating will arrive, which origin document applies, and what does my agent need that cannot be issued after the goods move. Those are the questions this site is organised around, and they are the ones our replies lead with.
If a line is not available, we say so rather than substituting quietly. If a destination requirement cannot be met from available stock, we say that too. If a document you have been told to expect does not exist for your corridor — the EUR.1 requested for a market with no agreement behind it is the standing example — we will explain why instead of issuing something decorative. Send the range, the destination and the term, and you will get a specific answer or a specific reason there is not one yet.