Resources
Insights & trade resources
Practical guidance on wholesale sourcing, logistics and FMCG market trends from the Iguazu Trading team.
- Guides
- 5
- Insights
- 6
- Market notes
- 3
01 — Trade guides
Trade guides
Reference pieces on the mechanics of an FMCG export order.
- EU-Sourced, EU Origin, Original Packaging: What Each One Means Why goods shipped from the EU are not automatically of EU origin, what exhaustion of rights permits, and how genuine, parallel, grey and counterfeit differ.
- FMCG Export Documentation: A Document-by-Document Reference Every document in an FMCG export file, layer by layer: invoice, packing list, B/L, export declaration, Certificate of Origin, EUR.1 and destination paperwork.
- Incoterms 2020 for FMCG Buyers: Cost, Risk and Where They Part EXW, FOB, CFR, CIF, DAP and DDP under Incoterms 2020: where risk really passes, who clears and insures, and how each term reshapes an FMCG landed cost.
- Pallets and Containers: A Loading Reference for FMCG EUR pallet and ISO container dimensions, payload limits and ISPM 15 marking, plus the cube-out versus weigh-out arithmetic that decides an FMCG load plan.
- Valencia or Barcelona? A Routing Comparison How Valencia and Barcelona differ for a container leaving inland Madrid: haulage, sailing frequency, groupage and which corridors suit which gateway.
02 — Insights
Insights
What is changing in sourcing, categories and destination rules.
- Bonded Storage for FMCG Importers: Timing, Not Exemption Customs warehousing suspends duty and import VAT rather than removing them. What that is worth on an FMCG load, what it costs, and where it quietly fails.
- Confectionery in Late 2026: What Has Actually Changed for Importers What has genuinely changed for confectionery importers this year: cocoa costs, the December deforestation deadline, packaging rules and the heat calendar.
- Export Documentation on a First FMCG Order: What Actually Happens A first export order in sequence: what the enquiry decides, what the pro-forma fixes, which certificates must precede loading, and where a week gets lost.
- Sourcing Skincare from Europe: What to Verify Before You Order What to verify before ordering European skincare wholesale: the label, the responsible person, destination registration, origin evidence and pallet build.
- Ranging Beverage Brands for Export: What Now Decides the Mix How to range beverage brands for export now that Gulf excise turns on sugar content, and how a drinks container is actually built and loaded out of Spain.
- Wholesale FMCG Sourcing: The Decisions That Are Expensive to Reverse A working method for EU FMCG sourcing: reading a supplier answer, structuring the load before the volume, and building a landed cost you can defend.
03 — Export markets
Export markets
Corridor notes on the destinations we ship to most.
- FMCG Wholesale Supply to Nigeria Nigeria runs on sequence: e-Form M before shipment, regulator approval per line, PAAR before arrival. How we build Lagos-bound containers around it.
- FMCG Wholesale Supply to the UAE EU-made FMCG shipped from Madrid to Jebel Ali: free zone or mainland entry, the 2026 sweetened-drinks excise, Arabic labelling and the origin file.
- FMCG Wholesale Supply to the United Kingdom Spain to Great Britain by pallet or trailer: how TCA preference is actually claimed, the filings each load generates, and what a grocery range adds on top.
04 — Reference
Reference
Definitions for the terms that appear on quotes and documents.