Make food or health products in Canada and want to sell them in the U.S.? Before your goods can cross the border, the FDA — the U.S. agency that regulates them — requires specific paperwork. Get it wrong and your shipment gets held or turned back. We do that paperwork for you, pick up your products, and get them across. You don't have to learn any of it.
Using FedEx, DHL, Purolator or UPS? We guarantee we'll save you money →With a courier, the border is still your problem. You file the FDA paperwork, you answer the questions, and when a shipment gets held, you're the one chasing it while it sits there. We take all of it off your plate: one team files everything correctly the first time, handles customs and the FDA for you, and clears up any hold-ups before they turn into delays. You stop losing hours to paperwork and your goods move faster — and because the border is our whole job, you pay less than the courier charges, too.
If you're importing with FedEx, DHL, Purolator, UPS or another major carrier, we guarantee we'll save you a significant amount when you switch. Send us a recent invoice and we'll show you exactly how much.
We'll break down exactly what your courier charges you today, and show you precisely how much switching to us saves. See the number before you commit.
We take care of the confusing paperwork part. And if you'd rather not deal with any of it, we'll handle the pickup, storage, and shipping too.
This is the part that decides whether your shipment gets through or gets stopped. We fill it out and file it correctly, the first time.
We manage the actual border crossing so U.S. customs and the FDA let your shipment through.
Don't want to handle the shipping yourself? We'll pick your products up and store them until they're ready to cross.
Want us to run the whole thing? We'll arrange the transport and get your products to their final U.S. address.
Tell us what you're shipping. We check what the FDA needs and warn you about anything that could cause a problem.
We pick up your products in Canada — or you send them to our warehouse. Your choice.
We fill out and file all the FDA and customs paperwork for you. This is the part we're best at.
Your shipment crosses into the U.S. We watch it the whole way and deal with any hold-ups.
Your products arrive in the U.S., ready to sell — with clean records behind them.
We focus on the two things that are hardest to bring across the border: food and health products.
Packaged foods, drinks, vitamins, and supplements. We handle the FDA notice, registration, and label checks these need.
Medicines and drug products. These have stricter FDA rules, so we check what's allowed before anything ships.
Straight talk on medicines: The FDA has tighter rules for drugs than for food, and not everything is allowed into the U.S. We'll look at your specific product and tell you honestly whether it can be imported — and what it takes — before you spend a dollar.
Food and health imports are our only business. You get people who do this every single day — not a side service tacked onto shipping.
Paperwork, pickup, storage, and shipping all come from us. Fewer companies involved means fewer things that can go wrong.
If your product can't get in, we tell you upfront. Clear prices, clear steps, and a straight answer every time.
Pick a time below and we'll go over what you're selling, what the FDA needs, and how we'd get it across the border — in plain English, with no obligation.
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