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AliExpress Ships From The USA And Europe Instead Of China!

By Andrey Y.

AliExpress Ships From The USA And Europe

It would be great to ship the AliExpress goods to your US customers right from the USA instead of China, wouldn’t it? And how about letting your European clients receive their packages from the UK or Spain?

Sounds even better, doesn’t it?

So, let’s see how you can make AliExpress ship from USA and Europe – and multiply customer satisfaction!

Why the service delivery time matter?

Why is it important for AliExpress to ship from USA?

What is so great about dropshipping?

The short answer is, it’s a level playing field!

No matter what’s your startup resources, you can launch your dropshipping business and be riding high in the shortest time.

Your success is up to you.

To lead the field, you should always work towards refinement. In other words, you need to look for something that will give you the edge over your competitors.

In AliExpress dropshipping business, entrepreneurs run up against the challenge of long delivery time from China.

Although customers are usually ready to put up with this, the shipping time reduction would certainly allow you to win more clients along with their praise.

Imagine your clients from Spain receiving their items in 7 days or less instead of waiting a month until they arrive from China.

It would make a difference, wouldn’t it?

The good news is that it’s possible!

Your business model doesn’t have to be tied down to China. Many AliExpress sellers have warehouses in the USA and European countries.

So, you can cut down your delivery time and ship the products to your customers right from the United States, Spain, France and other countries.

How to find an AliExpress supplier to ship from the USA

Many entrepreneurs want to dropship products to the United States viewing it as the largest and most promising market.

Still, when you target the US customers, you should be ready to outperform a powerful rival – Amazon. This ecommerce platform dominates the online shopping market in the USA.

And while dropshipping entrepreneurs can beat Amazon with their prices, it could be hard to compete with it in terms of shipping time.

Amazon warehouses are located in the United States. So, it takes 5-7 days for it to deliver their goods. Of course, shipping from China can’t be so fast.

However, as we mentioned before, many AliExpress sellers store their products in the US. So, you can shorten your shipping time up to 6 times!

AliExpress shipping from the USA

AliExpress shipping from the USA 2

Things become even better when you figure out how to find such suppliers on AliExpress. It’s really a piece of cake.

You just need to set the country where you want to ship your goods to (United States) on the top of AliExpress main page and pick the category of products you need. Then, in the “Ship from” field, you should choose “United States” and…

Here they are! You see all the suppliers storing the necessary products in the USA.

AliExpress suppliers ship from the USA

Easy, right?

Yet, it may be even easier if you use AliDropship plugin. You can import already pre-edited items to your store from AliDropship database. It contains the most popular products from the best AliExpress suppliers.

And you can easily sort out those who have warehouses in the United States. For this, you just need to click on “Import” tab.

alidropship import

On your left, you’ll see “Ship to” and “Ship from” fields. Choose “United States” and you’re good to go. Pick out the products you like from the list and please your American customers with the fast delivery.

AliDropship "ship from" fields

How to find an AliExpress supplier to ship from Europe

Many dropshipping entrepreneurs focus too much on the USA whereas European market stays a bit overlooked. However, it may have even bigger prospects than the United States.

While the US is flooded with offers from different ecommerce stores, the European Union has much more room to let your online business spread the wings.

Besides, your European customer base will grow much faster if your clients know that they may get their dropshipping orders in the shortest time.

So, the things you need to do to implement this are not much different from the task you carry out when searching for suppliers shipping from the USA.

The only difference is that you pick the UK, Spain, France or other European country you need in “Ship to” and “Ship from” fields.

AliExpress supplier to ship from Europe

Yet, the beauty of dropshipping to Europe is that if you want to ship your goods to Germany, it’s not necessary to find a supplier with the warehouse in Germany. You can pick the ones who stores their products in Spain or another European country. It’s going to be fast as well.

Some AliExpress sellers might even have warehouses in several countries, which you could make a good use of.

AliExpress sellers have warehouses in several European countries
For AliDropship users, the process is traditionally easier. You just choose “Europe” in the “Ship from” field and the European country you need to deliver your products to in the “Ship to” field.
AliDropship “Ship to” field

The success of your online store lies in your ability to stand out from your competitors. One of the things that can help you with this task is a fast delivery. If you know how to find a supplier to ship your products from the USA, Spain, the UK and other countries, you can pull it off and make your business flourish.

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By Andrey Y.
Andrey has just joined AliDropship team. He’s exploring dropshipping business from the very beginning. And, he’s going to share with you the most essential things newcomers need to know.
24 Comments
Eric 4 years ago

I already thought about it but unfortunately, it doesn’t work for France…. 🙁 (unless I missed it)
When I choose Spain (for the warehouse), they doesn’t ship to France….

Andrey Y. 4 years ago

Hi, Eric!
Thank you for letting us know about it.
Honestly, we’ve never heard of this problen before. And it’s really strange that a supplier with the warehouse in Spain can’t deliver products to France. It must have been a kind of mistake or something. At least, I don’t see any serious obstacles for shipping goods within the EU.
You can find the same supplier and try it again or choose another one. It must be working!

Jorge 4 years ago

Hello 🙂

I find many suppliers doing this, they have the item let’s say in Spain, so they only ship from Spain to Spain, they don’t ship to Portugal too for example. I found some from France that doesn’t ship to Portugal too…

Maybe we need to start a conversation with them asking for help in these situations and if they can workaround that so they can ship to Portugal or for the entire EU 🙂

Tunde 4 years ago

I am totally new to drop shopping. Kindly guide me on how to get started.

John 4 years ago

I’m interested in shipping to the UK but can’t find any products that are shipped from the UK, though this was implied in the article. In addition, many suppliers are charging ridiculous amounts to ship from France to the UK – for example, a small order available from China with free shipping or e-packet shipping for 2.21 UKP costs 13.27 UKP from France (no options). I accept that delivery from France will be quicker but 6 times more expensive!! 13.27 UKP for a product costing less than 2.00 UKP is extreme and this isn’t even the worst example – some similarly priced products have shipping costs from France that are over 20 UKP!!

Andrey Y. 4 years ago

Hi, John!
Thank you for your comment.
I’ve just looked for products that you could ship for free from Europe to the UK in AliDropship database and I found more than 100 results.
You just need to follow the steps describing in the article. Click on “Import” tab, then set “Europe” in “Shipping from” field and “United Kingdom” in ” Shipping to” field, put a tick in “Free shipping” box. And you’re done.

Max 4 years ago

Don’t forget that if you ship from the US based warehouse/facility/agent etc. to American customers, you create Nexus and have to pay taxes there with all kinds of financial arrangements involved. Same with Europe and their VAT. You’ll probablly get away with that at first, but long-term it’s not viable, if you don’t do everything legally.

Akhter Hussain 4 years ago

Hi Andrey Y.
Can you please comment on this because shipping from the US to US customer can not be done unless you collect tax and pay to the tax authorities. It will not only increase the cost of the product but also a lot of paperwork and will take time to file reports etc. Thanks

Andrey Y. 4 years ago

Hi there!
Thank you for your comment.
Unfortunately, we cannot advise and educate people on tax issues. US taxation depends on plenty of things and each state has its own rules. You’d better discuss this with a specialist in private!

Artur J. 4 years ago

Hi Andrey, I’m interested in shipping to the UK as well. Is combined shipping from Europe to UK available? How would I make sure the customer receives 1 package if they ordered 5 goods at the same time? Is that possible?

Nana 4 years ago

It’s just sad drop shipping in Africa. Long shipping time and and your guides doesn’t cover anything about Africa . I own and store for a year now and I am beginning to think I wish I knew all these before I got into it. All guide covers USA and European countries

Andrey Y. 4 years ago

Hi, Nana!
Thank you for your comment.
The USA and the EU are the biggest and most profitable markets. So we cover this topic in details because entrepreneurs want to find out as much as possible about dropshipping to the United States and Europe. You can also target both of these markets. Your location isn’t an obstacle.
Speaking about Africa, you can find quite enough articles on this topic in our blog, here are some of them that could be useful for you
/dropshipping-in-south-africa/
/drop-shipping-africa/
/international-dropshipping-guide/
/7-facts-about-drop-shipping-in-nigeria/
/ecommerce-affiliate-success-story-nigeria/

Rosemary 4 years ago

Am new in dropship. Please guide me. My major concern is the time of delivery. Meanwhile am into furniture.

Andrey Y. 4 years ago

Hi, Rosemary!
Thank you for your comment!
Unfortunately, I’ve got my hands full with my work. But, I recommend you get in touch with the guys from Dropship Club, they will definitely help you out. Here is the link https://dropship.club/

Eyvette 4 years ago

Great article Andrey. I try to shop from the USA and will look more for those products. Please keep sending info on shipping because in the USA it makes it difficult especially with Amazon

Julio Navarro 4 years ago

He hecho tal como ustedes sugieren enviar a united states y desde USA pero cuando le doy add to cart me sale un mensaje
que dice La region que usted eligio no es elegible. Yo estoy en Honduras, Central America y logicamente el sistema me tira
al perfil mio en aliexpress con mi direccion . Como se puede hacer para comprar del metodo que ustedes proponen y enviar
a un casilllero en Miami para que luego lo envien a mi pais……??

Olga L. 4 years ago

Hi, thank you for your question!

Please contact our support team at support@aliexpress-na-russkom.ru and attach the screenshots so that our specialists could understand how to help you.

Pauline Can 4 years ago

Thank you for the information Andrey. What if I click for a range of products to be sent from the US but there’s a buyer from Europe?

Martin 4 years ago

Hello,

I am in EU, so VAT applies if you have a VAT ID (above a certain limit of sales for each country). I guess you do not need to pay VAT in EU if you do not reach that limit or if you voluntarily apply for VAT ID. The downside is that you will probably not be able to deduct input VAT for product purchases. But these Chinese businesses must have local EU VAT in the place where they store stocks, but the Aliexpress platform will not give you proper invoices with local EU VAT applied I guess.

But the customer not paying customs and other fees on import to EU is a great benefit in this case. Just cant imagine a business, where you make the customer wait for 30 days and then make him go to the local bureau to sign a protocol for receiving goods from overseas….

One thing that is missing in Aliexpress and Alidropship Woo is the shipping price filter. 🙂 I would accept a certain price for shipping from EU, not free necessarily. But if you like a product, clink on it and randomly see shipping, it varies from 2 to 30 EUR. So you have to click on products that you like to check that out…sad story.

Angel 4 years ago

Shipping from is no longer available on my side…anyone else with the same issue?

Olga L. 4 years ago

Hi, thank you for your question!

Most likely, this is due to the fact that Chinese government has extended the period of the Lunar New Year Holiday due to the current coronavirus outbreak – please, read more details here: /dropshipping-and-coronavirus/

Jean Hood 4 years ago

Please advise where to find suppliers or USA warehouses. Already have custom store waiting to go viral

Olga L. 4 years ago

Hi, thank you for your interest!
Please, watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqwnqnSpEkE

MOHAMMAD SADIK ALNAJJAR 3 years ago

Hi
some suppliers in United states do not ship to united states

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