Sourcing and export services for resin and gum buyers

One lot, a year of lots, or work at origin to your own brief. In the first two we are the seller. In the third we act for you.

One lot, sampled first

Our role: Seller
For: A first order, a trial, or a need that comes up now and then.
You bring: Material, grade, quantity and destination.
We do: Buy, sort, grade, pack, document and ship that lot.
You get: A sample and photographs of the lot before you order, then the goods with a lot list and export documents.
Commitment: One order at a time.
How we are paid: A price per kilogram, quoted for a named lot.

Recurring lots to one specification

Our role: Seller
For: A buyer who needs the same material again and again through a season or a year.
You bring: A specification, an expected volume and how often you want to ship.
We do: Plan the buying around the harvest and make up each lot to the same written specification.
You get: A shipment schedule, the same document set with every lot, and one contact on each side.
Commitment: A season or a year, written into a programme agreement.
How we are paid: A price basis written into the programme agreement.

Work at origin, to your brief

Our role: Your agent at origin
For: A company that needs things done in Somaliland and has nobody there.
You bring: Your own specification, protocol or suppliers, and what you need to know from origin.
We do: The work the scope names: supplier coordination, buying, aggregation, sorting, local transport, documents or reporting.
You get: The work done to your instructions, and a written report with photographs.
Commitment: A scope agreed for each engagement.
How we are paid: A fee agreed with the scope. Goods bought on your account are invoiced separately.

What does not change

However you work with us, the goods pass through the same stages and leave the same records.

A written specification: Type, grade, quantity, packing and terms are agreed in writing before anything is ordered.
A sample of the lot: You see photographs and a graded sample of the lot on offer before you order.
A lot number: Every bag carries it. It is the same number on the packing list, the invoice and the lot list.
Two named people: Abdirahman Hussein in Hargeisa for the goods, Hamza Abdi in Canada for the contract and the account.

Are you the seller, or an agent?: For product supply and supply programmes we are the seller: we buy the resin, prepare it, and sell it to you under a contract. In origin operations we act for you, under a scope and a fee agreed for the engagement.
What is the difference between product supply and a supply programme?: Product supply is one order: you ask, we quote for a lot, you approve the sample, we ship. A programme agrees the specification, the expected volume and the shipment dates for a season or a year in advance, so that we can plan the buying around the harvest and you can plan production around the deliveries.
Can you work to our own specification and quality protocol?: Send it with your RFQ. We tell you which parts we can meet as written, which need an outside laboratory, and which we cannot meet.
Which countries do you ship to?: We publish no list of destinations. Tell us yours in the RFQ and we will say whether we can quote it. Under our standard term, FOB Berbera, the goods go to the port your forwarder names, subject to export and import rules. CIF to your port is quoted on request.
How do we start?: With one lot. Send an RFQ, test the sample, and place a small first order. If the material and the service suit you, a programme is the next conversation.

Tell us the material, grade, quantity and destination.