Guides

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Plain-English guides to buying from US, China and UAE stores and getting it delivered to the UAE & India.

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Learn the playbook.

A simple guide to buying from US online stores in the UAE — even ones that don't ship here — using a free forwarding address.

How customs duty and VAT work on personal online imports to the UAE, and how GLOBEXA keeps the costs transparent.

Package consolidation combines multiple parcels into one shipment to cut international shipping costs — here's how it works.

Carriers bill on volumetric (dimensional) weight when a parcel is bulky but light. Here's the formula and how to reduce it.

Some US stores only accept US cards or won't ship abroad. Here's how a personal shopper service gets you the item anyway.

A guide to buying global and UAE-exclusive products and shipping them to India via a UAE consolidation hub.

Claim your free GLOBEXA address — founding members get their first verification free.