US Market Entry
Most of the brands we talk to are built outside the United States. They have a product that works at home, distribution in nearby markets, and a plan to be on Amazon in the US. What stops them is rarely demand. It is the American operation the plan quietly assumes: an importer of record, a Seller Central account, a warehouse, working capital tied up in inventory, and somebody in the right time zone when something breaks. This page explains how brands enter the US through Karimex instead, what we take on, and what stays with you.
Getting a product sold in the United States is mostly a question of logistics and accountability rather than marketing. Someone has to be named as the importer of record on the customs entry. Someone has to hold the Seller Central account and answer to Amazon for it. Someone has to prep and label units to FBA requirements, receive what comes back, and carry the working capital while stock sits in a fulfillment center waiting to sell.
Brands usually plan for the first shipment. The surprise is everything that follows it, and how much of it has to sit with a party that is actually in the country.
You sell your inventory to Karimex at wholesale. We are a Nevada company and a subsidiary of Karimer LLC, so the purchase is a normal export sale for you: one buyer, one invoice, payment in a currency and on terms we agree in advance. From the moment title passes, the US side is ours to run.
We bring the goods in, prepare them for FBA, and operate your listings from a single Seller Central account as the authorized seller of record. Duty and customs handling are part of the landed cost that sits inside the wholesale price we negotiate, which means you are quoting one number rather than reconstructing an American cost structure from a distance.
Manufacturing and quality control stay where they belong. So does your pricing policy: we hold the MAP you set, we do not set it for you. Your trademarks and your Brand Registry enrollment remain in your name, with Karimex added as an authorized party rather than substituted for you.
Compliance is the part worth being precise about. We handle what a distributor can legitimately hold, and registrations that US law requires the manufacturer or brand owner to hold in its own name stay with you. Which of those apply depends entirely on your category, so we work through them during the first review instead of promising to absorb obligations we cannot legally carry.
We agree on the Incoterm before the first purchase order, because it decides who books the freight, who clears the goods, and where the cost of each step lands. Whether you deliver to a US port or we arrange collection from your factory, the point is that both sides know exactly where responsibility changes hands.
The first order is deliberately modest. It is sized to test demand, listing conversion, and the freight math on a narrow set of products, not to fill a warehouse with assumptions. If you want the wider picture of the routes available to an overseas brand, we wrote it up in how overseas brands sell on Amazon USA.
This works for established brands with real quality behind the product, entering the US on what the product is rather than on price. It works when you would rather have a short, named authorized-seller list than the widest possible distribution, and when one accountable partner in the market is more useful to you than an office you have to build and staff.
If the goal is maximum reach at the lowest possible price, a single-distributor model is the wrong structure and we will say so early. If it is not, the next step is a short conversation. You can also read how the partnership runs day to day on the how it works page.
Questions From Overseas Brands
No. You sell to Karimex, a Nevada company, and invoice from your own entity in your own country. We are the buyer on the purchase order and the US importer on the shipment. Setting up an American entity, a US bank account, and a Seller Central account of your own is exactly the work this arrangement removes.
Karimex, on the shipments we buy from you. Customs handling and duty are part of the landed cost we factor into wholesale terms, so you are quoting one price rather than tracking a US cost structure. If you already have a US import setup you would rather keep using, we can work with it.
We handle what a distributor can hold: the customs entry, FBA prep and labeling, and compliance at the listing level. Registrations that US law requires the manufacturer or brand owner to hold in its own name stay with you. Which ones apply depends on your category, and we flag them during the first review rather than after the first shipment.
Yes. The arrangement covers the US marketplace. We do not ask for exclusivity outside it, and nothing about your existing distributors or your own direct sales at home needs to change.
Small enough to be a real test. The first purchase order is sized to validate demand, listing conversion, and the freight math on a narrow set of products. We would rather learn the category on a modest order than leave either side holding a warehouse full of assumptions.
We take on a small number of brands at a time. Tell us what you make and where you sell it today, and we will tell you honestly whether the US is worth entering this way.