Exporting to Amazon USA from Kolkata
Kolkata anchors Eastern India with jute, leather, tea, textiles and handicrafts, and ships through Kolkata Port and nearby Haldia. Its east-coast location routes sea freight differently from western ports, but for the right categories, tea, jute homeware, craft, the products are distinctive and travel well.
For Amazon USA, Kolkata's tea and food sellers must clear FDA requirements, while jute and craft makers compete on differentiation. The efficient approach is to consolidate full containers through Kolkata or Haldia, forward to Think14's Austin facility, and drip-feed FBA, holding dated stock like tea in the US and feeding it in fresh, small batches.
What Think14 runs for you
Think14 forms your US LLC and EIN, coordinates freight via Kolkata or Haldia, clears US customs including food goods, preps and labels to Amazon spec, stores at flat rates, and files your US sales tax and IRS returns. For a Kolkata exporter, one partner owning the US side removes the parts of cross-border selling that usually stall first-timers.