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Overview

Overview

  • Foreign production for American consumption
  • Finding proper products/packaging/pricing
  • Transparent physical and financial reporting
  • Warehousing and distribution
  • eCommerce website 
  • Amazon expertise
  • Customs 
  • American bank account
  • Disposal of excess inventory

Please Note: ACImporting does not own any products. We represent your products in the American consumer market.

ACImporting programs create an AMERICAN SPHERE for manufacturers overseas. We expect active involvement on a continuing basis.

You will have transparent accounting, inventory, sales reports, etc. online and up-to-date.

We will work with you for customer support and service.

Distribution Channels

Retail Stores

Big Box

Selling to big bix stores or chains requires a completely different supply-chain model.

Small Stores

ACImporting can only provide sales channels through the internet. 

For small retailers they can be set up as wholesale accounts on your websites. Delivery to small stores is by UPS.

Internet Channels

Your eCommerce Websites

As many eCommerce sites as your brands require

Amazon

Top level experts

Walmart

Good channel

Third Party

Like Walmart and Target

 

QVC HSN TV

Probable channel after three years of custom apparel.

Boxed Products

A boxed product is shipped and sold in a retail box created for the American market.

Size and Weight

ACImporting can handle only products under 2.5 kilos (5 lbs.) and under 30cm x 30cm x 30cm (12"x12"x12"), the size we have handled in our warehouse for 25 years.

We maintain a large, heated storage warehouse for smaller products. 

The small products fit in with Amazon's requirements. 

Retail Packaging

You should procure local packaging production.

All products are shipped in the retail box combined into carboard containers UPS can deliver.

We can help you design American style packaging with your brand logo as we have for our own products.

Production

All products will be checked for acceptability for selling in America.

We do not want to micro-manage production. If your quality is excellent all is good.

We will work with producers designing products fitting well with automation.

Producers keeping up with technology are desireable.

Apparel Products

Custom Apparel

A business plan for the custom apparel is available on this website. Click here:.SittingONARainbow.com.

Please note only one way to be successful in the custom apparel business through the business plan implementation.

Quickly, you will need direct-to-fabric printing, laser cutting, our software and the trained people to operate. Cloth apparel will need sewing facilities. The full-bodied knitting department requires many expensive and complicated machines. Many supporting services will help implementtion. Differing from our plan will mean greater expense and may not be allowed.

Mass Apparel

After three years of custom apparel production the mass market can be addressed. The time will create recognizable brand names and channels for large orders buyers to help create orders. We will carry more sizes and fits than other manufacturers, a distinct advantage. 

Sorry that we must spend time developing a superior product for the mass apparel.

Packages and Pricing

Starting Package

If you would like to tell us more about your goals, here is a form to help both you and us get a better understanding: Click Here for Query Form

Planning and implementing these services before sales begin:

  • Large regional bank
  • Transparent accounting practices
    • Quickbooks provides online accessibility at all times
    • General ledger journals enable auditing clarity
  • Storage
    • Estimate storage requirements and cost
    • Large storage facitlity is on our warehouse property
    • Use  of Amazon storage if selling on Amazon
  • Reporting
    • Wide range of preset reports 
    • Online and realtime
  • E-Commerce Website
    • We currently operate 3 eCommerce websites
    • Summation realtime reporting
    • Newsletter 
    • Loyalty programs
  • Logistics
    • Package size 12" (15 cm) x 12" x 12" and under 5 lbs (2.25 kilograms)
    • Consolidated carton max size UPS can deliver
    • Set up UPS, FedEx, and USPS accounts
  • Product mix form for evaluation
  • Pricing strategies
  • Distribution
    • Direct ecommerce customer
    • Amazon
    • Walmart, Target, Etsy, and more third party channels
  • American culture
    • How it applies today
    • How it applies to the future
  • Growth outlooks and strategies
  • Advertising
    • Which media
    • Defining your sales and branding messages
  • Competition Analysis
    • Who is your competition
    • Possible competition for future products

Growth Package

After establishing your presence in America, the time to look at growing. 

During this time profits may be lost to increasing the customer base.

Advertising starts as well as feeding the search engines. 

More later.

Long-term Package

After a period of time saless and profits will plateau. This is a plan to keep profits at a level amount.

Everything is settled in and working for years at a time.

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  • ACImporting does not own your products. You own them until sold to end customer.
  • ACImporting can handle only products under 2.5 kilos (5 lbs.) and under 30cm x 30cm x 30cm (12"x12"x12"), the size we have handled for 25 years.
  • Insurance is necessary for import shipping. We have no responsibility for breakage.
  • Products need to be tested and approved by ACImporting.
  • Your factory may need to be certified by several organizations.

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American Century Importing      350 N. Church St.    Robesonia, PA 19551     212-769-3220
www.AmericanCenturyImporting.com or www.ACimporting.com       

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Understanding the Post-Trump World: We need to be ready to take advantage of a rare opportunity.


American Century Importing: The gateway to tomorrow's automation

The shift from Adam Smith manufacturing to tomorrow's manufacturing

Although Adam Smith is generally correct, the time of the most efficient country supplying other countries is over: modern manufacturing can produce very efficient products in many places. I do not expect you to read "The Wealth of Nations", a very long, complicated but correct book.

What's the difference of the past to our modern future? What are the potential opportunities?

In the Adam Smith era just finishing, a producer would sell to an exporter who then sold to an importer/distributor and then to the final customer (who may return the product).

In today's world of international communications, one owner from any one position on the supply chain, could control and ensure high quality and good design without having to compromise. ACImporting.com provides tools to manage the supply chain which also manages your sales and profits.

Modern apparel, as well as many other manufactured products, custom or off-the-rack, needs today's and tomorrow's innovations.

Do you think your products will do better being directly under your control?

 

For American Century Importing, everything we help you currently accomplish provides preparation for the post-Trump era where our style of manufacturing will produce new products at very reasonable, if not inexpensive, products for mass consumption. I believe it will take three years of custom apparel production to provide a structure for mass production of apparel, but that is a particular project (SittingOnARainbow). And from my redesign (not only just me, of course) for automated production things will never be the same. In fact, they will be much better. Women's clothing, for one important thing, being more attractive couldn't hurt anything.

Trump is providing a trade crisis while trying to equalize trade imbalances. Whereas his methods may or may not succeed, American Century Importing chooses not to wait or depend on government actions or non-actions.

I have been working on how industry can return to American shores for 20 years. I have been waiting for the opportunity provided by the crisis created by Trump. In fact, Manufacturing Villages, my project, will accomplish Trump's goals creating a winning situation for everyone.

As well as anyone, American Century Importing knows what is going on and what the issues needing addressing.

Richard Pearlman
Chief Engineer/VP of Engineering

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Please note: At present apparel is not a practical import. This form is for physical products 12" x 12" x 12" and under 5 lbs.

This form will help us determine if we can work together.

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