Leading enterprises trust FGX to import mission-critical IT hardware
Import IT hardware internationally, without delays or unexpected costs
Importing IT hardware around the world comes with high duties, strict compliance requirements, and complex logistics for global enterprises. These challenges cause delays and cost overruns for IT deployments. Smoothly navigating them requires a logistics partner with deep expertise in importing IT hardware globally. With a 99.98% clearance success rate and 10+ years of experience, FGX helps logistics teams and network engineers deliver IT hardware across borders faster, with lower risk and fewer customs delays.
Sourcing IT hardware for your destination? Here’s how to do it right
When you source IT hardware for global deployments, you have two options: buy it in your destination market, or import from a trusted supplier. Purchasing from an in-market vendor eliminates shipping complexity, but often comes with high markups and limited stock. While importing hardware gives you better pricing and procurement flexibility, it also requires navigating customs, duties, and compliance. The right approach for your business depends on your supply chain, operational priorities, and cost requirements.
The problem with buying IT hardware in your destination market
If an in-market vendor has the IT hardware you need in stock, it can offer convenience by eliminating the need to manage shipping and compliance. However, working with these vendors has drawbacks:
Unlock wide inventory and cost savings through global shipping
Instead of managing multiple in-market resellers across different regions, centralized procurement combined with a specialized international logistics strategy ensures standardized IT deployments, cost predictability, and faster delivery.
Shipping IT hardware internationally unlocks cost savings, strengthens your supply chain control, and increases procurement flexibility. With the right strategy, you can take full advantage of these benefits while avoiding common shipping challenges such as customs bottlenecks, transit delays, and unexpected costs. Here’s how to take advantage of this opportunity:
Step 1: Source from HQ or a preferred vendor
Sourcing IT hardware from the same country as your company’s headquarters or a trusted supplier enables bulk pricing, SKU standardization, and better supply chain control. This approach also helps you avoid regional markups, inconsistencies.
Step 2: Use FGX to handle global IT logistics
FGX manages the entire global shipping process, eliminating compliance risks and logistical challenges. This includes the Importer of Record (IOR) setup, in which we determine the best approach to ensure smooth customs clearance. Through pre-clearance feasibility checks, FGX verifies all permits, tax structures, and HS codes before shipping to prevent delays. We use the fastest, most secure shipping routes and direct air freight, instead of slower, high-risk methods. FGX supports cost optimization by looking for opportunities to reduce duties, reclaim VAT, and avoid unnecessary import tax liabilities.
Step 3: Deliver hardware to its destination
Once shipments arrive, FGX handles customs clearance, pre-funded duties and taxes, and secure last-mile delivery, ensuring everything arrives on time and fully compliant. By combining centralized procurement with FGX’s global logistics expertise, companies can deploy IT infrastructure faster, at a lower cost, and with complete regulatory confidence.
How FGX imports IT hardware into your destination country
Global IT logistics, done right
Leading enterprises trust FGX to import mission-critical IT hardware with a 99.98% customs clearance success rate. We provide coverage in 174 countries, including highly regulated markets like Brazil.
