Guides for importers and distributors.
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How to build a metal-indexed price list (with a calculator)
The formula to tie each price to copper, aluminium and the exchange rate, a worked example, the mistakes that leak margin and a free calculator.
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Price lists tied to metal, currency and margin, and how to keep them up to date.
Odoo and metal-indexed price lists: what pricelists can and can’t do
What an Odoo 19 pricelist rule can calculate, read from its code, where a copper or aluminium index does not fit, and a 12-point check for your own system.
Simulator · 12 Oct 2026 · 6 minHow often to update a price list when copper moves (simulator with real data)
How often to update a price list when copper and the dollar move: a simulator that replays three years of real monthly prices against your margin.
Trade rules and duties
CBAM, anti-dumping and the dates that change what an import costs.
The CBAM 50-tonne threshold: what happens when you cross it (with a simulator)
Under CBAM an importer is exempt up to 50 t of net mass a year. Cross it and every tonne of the year counts. The rule, the 2027 dates and a free simulator.
Timeline · 12 Oct 2026 · 7 minEU anti-dumping on copper tubes from China: timeline and cost simulator
Case AD750 on copper tube in level wound coils from China, Mexico, Vietnam and Uzbekistan: key dates, retroactive risk and a landed cost simulator.
Data · 12 Oct 2026 · 7 minCBAM cost per tonne of steel and aluminium from China, 2026-2034
What CBAM costs per tonne of Chinese hot-rolled steel and unwrought aluminium each year to 2034, with EU default values and a free calculator.
Containers
Documents, incoterms and everything between the factory and your warehouse.
Import documents by incoterm: who provides each one for a container from China
Which documents a container from China needs to clear customs in Spain, who provides each one under EXW, FCA, FOB, CFR, CIF, DAP and DDP, and a checklist.
Calculator · 12 Oct 2026 · 7 minLanded cost calculator: from a container from China to your price list
Spread a container’s freight, duties and port costs over each item, get the landed cost per unit and turn it into list and customer prices. Free calculator.
Calculator · 12 Oct 2026 · 7 minHow many pallets fit in a 40ft container (and in a 20ft and a high cube)
Euro pallets and 1200 × 1000 pallets in a 20ft, 40ft and 40ft high cube: the floor layout in numbers, when weight or height binds, and a free calculator.
Calculator · 12 Oct 2026 · 8 minVGM calculation, Method 2: how to work out a container’s verified gross mass
Method 2 VGM step by step: package gross mass, pallets, dunnage, securing and tare, who declares it, the deadline, the tolerance and what Spain requires.
Orders
From the order your customer sends to the invoice you collect.
AI order entry from email: from inbox to draft order, and the errors to catch
How an order sent by email, PDF, Excel or photo becomes a draft order, the five errors to catch before confirming, and a simulator to test your own lines.
Checklist · 12 Oct 2026 · 8 minB2B ordering portal with customer-specific prices: the 12 rules it has to enforce
The 12 price, order and account rules a B2B ordering portal must enforce so customers never type a price, with a free checklist and Shopify B2B’s limits.
Calculator · 12 Oct 2026 · 7 minLate payment interest calculator (EU): the rate, the €40 and payment terms
Calculate late payment interest on a B2B invoice in the EU: the ECB rate plus 8 points by half-year, the fixed €40 and the 30 and 60-day payment terms.
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