Import from anywhere — without the operational tax.
Your entire import, run as a project: supplier, verification, freight, customs, compliance, last-mile — one accountable owner. You pay every supplier and partner directly and see every invoice.
True landed cost, a margin reality-check against current market prices, and a clear go / no-go — free, in 5 business days.
We're Fred and Nafisa. We imported our own container — bagasse clamshells to birchwood cutlery — and have so many others to avoid expensive mistakes.
Our landed-cost math is always right to the cent. This is step one of how we work: before anything ships, we prove your numbers work end to end.
Read the full storyOne offer: the Managed Import
For e-commerce sellers and brands importing. We specialize in import project management; the free audit is open to anyone.
Free Import Audit
Your true landed cost per unit, a margin reality-check against current market prices, and an honest go / no-go. If the numbers don't work, we tell you — for free. If they do, the audit ends with a fixed quote to run the whole thing.
The Managed Import
We run your import as a project: start with supplier, verify the goods, consolidate and load, shop the freight and insurance, clear customs on both ends, and land it at your door. Weekly updates. One person accountable.
Why VerteVida
Not a sourcing agent. Not a freight forwarder.
Agents take a cut of your purchase and kickbacks you never see. Forwarders move boxes but manage nothing. We're your import's project managers: we own the plan, the budget, the timeline, and every handoff in between.
A fee that can't grow with your costs
Our fee is fixed before we start and we take no commission on your PO — so we're the only people in your import with zero incentive to let costs grow.
One accountable owner
Supplier, consolidator, freight, broker, drayage, last-mile — imports fail at the handoffs, so we own all of them. One person to call when something needs to move.
Everything you won't have to do
The Managed Import covers the whole operational tax. Specifically:
- Landed-cost & viability modeling
- Supplier discovery and vetting (or onboarding your existing supplier)
- Negotiation & sample coordination
- Product verification before loading
- Consolidation & container loading
- Freight shopping across carriers
- Insurance shopping
- Export clearance in India
- Import clearance & CARM in Canada
- Drayage from terminal
- Last-mile delivery
- Unloading labour
You make the decisions and see every partners payments directly. We run everything in between.
Why now — Importing directly makes profit math better
Five signals from the last 12 months that mean sellers importing should be acting now, not next year.
CEPA Round 2 concluded — the second negotiation round wrapped May 8 in New Delhi; Round 3 is set for July in Ottawa, with both sides targeting conclusion by end of 2026. Packaging and jewelry duties could drop 3–10 points — lock your lane in before the rate cuts hit.
India→Canada jewelry imports in 2025. India is a top-3 supplier of jewelry to Canada and the corridor is growing. Plastics packaging from India grew +43% YoY.
Of Canadian SMBs in trade are registered with CARM. The other 75% have shipments at risk every time goods land. We get you compliant before your first PO ships.
Cumulative US tariff on Chinese goods. Canada-China retaliation cycle ongoing. Manufacturing costs commonly reported 30–50% lower than China across many categories.
Anti-dumping or countervailing duty measures on India-origin packaging or jewelry. The lane is regulatory-clean for our specialties. (India IS subject on steel; we don't do steel.)
How We Work
Audit
Free.
Landed cost, margin check, honest go / no-go.
Quote
Fixed project fee from the audit.
No percentages, no surprises.
Commit
A non-refundable retainer secures your project
before any money moves to suppliers.
Run
Sourcing through landing, weekly updates.
One owner across every handoff.
Land
Goods at your door, paperwork done.
Final milestone due.
Send us your specs.
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