Europe-Based Ecommerce business. Want to serve US clients. Help.

[phisigma]

Hey there!

I was wondering if anyone here is doing ecommerce from Europe and has successfully served customers in the US?

Here's a bit about my project:
- I make decorative objects myself in France
- They're about 5 x 5 x 20 cm in size
- I can produce up to 10 a day at home, but can easily scale up to 100 a day (I have developed a quite unique method for this)
- I sell them on my own Shopify website for $100-$250 depending on the variant

I have a couple of questions:

1. How do you handle shipping to the US as a small European ecommerce business? I checked out FedEx but it seems pretty expensive. Any tips?

2. What about customs fees? Do you include them in your pricing or have the customer pay separately?

Thanks so much for your help!
Let me know if anything is unclear (English isn't my first language).

 

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