Buying agent · Istanbul Financial Center

Import without an import department.

Kervan helps importers find high-grade, verified trading houses in Hong Kong, Indonesia, China, the UAE, Oman, the EU, the USA and India. From finding the right partner to payment, insurance and shipping, we coordinate the steps you need.

Single services start at $200. No account, no subscription.

K / 001 One deal. Every detail.
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The right trading house. Verified.

Kervan connects importers with high-grade, verified trading houses across eight markets.

No title taken

Goods pass from your supplier straight to you. We never own what you buy.

No supplier fees

We act for one side and are paid by one side. Suppliers pay us nothing.

No funds held

Money moves against a transaction on your mandate — never onto an account with us.

Why this is hard

Five ways an import goes wrong, and none of them is the price of the goods

Every one of these has a service against it. You decide which ones are your problem.

  1. 01

    You found a supplier. You cannot tell whether it is a factory.

    A good website, a long catalogue and a confident sales manager cost less than a single loom. Half the companies quoting you resell someone else's line, and the half that do not may still be unable to hold your volume.

    S4 · Supplier verification — registration, finances, export record, capacity
  2. 02

    The advance leaves and there is nothing holding it.

    Thirty per cent to a company you have never stood inside, in a country whose courts you will never use over that amount. The risk is not fraud so much as an ordinary factory having an ordinary bad quarter.

    S10 · Advance payment security — their bank guarantees the money back
  3. 03

    The cost at your warehouse is not the cost in the quote.

    Duty, KDV, KKDF on deferred payment, surveillance minimums, anti-dumping, freight, demurrage, correspondent bank charges. Any one of them can turn the cheaper factory into the dearer one.

    S1 · Import feasibility & tariff check — before you commit, not after
  4. 04

    Five counterparties, and not one of them answers for the whole.

    Factory, forwarder, insurer, broker, bank. Each is right about its own part while the shipment as a whole is late, and the coordination that nobody is paid for is yours.

    S0 · One mandate, one counterparty, one person answering the phone
  5. 05

    The documents arrive wrong and the goods stop at the border.

    A tick box on a certificate of origin, a description that does not match the packing list, a safety sheet in the wrong language. Days on the quay, and the duty exemption you were counting on gone.

    S11 · Document pre-check — read as customs will read it, before loading

  6. None of this needs an import department.

    It needs somebody on your side of the table who does it for a living. That is the entire proposition.

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How it works

Eight stages. You switch on the ones that are your problem.

The dark stages below are what a buyer who already has a supplier usually takes. The pale ones are still there when you need them, and can be added later in the deal — up to the point where they stop being possible.

This example
Supplier known
5 of eight stages
— of the goods value
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  1. 01 · Before the deal

    Find the supplier

    Three to five factories approached against your written requirements, quoted side by side.

    S3 · from $1,200 — not needed, you have one
  2. 02 · Before the deal

    Check who they are

    Registration, ownership today, finances, export record, capacity, sanctions. One verdict line, not a folder.

    S4 + S5 · $650
  3. 03 · Before the deal

    Know the landed cost

    Classification, duty, surveillance, the levies nobody quotes. The answer sometimes changes the country.

    S1 + S2 · $1,400
  4. 04 · The deal

    Agree and sign

    Terms negotiated, requirements written into the contract, signed in your name under a mandate for this one purchase.

    S0 core + S8
  5. 05 · The deal

    Pay the supplier

    Your money moves against this transaction on the day, in your name. Nothing is held, nothing sits with us.

    Included in S0
  6. 06 · Production

    Watch the line

    Inspection against the approved sample, with photographs, before anything is loaded.

    S12 · $450/day — add before shipment
  7. 07 · Shipment

    Move it and cover it

    Freight booked and consolidated, cargo insured to the delivery point, documents checked before loading.

    S11 + S13 + S14
  8. 08 · Import

    Clear and accept

    Broker instructed in direct representation, you as importer of record, goods checked against the contract on arrival.

    S15 · $450 + broker

Every stage has a last moment it can still be bought — nobody guarantees an advance that has already gone, and no inspector can look at a container at sea. Your deal page shows what is still open and what has closed, with the date and the reason.

Services & prices

Services & prices

Eighteen services. Take one, take all of them, or add more as the deal moves. Each price is fixed when the service is added and does not change afterwards.

Fees are invoiced in Turkish lira, KDV 20 % on top. Goods, freight, premiums, duties and broker charges pass through at cost, shown open-book.

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Before the deal
    Import
      The deal
        Production & shipment
          After delivery
            Sample prices — for discussion, not a published tariffNot sure what you need?
            Build your quote — interactive

            Build your quote

            Tick what you want us to do. You can add the rest later, mid-deal.

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            Whose side we are on

            We act for the buyer. Only the buyer.

            Most intermediaries take something from both ends — a fee from you and a quiet rebate from the mill. That is the moment their interest stops being yours.

            We are paid by the buyer and by nobody else. It is also what keeps us your agent under Turkish law rather than an unlicensed payment business: the exemption we rely on covers a commercial representative authorised to negotiate and conclude a purchase for one side of the trade. Working both ends would end it.

            Goods and title — direct, never through us
            SupplierMill or factory
            Payment
            KervanAgent of the buyer, under a mandate for this deal
            Payment
            BuyerYou
            No fee, no rebate, no listingOur fee — from the buyer

            Title

            Passes from the mill to you. It never touches our balance sheet, so nothing we owe can ever attach to your goods.

            Fee

            One fee, from you, fixed when a service is added. Suppliers are never charged and never paid.

            Funds

            Moved against one transaction under one mandate, with the bank confirmation to show for it. Nothing is held on account.

            Your trading-house partner

            The right connection changes the whole deal.

            Kervan helps you find a high-grade, verified trading house and brings the moving parts of your import together.

            01

            Find the right fit

            Access trading houses in Hong Kong, Indonesia, China, the UAE, Oman, the EU, the USA and India. We help match your sourcing needs with the right partner.

            02

            Know your counterparty

            Verification helps you understand who you are buying from. Agree the scope, commercial terms and responsibilities before moving forward.

            03

            Bring the deal together

            Connect the agreement with payment, insurance and shipping. Choose the support you need as your import progresses.

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            Landed cost calculator

            What it actually costs on your floor

            Five fields, no account, no e-mail. The estimate below is the same arithmetic our people do on the first call — including the two lines almost nobody budgets for.

            An estimate, not a ruling. The duty rate depends on the exact classification, and that is what S1 is for.

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            kg
            Twelve broad groups. We map yours to a heading and tell you which one.
            This one field moves the total by $2,304.

            Nothing you type here is stored unless you ask us to turn it into a request.

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            Corridors and base

            Four directions we know well enough to argue about

            Not a map of everywhere. These are the routes where we know the paperwork, the ports, the usual tricks and roughly what a factory should be charging.

            Registered
            Istanbul Financial Center
            DMR İTHALAT İHRACAT A.Ş.
            Ümraniye, Istanbul
            1. 01

              China

              The deepest supplier base and the most ways to buy the wrong thing. Trading companies presenting as factories, minimum orders that appear after the quote, and surveillance values that turn a cheap invoice into an expensive declaration.

              Ningbo · Shanghai · Qingdao · Xiamen
              28–42 days to İzmir or Mersin
            2. 02

              European Union

              Dearer per unit and frequently cheaper on the floor: the customs union means no duty with an A.TR, two weeks by road, and small reorders that do not need a container. The document that makes it work is the one most often filled in wrongly.

              Road through Bulgaria · Trieste and Koper by sea
              10–18 days, no duty with correct papers
            3. 03

              Russia

              Raw materials, polymers, metals and timber, where the question is rarely the factory and almost always the payment route and the screening. We run both before anyone agrees a price, and we say no when the answer is no.

              Novorossiysk · rail and road
              Screened at every payment, without exception
            4. 04

              Africa

              Agricultural goods and minerals inbound, Turkish manufactured goods outbound. Long documentation chains, real counterparty risk, and pre-shipment inspection that is not optional however good the relationship looks.

              Alexandria · Lagos · Mombasa
              Inspection before payment as standard

            More than thirty years

            The people here have been doing this since before the container terminals were privatised. That is not a slogan — it is why a quote from Ningbo reads differently to us than it does to you.

            Turkish company, Turkish rules

            A Turkish joint-stock company acting for Turkish buyers under Turkish law, with the tax, the accounting and the audit that go with it. Your contract is enforceable in the courts you already use.

            Where we do not go

            Anywhere our screening cannot clear a counterparty or a payment route. There is no version of this business where a deal is worth the licence it costs us.

            Governance

            Three questions your lawyer will ask, answered before they do

            1. 01

              What exactly are we authorising you to do?

              One purchase, one power of attorney, signed at a notary by a person named in your signature circular. It names the supplier, the goods, an amount we cannot exceed and a date after which it is dead.

              • We may negotiate, sign and pay for that purchase
              • We may not take title, sign anything else, or pay a cent over the amount
              • It ends with the deal. The next purchase needs a new one

              Our system checks the mandate against every payment before it goes. There is no override for any employee, at any level.

            2. 02

              Where does our money sit while you have it?

              It does not sit. There is no wallet, no balance and no float. Money arrives against one named payment, leaves to your supplier the same day, and anything left over goes back to you before the day closes.

              • Only from the company that gave the mandate — not a parent, not a sister
              • A transfer we cannot match is returned the same day, to the account it came from
              • We do not convert currency and we do not net one deal against another

              Our fee is invoiced separately in lira with KDV. It is never deducted from what goes to your supplier.

            3. 03

              What happens to our data and our drawings?

              Handled under KVKK with a written notice and a separate, refusable consent for anything that crosses a border. Refusing the cross-border consent limits which corridors we can work for you, and we will say which.

              • Your drawings and specifications go to a factory only under an NDA you have seen
              • Contracts and mandates kept ten years, screening logs eight, as the law requires
              • Drawings deleted on request once the deal is closed

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            Entity
            DMR İTHALAT İHRACAT A.Ş.Registered in Istanbul
            Acting as
            Commercial representativefor the buyer, on a written mandate
            Not acting as
            A bank, a payment institution,a customs broker or an insurer

            Customs clearance is done by a licensed broker in direct representation, and insurance is placed through a licensed broker. We coordinate both; we are neither.

            Start

            Two ways in. The short one costs $200 and commits you to nothing.

            A person reads both of these, not a form robot. You will hear back within four business hours.

            Try us with one thingFour fields

            Order a single service

            Have a supplier checked, a tariff confirmed, a lot inspected. No account, no power of attorney, none of your money through us — a report and one invoice.

            We confirm the price and the date before any work starts. Report in 3–5 working days.

            The whole purchaseSix fields

            Start a deal

            Tell us what you are buying in your own words. We come back with what we understood, a price for the steps you need, and a shortlist — or a straight answer that this one is not worth doing.

            Nothing is committed by sending this. The mandate comes much later, and only if you want it.

            Rather talk first? +90 216 000 00 00 · hello@dmrglobal.com.tr · Istanbul Financial Center, Ümraniye

            We answer in Turkish, English and Russian.