Your representative in Colombia,
without a local entity
We represent foreign companies in Colombian territory and handle the clearance of your goods. You sell or distribute in Colombia without incorporating a company, without a tax ID and without a local team.
Who this is for
For the foreign company that needs to bring goods into Colombia — to sell, to supply a distributor, to equip a project — and discovers that importing requires an importer domiciled in the country. Incorporating a Colombian company for that is expensive, slow, and leaves behind a live structure that has to be maintained and filed every year.
The alternative is for Excolbi to be the importer. The goods enter under our name, we answer to the Colombian customs authority, and you receive the product already cleared.
What clearance covers
Clearing is not just paying duty. It is classifying the goods correctly, assembling the documentation each tariff heading requires, obtaining prior permits where the product needs them, settling the customs charges and answering for all of it before the authority.
A wrong tariff classification is the most common reason a container sits still: it changes the duty, it changes the documents required, and if the error surfaces at the port, the cargo waits. That is the part of the job worth not improvising.
How the operation starts
Before anything moves we need three things: exactly what the goods are, where they ship from, and what will happen to them in Colombia. That determines the tariff heading, the applicable permits and the real cost of entry.
That upfront analysis is part of the advisory stage and is free. It is far better to discover in that conversation that a product needs a health registration than to discover it with the cargo already at the port.
What buyers ask us most
Do I need to incorporate a company in Colombia?
No. That is exactly the point of the service: the goods enter under the name of Excolbi, already a Colombian company with the necessary status and registrations.
Who is accountable to the customs authority?
Excolbi, as importer. That is why the upfront analysis of the goods is demanding: we take on the responsibility that the classification and documentation are correct.
Can you store the goods after clearance?
Goods can stay at our Medellín warehouse while delivery or dispatch to your customer in Colombia is arranged. The specific terms are agreed in the quote.
What if my product needs a health registration or prior permit?
We tell you before the cargo leaves origin, and we tell you which body issues it and what it requires. That is information worth having before you ship, not after.
Already shipping with us
Trabajo con Excolbi hace más de 8 años. Para mi empresa ha sido un aliado estratégico en el tema de envíos internacionales y asesorías para exportación. Cuenta con un equipo de asesores profesionales, diligentes y expertos en el tema, son muy rápidos y confiables. Los recomiendo 100%.
Excolbi es una empresa confiable, dedicada a sus clientes, y siempre está para ayudarlos en todos los procesos. Llevo varios años y siempre agradecida.
Testimonials are kept in the original Spanish, as our clients wrote them.
Free advice
The advisory stage is free
Before we quote anything, tell us what you want to buy or move. We will tell you which documents the operation requires, how it is best structured and which costs you can avoid at destination. If working with us turns out not to suit you, you keep the information anyway.