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Canada, China, Australia, and South Korea, according
to ShipStation; other markets’ share of cross-border is
too inconsequential to count, the firm said. International
e-commerce, by contrast, can be conducted anywhere trade
is allowed, ShipStation said.
Cross-border e-commerce is not yet a mature market,
which might explain why it’s expanding
at about 25 percent a year, according
to estimates from German air-express
giant DHL Express. In conjunction with
that expansion, global parcel volume
leapt to 65 billion pieces in 2016 from
44 billion in 2014, according to data
from information technology specialist
Pitney Bowes and research firm eMar-keter. Global volumes will rise between
17 and 18 percent a year from 2017 to 2021, according to
Pitney Bowes data.
Online ordering between countries is not a passing fad,
from multinational freight forwarder Seko Logistics, based
in Itasca, Ill. About 78 percent of all global B2C transac-
tions never touch North America, said Hermes Nextec, an
e-commerce unit of the German firm Hermes Group.
Given the long distances and customer demands for
speedy deliveries, it would seem to make sense for pro-case, said a recent DHL survey of 1,800
