Via the partnership, Latin American customers can purchase US products on the Traetelo online platform. Moreover, customers will be offered next-day services and exports and Import Express for return shipments.
There will also be real-time tracking on shipments with DHL Proview and around the clock real-time invoice management.
Brazil has been the region’s most common ecommerce market but now sales have grown by 200% year-on-year in top markets of Chile, Venezuela and Peru.
Nearly 80% of Traetelo sales are US goods and it has already sold about USD 34 million (GBP 20 million) worth of merchandise online since 2010.
Federico Torres, Traetelo`s CEO, informs that the company’s services are mainly aimed at lower-income consumers in the Spanish-speaking Latin America who don’t have credit cards and first time internet buyers interested in US products.
In Latin America, 20% of the population have credit cards and 60% of customers prefer to use cash.
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