Sourcing & retail guide

What Ships to Your Country: Japanese Wholesale for the US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

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Quick answer: How much of a Japanese wholesale catalog you can order depends on where the goods are going. For US delivery, stationery is the group that ships: over 50,000 products, measured at 56,607 on 12 October 2026. For the United Kingdom, EU member states, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, adult apparel and kitchen and dining ship alongside stationery, and the same measurement came to 98,295. Your destination comes from the country you give at sign-up, and you switch it at the top of the screen. The UK, EU countries and South Korea want the importer's tax number before an order goes through; Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States do not.

If you receive goods in the United States: stationery is what ships to you today. The wider range described below is for other destinations. Start with the US sourcing guide.

Key takeaways

What ships where, measured on one day

Range is the first thing to settle, because it is not one catalog for everyone: where you receive the goods decides what you are shown.

Where you receive the goods What ships Products in the catalog (measured 12 October 2026)
United States Stationery 56,607
United Kingdom Stationery, adult apparel, kitchen & dining 98,295
EU member states Stationery, adult apparel, kitchen & dining 98,295 (measured for Germany)
Canada Stationery, adult apparel, kitchen & dining 98,295
Australia Stationery, adult apparel, kitchen & dining 98,295
New Zealand Stationery, adult apparel, kitchen & dining 98,295
South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the UAE, Mexico, China, Vietnam, Indonesia Stationery, adult apparel, kitchen & dining 98,295 each (measured separately for all nine)
Every other destination Stationery 56,607 (measured for Brazil, matching the US)
A receiving point inside Japan Full catalog About 200,000

Two lines in that table matter more than the rest.

For US delivery, stationery is the only group open today. Over 50,000 products is a deep stationery range and no kitchen range at all. If you are a US buyer, read every count in this guide from the US column and treat the wider one as what your UK or Canadian counterpart sees.

For the rest of the list, the range is the same. Not approximately: the measurement returned 98,295 for the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Germany on the same day. Shops in Manchester, Toronto, Auckland and Hamburg choose from one range, and what differs between them is the paperwork at the border.

Three factors decide whether a product can be exported to a given place: the destination, the supplier the product comes from, and the product's export class. The filter is applied to the catalog rather than at checkout, so you are not shown products that cannot be sent there.

The same searches, run for each destination

The counts below come from the production catalog on 12 October 2026, filtered first for US delivery and then for the other destinations. The UK, Germany, Canada, Australia and New Zealand returned identical numbers on every term, so one column covers them.

Search term Meaning United States UK, EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand
文房具 stationery 52,027 52,030
ノート notebooks 4,172 4,173
マスキングテープ masking tape 2,344 2,344
ボールペン ballpoint pens 1,648 1,648
万年筆 fountain pens 761 761
タオル towels 203 243
皿 plates 114 6,180
エプロン aprons 54 2,930
マグカップ mugs 32 1,074
ワンピース dresses 10 2,618
ニット knitwear 6 3,039
シャツ shirts 1 6,037

Read the US column as stationery. Stationery is the only group open for US delivery, and the small counts on the plates, aprons, mugs, dresses, knitwear and shirts rows are simply what those searches returned that day. They are not a kitchen range and not an apparel range, and no US shop should plan a tableware wall or a clothing rack around them. Towels at 203 are the same kind of result: sampled on 12 October 2026, 84 of the first 100 hits for US delivery sat in the stationery category rather than in a towel range. The top of the table is where a US buyer should look instead: notebooks at 4,172, masking tape at 2,344 and ballpoint pens at 1,648 are lines with real depth, which the stationery wholesale guide goes into properly.

For the wider list, the gap at the bottom of the table is the point. Plates go from 114 to 6,180 and shirts from 1 to 6,037 the moment the destination changes. Subcategory depth sits in two other guides: kitchenware for the UK and EU and adult apparel for the UK, EU and Australia.

The search terms are Japanese, and English works too

The terms in the table are Japanese because that is what they were measured with. You can also search in English. The English word you type is mapped to Japanese search terms behind the scenes, so "towel" finds Japanese towels. Two things follow. Only the search term is translated: product names and descriptions come back in Japanese. And the mapping does not hit every word, so for anything you cannot find, try the Japanese term from the table.

Who has to give a tax number, and when

The order of operations is worth stating first. A tax or customs number is asked for at the order step, not at sign-up. You can register, be reviewed and browse your destination's catalog without one. The number goes on the order.

Measured on 12 October 2026 against the production cross-border eligibility check, for twelve of the roughly forty destinations that have a tax-number rule configured. It is not a complete list of where orosy ships.

Destination Number required to order? Number types accepted
United Kingdom Required GB EORI, GB VAT
EU member states (measured for Germany and France) Required EU EORI, EU VAT
South Korea Required Business registration number, personal customs clearance code
Canada Optional Business Number
Australia Optional ABN
United States Optional EIN
Taiwan Optional Unified Business Number
New Zealand Optional No number type to supply

The three we checked beyond the table were consistent with it: Mexico accepts a number without requiring one, and Hong Kong and Singapore have no number type.

For a UK, EU or South Korean buyer the number is a prerequisite: if it is missing, the order stops, so sort it out before the first cart rather than during it. For a Canadian, Australian, New Zealand or US buyer there is one fewer step before a first order, though whether your business should hold such a number for its own reasons is a separate question.

Get the rules themselves from the authorities. The UK sets out who needs an EORI number and publishes the UK Trade Tariff; the European Commission explains the EU EORI number. For the rest: the Canada Border Services Agency on importing commercial goods, the Australian Border Force on how to import, the New Zealand Customs Service on starting to import, US Customs and Border Protection on e-commerce imports, and the Korea Customs Service, whose guidance is published in English.

What does not change with the destination is who the importer is. Sales are on DAP terms, meaning orosy arranges delivery to your address while import duty and clearance stay with you, and the buyer is the importer of record. Customs clearance in your country, import duties, and taxes at import are your responsibility. They are not part of the cost billed by orosy. Rates and thresholds belong to the government pages above and to the commodity code of each product line.

What never ships, wherever the goods are going

Three groups are held back at every destination:

Once your destination is set, you are not shown any of this. That is a separate question from what your own border will admit: Australian biosecurity, for instance, assesses wood and dried plant material on arrival, which our field notes on shipping to Australian shops go through.

Your destination, your account, and a first order

The eight things the sign-up form asks for

The form takes eight things: your email address, a password, your company name, your business website URL, a description of what your business does, the country your business is in, your main delivery destination country, and agreement to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. After that you confirm your email with a code, then log in.

Two of the eight matter here. The business website URL is required because the review is based on it; with no site of your own, a shop page on a platform or a business account on social media is accepted. And your main delivery destination country becomes the default destination for your catalog, so a New Zealand shop that enters New Zealand finds it already selected, and switches it at the top of the screen to look at another destination.

What it costs and how the review works

Registration is free and takes no card. A card is needed before you place a real order. There is no set-up fee and no monthly fee.

Most accounts are approved within about 10 minutes if the sign-up email domain matches the business website or the email is listed on it. Otherwise the review is normally completed within 12 hours. While it is pending you can search and place test orders in test mode; real products and wholesale prices open once you are approved.

Shipping, payment and where goods are delivered

orosy arranges international shipping to your country. You do not need a forwarder or a receiving point in Japan. Before you order, the cart shows a reference figure for international shipping, for your information only. The actual shipping cost is calculated later and billed to you, and it can differ from that figure. Delivery to a receiving point inside Japan also remains available.

A delivery group is orosy's unit for products that ship together from the same source. Shipping fees, any free-shipping threshold and the minimum order amount are set per delivery group, so plates from one supplier and notebooks from another form two groups. Payment is by credit card only and is charged when stock is confirmed, so you are not billed for items that turn out to be unavailable. Delivery goes to a business address.

Three ways to order the same catalog

You can order on the portal screen. You can also connect from an MCP-capable AI client that lets you set an Authorization header, Claude Code for example: the agent searches, compares and builds the cart, then stops and shows you the order total, and you place the order. Larger operations wire the API into their own systems. Setup for the AI route is in the "Use with AI" guide after you log in, and the three ways to order compares them side by side.

As of 28 September 2026, over 476 businesses had signed up, over 307 had passed review, and over 48 had issued an API key. Production orders have come in through all three ways of ordering: the portal screen, an AI assistant over MCP, and a direct API integration (as of 29 September 2026).

Find the guide for your country

Where you receive the goods What ships Where to read next
United States Stationery Sourcing Japanese products wholesale in the US, then shipping to US shops
United Kingdom Stationery, adult apparel, kitchen & dining Importing Japanese products into the UK for resale
EU member states Stationery, adult apparel, kitchen & dining Japanese kitchenware wholesale for the UK and EU
Canada Stationery, adult apparel, kitchen & dining Buying Japanese wholesale from Canada
Australia Stationery, adult apparel, kitchen & dining Japanese homewares wholesale for Australia and New Zealand, then shipping to Australian shops
New Zealand Stationery, adult apparel, kitchen & dining Japanese homewares wholesale for Australia and New Zealand

What to do next

  1. Set your destination first, then look at range. Everything you see depends on it.
  2. Check whether your destination needs a tax number to order, and get it before you build a cart rather than after.
  3. Search in English, and keep a few Japanese terms to hand for the words the mapping misses.

For damaged, mis-shipped or short-quantity items, contact orosy within 5 days of receipt for a replacement or refund, per the Terms of Use (Article 10).

FAQ

Why does the same catalog show a different number of products for each country?

Because the catalog is filtered by where the goods are going before you ever see it. What can be exported is decided per destination from three factors: the destination itself, the supplier a product comes from, and the product's export class. So one search run for two countries returns two counts. For US delivery, stationery is the group that is open, and the whole catalog for the US came to 56,607 products on 12 October 2026. For the UK, EU member states, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, adult apparel and kitchen and dining are open as well, and the same measurement came to 98,295. Nothing about the product changes. The slice of the catalog you are allowed to order does.

Which countries can order Japanese adult apparel and kitchen products wholesale?

As of 12 October 2026: the United Kingdom, EU member states, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, Mexico, China, Vietnam and Indonesia. For those destinations, adult apparel and kitchen and dining products ship alongside stationery. The United States is not on that list. For US delivery, stationery is the only group that ships today, so a US shop should read the US column of any count table and not the wider one. Children's and baby clothing ship to no destination, which is why apparel here always means adult apparel.

Do I need a tax or customs number before I can order?

It depends on the destination, and the number is asked for at the order step rather than at sign-up. Of the twelve destinations we checked, three require one before an order will go through: the United Kingdom (EORI or VAT number), EU member states (EU EORI or VAT number, measured for Germany and France) and South Korea (business registration number or personal customs clearance code). Canada, Australia, the United States, Taiwan and Mexico accept a number without requiring one. New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore have no number type to supply. Where a required number is missing, the order stops instead of going through.

Can I change my delivery destination country after I sign up?

Yes. The sign-up form asks for your main delivery destination country, and that country is already selected when you log in, so a shop in Toronto sees the Canadian catalog without doing anything. You switch it at the top of the screen whenever you want to look at another destination, and the catalog, the counts and the tax number requirement change with it. The country your business is in is a separate field on the same form.

What is excluded from international shipping entirely?

Three groups, at every destination. Liquids and sprays, such as detergents, alcohol and oils. Children's and baby clothing, which is why apparel in this catalog means adult apparel. And products whose classification is not yet settled. Once your delivery destination is set, those products are not shown to you, so the exclusion happens before you build a cart rather than at checkout.

orosy Editorial Team

This article was produced with AI. Product facts and figures are checked against primary sources. orosy is responsible for the content.

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