Tea off the Ilam ridges. Bowls beaten by hand in Patan. Pashmina from a Kathmandu loom, churpi dried in Kavre, cardamom out of Taplejung. We buy it at the source, pack it so it survives the journey, and clear it through the paperwork so it actually arrives.
Prices are in US dollars, ex-Kathmandu. Import duty in your own country is not included.
Twelve export lines, sourced at the district they come from.
Each one comes from the district that is actually good at it — tea from Ilam, bowls from Patan, churpi from Kavre, cardamom from Taplejung. Nothing here is bought off a wholesale floor in Kathmandu and relabelled.
Reorder rate is the only honest bestseller list. These are the lines that come back on a second purchase order.
The same goods, the same warehouse, two completely different transactions. Pick the one that matches what you are doing.
Add to cart, pay, and it ships from Kathmandu within two working days. Tracked worldwide, free over $150.00, thirty days to send it back.
MOQ, packing and lead time sit on every product page. Send one enquiry covering the whole basket and we come back with unit prices, freight options and the certificate list for your destination.
Tea, chews, incense, soap and paper goods can carry your own artwork and barcode. You supply the design, we handle print and application. Two to three weeks on top of the normal lead time.
A first-flush lot that will not repeat, a jambati bowl there is only one of, and the cardamom that has just come off the dryers.
An export house earns its margin by removing risk from the buyer, not by adding a layer to the price. These are the lines we hold.
A 70/30 pashmina–silk stole is described as 70/30. A spun bowl is never described as hand-beaten. A blended tea is never sold as a garden-level lot. Where we cannot verify a supplier's claim ourselves, we do not list the product at all.
Not the value, not the description, not the country of origin — not as a favour and not on request. Under-declaring puts the buyer at risk far more than it puts us at risk, and it would end our export registration.
Handwork takes weeks. Harvests happen when they happen. Everything from Nepal transits India and the border does what the border does. You get the real number, and a call as soon as it moves.
Agni Exim was registered in Kathmandu in 2015 to do one thing: take goods that Nepal is genuinely good at making and put them in front of buyers who would otherwise never find them.
That means a lot of driving. Tea is bought on the ridge in Ilam, churpi in the hill dairies of Kavre, bowls at the workshop door in Patan, cardamom off the dryers in Taplejung. The part buyers actually pay us for is everything after that — the grading, the packing that survives six weeks at sea, the phytosanitary certificate, the certificate of origin, and someone who picks up the phone when a container is late.
We are not the largest exporter in Kathmandu and we are not trying to be. We are the one that will tell you the lead time is eight weeks when it is eight weeks.
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