Electronic commerce enabled aggregation for facilitating international commerce

摘要

A method and apparatus for electronic commerce enabled aggregation (see figure 1) allows vendors (30, 32, 34) the ability to sell products and services to customers (10, 12, 14, 16) outside of their national borders by outsourcing the functions to transnational shipping and customs management for such transactions. Additionally, the present invention allows customers to have the ability to purchase goods from all over the world at reduced costs thereby giving them access to a greater variety of goods and services.