What is the most straight-forward way to receive imported products from China or Taiwan?

I am trying to import products from Taiwan or China and I'm getting a little in over may head. I am in Colorado and would like to receive the products here. I already have a manufacturer in Taiwan that I feel comfortable with but I have not experienced importing from overseas before. What is the process getting the products to my door? Do I need to hire a third party? What should I NOT overlook? I want to avoid any unseen complications and pitfalls. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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1. I am a rotor exporter and a debt collector in China. And I have some customers in the USA. As per your question, you may have these safe ways to import products from China Directly: 1. Come to some fair to meet with the exporters. You may place the order there. 2. Hire a US agent to help you with the import things. 3. There are some good exporters in China with good reputation. And you may have business with them. 4. Make some Chinese friends, and they may help you with kinds of troubles.
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4. It depends on the quantity of goods you want to import and if you are company or individual importer, if you are a company and want to import in large amount, you need to through your custom, and pay for import tax. if you are a company or individual want import in small amount, you can import through international express, it do not need pay for tax but express fee. if you are a individual but want to import in large amount, I think the only way is third party, unless you have chanel that can avoid custom, but that is illegal. I am a local chinese buy agent, i can do purchase for foreigners with chinese items to help their small business or daily life use,things could be from taobao.com and other china online shopping sites or china wholesale market or directly from factories.www.taobao.com is the biggest C2C online shopping site in aisa,it is just like another ebay,you can find cheap brand cloths,shoes,bags there,some are the order rest from china OEM factory,and some are 1:1 highly alike replica. If you are interest in this area,can add my msn messager:jinping.ni@hotmail.com or raymondpy35@hotmail.com for further chatting. Hope it helps!