Buy from El Corte Inglés
Ship to the USA

El Corte Inglés isn't a single brand — it's Spain's (and Europe's) largest department store, the home market for Spanish-origin labels that barely exist in US retail. That's the whole reason to shop elcorteingles.es and ship to the USA: you reach Loewe, Bimba y Lola, Camper, Tous and El Corte Inglés's own lines (Emidio Tucci menswear, plus women's labels Easy Wear, Green Coast, Gloria Ortiz, Elogy) at Spanish home-market prices, alongside a full luxury perfumery (Carolina Herrera, Paco Rabanne, YSL, Armani, Guerlain, Clarins) and niche/clean lines like Freshly Cosmetics, Cocunat and Paula's Choice. Euro prices already include Spain's 21% IVA, and that VAT stays in the price when you forward to a US address — forwarding does not reclaim it.

One thing to get right before you fall in love with the gourmet hall: El Corte Inglés does NOT ship most categories outside the EU. Per its own delivery rules, only fashion, accessories, watches, books, music, film and video games ship worldwide. Electronics, home, sport, suitcases, wine and baby ship to EU destinations only, and the famous Club del Gourmet — Cinco Jotas (5J) jamón ibérico, Manchego, Spanish wine — is sold for domestic Spanish delivery and isn't internationally shipped (and US food-import rules largely bar cured pork anyway). That gap is exactly what a Spanish forwarding address closes: you check out like a local to an EU address, and we consolidate and reship the forwardable categories to your door in the US.

The pieces worth forwarding are the Spanish-design fashion and beauty you can't easily get stateside — and a forwarder also lets you combine several orders into one parcel. Returns on an international order are the shopper's burden, so size carefully and run a shipping quote before you check out. Claim your free Spanish address at registration to start.

El Corte Inglés uses Spanish/EU sizing throughout, so US shoppers need to convert — match the EU column below, not the US number on your usual brand's tag. The rule of thumb for women's apparel is US ≈ EU − 32 (EU 38 ≈ US 6, EU 40 ≈ US 8, EU 42 ≈ US 10). Men's jackets and suits run US ≈ EU − 10 (EU 50 ≈ US 40, EU 54 ≈ US 44). Footwear is EU-numbered: women's US ≈ EU − 31 and men's US ≈ EU − 33 (men's EU 42 ≈ US 9). Spanish and Italian-cut clothing — including the El Corte Inglés own labels and brands like Bimba y Lola — tends to run slim, so if you're between sizes, size up. Because an international return goes all the way back to Spain at your own cost, getting the size right the first time is the real money-saver; check each product's own size chart and measure in cm before you order.

For beauty there's no clothing table to worry about — just two things. First, sizes are metric: fragrance comes in ml (a 50 ml EDP, a 30 ml serum) rather than US fl oz, and concentration labels (EDT / EDP / Parfum) read the same as in the US. Second, EU SPF uses the ISO/Colipa scale (SPF 30 / 50 / 50+), which can read differently from US FDA SPF numbers, and an EU-formulated product or shade range may differ from the US-market version of the same brand. Our team can sanity-check a fit or a product spec before you order to the free Spanish forwarding address you claim at registration.

When you buy from El Corte Inglés and ship to the USA, your forwarding cost tracks weight, so knowing how the forwardable categories add up is the fastest way to predict your bill. The categories that can leave the EU are light: a garment is about 0.3–1 kg, a boxed leather handbag (think Bimba y Lola or Tous) roughly 0.6–1.2 kg, a boxed fragrance 0.3–0.5 kg, skincare 0.1–0.4 kg, and boxed shoes about 0.8–1.5 kg. A typical forwardable fashion-and-beauty order lands around 0.5–2 kg — an easy single parcel. (The heavy outliers, like a whole 6.5–8 kg bone-in jamón, simply can't ship to the US anyway, so they never enter your shipping math.)

Couriers bill the higher of actual versus volumetric (dimensional) weight. For El Corte Inglés that mostly bites on bulky outerwear and boxed shoes, which read heavier by volume; flat, dense pieces and a leather bag bill close to their real weight, and skincare/fragrance are dense and cheap to ship. The single biggest saving is consolidation: place several El Corte Inglés orders, let them all arrive at your free Spanish address, and we combine them into one box so you pay a single international leg instead of one charge per parcel. Run your exact items through the on-page calculator for a live cost band, then register a free Spanish address to start consolidating.

Spanish and EU consumer law gives you a 14-day right of withdrawal on most goods, with refunds processed within 14 days to your original payment method. That sounds generous, but for an international order it's much harder in practice. For orders shipped abroad you have to contact El Corte Inglés Customer Service (tel. 900 363 900) and ship the item back to Spain yourself — and the return shipping plus any customs fees or local taxes are your responsibility. Return shipping from the US back to Spain is slow and expensive, and often erodes most of the value of the return. With a forwarder, the US address is the 'delivery' point, so a cross-border return becomes entirely your burden.

Two more things to plan around. First, perishable and gourmet goods (jamón, food, hampers) are explicitly excluded from the right to cancel and are non-returnable — though those can't ship to the US anyway. Second, the item must be unused and in original condition within the 14-day window. The practical takeaway is the same as for any forwarded EU order: treat each purchase as close to final, lean on the EU-to-US size guide, size up if you're between sizes on slim Spanish cuts, and confirm the fit before you order rather than relying on a return.