What's a ball park figure to import a pallet from china

[Karimbo]

I've sourced a factory that supplies security bolts & fasteners, originally got this to get some torx keys which were quite expensive to buy here. But bought 100 of them for £12 including shipping.

Offloaded surplus (only needed 20) on ebay and they went fairly reasonably.

So I'm thinking of doing this more often - seems a fairly easy model. Only issue is the shipping costs does not seem to decrease proportionally with larger orders. The shipping cost is about the same as the cost of the goods. Which is understandable because these are heavy metal products and weigh a lot.

So just trying to get any idea of how much a pallet from china costs for this type of product.

I'm guessing a pallet cannot be stacked in a racking style system in a container so whether you just use 60cm of vertical space or the full 2M vertical space, it would be the same cost by space.

 

[vvaannmmaann]

This any good? No idea how old it is.
http://andrewminalto.com/how-to-import-products-from-china/

 

[Karimbo]

This any good? No idea how old it is.
http://andrewminalto.com/how-to-import-products-from-china/

I came across that when I googled. It just touches the surface though. I'd like to know from someone who imports a pallet or two what is the final import figure after everything has been paid off.

 

[doherty_1980]

LCL (Less than Container Load) goes on volume and weight. A half height pallet will always have something stacked on top so they need to be adequately packed.

Ballpark figure, I pay about £200 to get a pallet to Felixstowe which includes the UK port handling fees and paperwork fees. After that you've the import VAT / Duty for the product then the cost to deliver to your address if you can't collect.

Your supplier is responsible for getting it onto the ship in China providing you've asked for an FOB price.

 

[Karimbo]

LCL (Less than Container Load) goes on volume and weight. A half height pallet will always have something stacked on top so they need to be adequately packed.

Ballpark figure, I pay about £200 to get a pallet to Felixstowe which includes the UK port handling fees and paperwork fees. After that you've the import VAT / Duty for the product then the cost to deliver to your address if you can't collect.

Your supplier is responsible for getting it onto the ship in China providing you've asked for an FOB price.

£200 for a pallet?that is very reasonable. I was looking at a 60cm by 60cm by 60cm box for that price via UPS

 

[doherty_1980]

Yes sea freight is very reasonable, just takes about 6-8 weeks though. When it comes to express courier it's best to get the Chinese factories to arrange it, they get rates considerably cheaper than we can get.

 

[Karimbo]

im going to have to do a lot of projections with this. The items I'm getting sell year round and generally shift OKish. They're small items as well. The more expensive airmail shipping count be offset by the fact that the items can be sold much quicker and I can sell out and reinvest in stock a couple times over while the container ship is plodding along somewhere in the Indian ocean.