DDP air freight from China to the USA

Delivered Duty Paid means the price covers everything up to and including delivery at the destination address, with the import duty and taxes already paid. In practice that is consolidation in our own warehouse in China, export formalities, the air freight, US customs clearance with our US partner as importer of record, the duty, handling and labelling at our own US warehouse, and the last mile. There is no separate customs bill and no duty invoice afterwards. What you do on arrival is receive the goods.

8 to 10 calendar days door to door as a standard transit time, measured from the cargo being ready at our warehouse in China to delivery at the final address. The variable is rarely the flight. It is how quickly the documentation and the classification are right, which is why we ask about those first.

A courier prices every parcel separately and rounds each one up to the next weight band, so on every parcel you pay the gap between the real weight and the rounded weight. We consolidate your orders into bulk cartons and the shipment is charged on gross weight as one movement. No rounding on each piece, no minimum per piece.

No, and it is the reason consolidation exists. Your suppliers deliver into our warehouse in China and the cargo waits there until the last one arrives, then it ships as one movement charged on gross weight. That wait is part of the consolidation service rather than something billed on top of it. If you would rather we collected from your suppliers instead of them delivering to us, we can do that too.

Not you. Our partner in the United States holds the import licence and acts as importer of record on this lane, which is what makes a single duty paid price possible in the first place. You do not need a US company, a customs bond or import authority of your own, and you are not the one filing the entry. What we confirm first is the commodity, because admissibility depends on the goods rather than on the arrangement: a new product gets checked with our US broker before it ships.

Our agreement with the operator on this lane is a stable one, so the price is not re-quoted shipment by shipment against a spot market. What the duty comes to still depends on the classification and the declared value of your specific goods, and we confirm both with you before the cargo moves rather than at the airport. If US tariff treatment of your goods changes, you hear it from us before you commit, not on an invoice afterwards.

Every movement sits on Velonex Control Tower, our own platform, from the goods arriving at our warehouse in China through clearance to the final delivery, in both directions. You see the same file we see rather than waiting for somebody to forward you a status by email, and you keep one point of contact for anything the screen does not answer.

Yes. The same integrated service runs both ways, with the same single point of contact. The export side is a smaller flow than the import side, so tell us what is moving and we will confirm the routing for your specific goods.

The answer depends on the commodity rather than on a general rule. Batteries, liquids and anything similar need their documentation up front, not at the warehouse. When you add a new product we check its admissibility with our broker in the United States before it goes into your catalogue. Tell us what it is early and you get a straight yes or no.