Import from China to Europe: the line you pay in yuan
Customs value comes from the invoice. Which is why the amount you paid has to match it.
Indicative reference rate, updated . Your payable amount is confirmed against your invoice before you fund.
Price the supplier invoice
Enter the invoice in yuan and choose how you would fund it.
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An import from China is mostly a euro calculation: sea freight, the customs broker, duty, import VAT, onward haulage — all to European parties, all in euro. Exactly one line falls outside that. The supplier's invoice is denominated in CNY, goes to a Chinese business account, and is the only row in your costing that Unigox touches. It is funded from USDT or USDC in your Unigox Wallet.
- CNY amount fixed before funding
- Invoice number travels with the payment
- Payout only to a company account
Customs value comes from the same invoice you pay.
Fix the CNY amount on the commercial invoice, fund it from the wallet balance, and keep the invoice number attached — so the payment, the declaration and the accounts describe one document.
- In euro
- Freight, duty, VAT
- In yuan
- Supplier invoice
- Funded from
- EUR · USDT · USDC
EUR
Bank transfer in the eurozone, then USDT
USDT
Native Unigox Wallet
USDC
Native Unigox Wallet
Recipient gets
ChinaCNY
The exact yuan stated on the invoice, paid to the recipient in China.
What does importing from China cost?
It costs in two currencies, and the yuan side is the smaller one. In CNY sit the supplier's invoice and, if you use them, Chinese forwarders, sourcing agents or inspection firms. In euro sit sea or air freight, the customs broker, duty and import VAT at clearance, and haulage to your warehouse — together usually the larger figure. Unigox prices only the CNY side, out of a USDT or USDC balance. We do not price the euro side, and we cannot tell you your duty rate.
Commodity code, customs value, import VAT, your EORI number and the declaration itself belong to your customs broker, your accountant and the customs authority, for your goods and your consignment. This page deliberately states no figure and makes no recommendation on any of it.
From recipient details to a tracked CNY payment
- 01
Add the recipient
Choose the supported China destination and enter the recipient details exactly as provided.
- 02
Enter the CNY invoice
Add the amount, purpose, relationship and optional invoice reference before pricing.
- 03
Choose how to fund
Select USDT or USDC from your native Unigox Wallet.
- 04
Review and follow the payment
Confirm the exact source and destination amounts, then follow the status from the same flow.
Pay from where your money already is
Unigox Wallet
Choose USDT or USDC
- Choose USDT or USDC
- Review the required wallet amount
- The recipient still receives CNY
Stablecoin rates and top-ups
The amount paid and the customs value declared must describe one invoice
The customs value of an import is normally derived from the transaction value — what you actually pay for the goods, evidenced by the commercial invoice. Which is exactly why paying the supplier is not a bookkeeping event. It is a record that has to still match a declaration years later.
The two mainly come apart in three ways. The supplier switches to euro at short notice, and currency and amount no longer match the order. The payment goes to a different company from the one on the invoice. Or less arrives than the invoice states because deductions were taken en route — on a conventional wire that is the normal case, not the exception.
The third of those cannot happen here by construction: you set the CNY amount to be credited and fund exactly that. Against the first two no product helps, only discipline — recipient name against the commercial invoice, invoice number on the payment, and a full stop if somebody names different bank details just before the deposit is due.
- Match the recipient's company name against the name on the commercial invoice before funding.
- Ask for the Chinese company name in characters as well, not only the Latin spelling.
- Bank details changed at short notice are a reason to stop, not a detail.
What belongs to you and what belongs to us
Duty, import VAT, commodity codes, customs valuation, your EORI number, the declaration itself, and which of those lines are pass-through for your business and which are genuine cost: all of that is your business. It belongs to your customs broker and your accountant, and it hangs on your goods, your status and your consignment. We name no rates and no thresholds, because any figure from us would be worth less than the one on your own declaration.
What we can say is where the boundary runs. Unigox prices a CNY invoice to a Chinese business account and settles it from your wallet balance. After that our involvement ends. We are not part of clearance, not part of transport, not part of the declaration and not part of your VAT return.
The yuan line, incidentally, behaves the same whether you are importing tyres, textiles, electronics or machinery. The euro side does not, because the charges hang on how the goods are classified. Two importers with an identical CNY invoice can therefore land on completely different total costs, and that is decided in the commodity code rather than in the payment.
- Our part: one CNY invoice, one Chinese business account, funded from the wallet.
- Your part: classification, valuation, declaration, charges, evidence.
- The band per payment runs from roughly 55 CNY to about 65,000 CNY, read from available liquidity.
We do not find suppliers — but the payment says something about them
We neither introduce suppliers nor rate them. What setting up a recipient does force, though, is a fact-check most buyers only run much later: the supplier has to be a company with a business account on the Chinese mainland, under its registered name, in Latin script and in Chinese characters, with an account number, a receiving bank and an eleven-digit mainland mobile number.
A contact who cannot or will not produce those details has told you something. A trading company that wants to collect through an employee's personal account will not later issue you a commercial invoice that matches your declaration. It cannot be worked around here: a personal account may exist as a format in the wider payment rail, but for this payment it is refused server-side, and so is an account in Hong Kong.
None of that is supplier due diligence. Whether a factory exists, whether it has the capacity, whether the goods meet specification — an audit, a visit or a pre-shipment inspection decides that, not a payment form. It is an early signal you get for free, and no more than that.
- Chinese forwarders, sourcing agents and inspection firms can be paid too if they hold a company account. The purpose is then services rather than goods.
- An agent who works exclusively through a personal account cannot be paid here.
- Recipient checks secure the payment path. They say nothing about product quality or ability to deliver.
Built for the way the eurozone pays China
Two things shape this flow: China is a major sourcing corridor for the eurozone, and the invoice at the end of it is written in yuan and paid into a mainland company account.
What European importers ask
01Can I import from China as a private individual and pay this way?
As the payer, yes — the restriction binds the recipient, not you. Only the account of a company on the Chinese mainland is credited; your own account goes through the usual identity checks. What a private import attracts in duty and import VAT, and what has to be declared, is a question for customs. No figure for it appears here on purpose.
02Can you calculate the duty on my goods?
No, and any figure from us would be worth less than the one on your declaration. Classification and valuation determine the charges, and both belong to your customs broker and the customs authority. We price the supplier's CNY invoice; everything further down the chain we do not price.
03My supplier wants to invoice in dollars or euro. Is that possible?
Payout is CNY into a Chinese business account, so the invoice has to be agreed in yuan. Many suppliers quoting in a foreign currency will switch when asked. If they will not, this is not the right route for that invoice.
04Do you help find or vet Chinese suppliers?
No. Unigox is a payment flow, not a sourcing agency. Recipient checks confirm the payout destination for the payment path; they say nothing about product quality, factory capacity, or whether what you ordered is what ships.
05What if the invoice is above the ceiling?
Then it is paid in tranches. The band is read from available liquidity and shown in the flow, so you see the ceiling before funding rather than after. Two payments against one commercial invoice number is the ordinary shape of a deposit and a balance.
Settle the yuan line. Your forwarder handles the rest.
Open the payment flow, add the recipient and compare EUR, USDT, USDC before funding.
Pay a supplier invoiceRelated China guides
Built primarily for businesses
Built for importers and repeat supplier payers. A private individual paying a business invoice runs the same checks and gets the same quote — the recipient on this route is always a company.