Importing from China to India: what we can price, and what we will not guess
What India searches hardest here is exactly what we are least qualified to answer.
Indicative reference rate, updated . Your payable amount is confirmed against your invoice before you fund.
Price a supplier's CNY invoice
Enter the invoice in yuan and choose how you would fund it.
You send about
1,490.82 USDT
≈ ₹1,42,294.03
1 USDT ≈ ¥6.71
Rank what people actually type and the order is tax, charges, price, procedure, duty. Those are the questions — and a payments company answering them from memory would be handing you harm dressed as help. What can be pinned down is the supplier payment: a CNY figure that stops moving once it is agreed, on a route with specific, checkable requirements. Everything else belongs to your customs broker, your CA and your bank, and it belongs to them before you pay a deposit.
- CNY total fixed before funding
- Mainland company accounts only
- No duty or tax advice offered
One line holds still. Start there.
Duty depends on classification, freight on the week, demand on your own market. The proforma total is the one input that can be turned into a firm number today.
- We can fix
- The CNY invoice
- We will not guess
- Duty or freight
- Funded with
- INR · USDT · USDC
INR
Bank transfer in India, 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 it cost to import from China to India?
Nobody can hand you a figure without the shipment. The terms are the supplier's price at the quantity they will actually accept, freight and its surcharges, insurance, clearing, the duties and taxes that apply to your particular goods once they are classified, inland movement, the months your money sits still between paying and selling, and the share of every consignment that arrives wrong. Exactly one of those can be fixed today, and it is the one we handle. The duty and tax lines depend on classification and on rules we have not verified and will not paraphrase — your customs broker and your CA answer those, and the answer sometimes changes which product you buy at all.
We would rather leave a gap on this page than fill it with a number that reads authoritative and is not. The people who can fill it are cheaper to consult before a deposit than after one.
Before a deposit leaves, four things should already be true
Most of what goes wrong on a first Indian import order goes wrong at the payee, not at the product. These are checkable during negotiation, when asking is free.
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The invoice and the payee are one company
If the proforma is from one factory and the bank details name a person, an unrelated company or a friend of the sales contact, stop and ask why before you send anything. This route refuses an individual's account outright, which turns an awkward question into an automatic one.
- 02
The agent's fee is its own invoice
Sourcing, inspection and consolidation are services with their own price. If your agent invoices you for them, the agent is the supplier for that payment and their company account is the destination. Folding a commission into the factory's payment leaves you with a number neither party can reconcile.
- 03
The company exists in two scripts
You need the registered name in Latin letters, up to 50 characters, and the same company in Chinese characters, plus the account number as their statement prints it and a mainland mobile number. Trading contacts routinely supply one script and not the other, and the gap is easier to close before money is due.
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Somebody qualified has seen the structure
Your customs broker knows what classification will do to your landed cost, and your CA knows what your books need to be able to show. Both are inexpensive at the quotation stage and expensive at the container stage.
These are the payment route's requirements plus some hard-won caution. They are not advice, and they say nothing about whether the goods are any good.
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
Two completely different people arrive at this search
One of them wants to buy something. The other wants numbers — import from china to india last 10 years, year wise, data — and is writing a paper, a pitch deck or a policy note. If that is you, nothing below is for you, and we would rather say so than keep you scrolling past a payment widget.
The short version for that reader: bilateral figures come from official trade statistics on either side, they are revised after first publication, and the two countries' numbers for the same trade do not match. Mirror statistics diverge over valuation conventions, timing at the border, and goods that pass through a third place on the way. Any chart showing one clean line has picked a side's series without telling you which.
The agent layer, and the exact moment the route says no
India searches for import agents harder than most markets, which makes sense: a good agent in Guangzhou or Yiwu is worth their fee for factory vetting and consolidation alone. It also creates the structure where first-time money disappears. The pattern is always the same shape — the invoice comes from one entity, the payment instruction names another, and there is a plausible reason involving a bank problem, a holiday, or a colleague who handles receipts.
This route is unhelpfully rigid about that, which is the point. The destination has to be a business account at a mainland Chinese bank on the CNAPS rail, and an individual's account is refused server-side. So the conversation you might have avoided out of politeness happens anyway, and it happens before your money moves rather than after.
The one number we are allowed to be precise about
Enter the CNY total from the supplier's proforma and the flow shows what you fund and what they receive, including the fee, before you approve anything. Funding is USDT or USDC held in your Unigox Wallet. The invoice cannot be collected in rupees — the collection leg is a single fixed currency in the backend and it is not INR — but the balance itself can be bought with them on Unigox, priced and shown there like any other pair. Your supplier receives ordinary CNY into their company account and never touches a stablecoin, which is usually their first question when you tell them how you are paying.
Amounts are bounded at both ends, drawn from live liquidity rather than promised: quoting has been running from roughly 55 CNY to about 65,000 CNY, with the figures that apply to your payment shown in the flow. A deposit and a balance are simply two payments, each priced when you make it, and a larger order is a staged-payment conversation to have with the factory while you are still agreeing terms.
The business payout route is weeks old, not years — wired and tested end to end, with no production history behind it yet. Make the first one small, and do not put a time-critical shipment on a route you have never used.
The obligations we are not going to summarise
An Indian importer has responsibilities around paying an overseas supplier, and India-China payments have attracted particular attention. We have not verified what applies to you, so this page states no rule, no threshold and no procedure. That is a deliberate refusal, not an oversight, and it holds even when the question seems simple.
The one thing worth saying plainly: no funding method discharges any of it, and if a route ever appeals to you mainly because it looks like it avoids something, that is a reason to ask your bank and your adviser before you use it rather than a reason to use it.
Built for the way India pays China
Two things shape this flow: China is a major sourcing corridor for India, and the invoice at the end of it is written in yuan and paid into a mainland company account.
First-time importer questions from India
01How much duty will I pay on my shipment?
We do not know and will not estimate. It depends on how your goods are classified and on rules we have not verified. A customs broker will tell you before you buy, which is the only useful time to find out.
02Can I pay the supplier in rupees?
Not in this journey. There is no INR collection leg, so funding is USDT or USDC from your Unigox Wallet and the rupee side stays with you and your bank.
03My agent wants me to pay their personal account. Is that normal?
It is common and it is where first-time import money most often goes missing. This route will refuse it regardless: the destination must be a company account at a mainland Chinese bank. Ask for the company's own details, and treat reluctance as information.
04Can I pay a deposit now and the balance later?
Yes. They are two ordinary payments, each priced at the moment you make it, so the second one reflects the market then rather than now. Both sit inside the same amount band shown in the flow.
05Is there a minimum order value I can pay for?
Quoting has gone down to roughly 55 CNY in practice, with the live floor shown in the flow, so a sample order is workable. The cost is already inside the amount you fund rather than shown as a separate line, so compare that amount against the CNY the supplier receives — on a payment that small the gap is a noticeable share of it.
Pin the supplier's number while the rest is still guesswork
Open the payment flow, add the recipient and compare INR, USDT, USDC before funding.
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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.