Importing from China: the one cost line paid in yuan
Nearly every line of your import cost is counted in rupiah. One is not, and that one is ours.
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Costing an import from China is mostly counting rupiah: sea or air freight, the customs brokerage, import duty and taxes, inland haulage to the warehouse — all of it owed to parties at home. Exactly one line escapes the pattern. The supplier's invoice is written in CNY, lands in a company account in mainland China, and that line alone is the one Unigox touches, settled from a USDT or USDC balance in your Unigox Wallet.
- The CNY figure fixed before funds leave
- Invoice number carried with the payment
- Company accounts only as recipients
Customs value comes from the same invoice you settle.
Fix the CNY figure on the commercial invoice, settle it from the wallet balance, and keep the invoice number, so payment, declaration and books describe one document.
- Counted in rupiah
- Freight, duty, tax
- Counted in yuan
- Supplier invoice
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The exact yuan stated on the invoice, paid to the recipient in China.
What does it cost to import from China?
It splits across two currencies, and the yuan side is usually the smaller one. In CNY there is the supplier's invoice and, if you use them, a forwarder, a sourcing agent or a quality inspector in China. In rupiah there is freight, the customs brokerage, import duty and taxes on release, and haulage to your warehouse — added together, generally the larger sum. The CNY side is what Unigox prices, drawing on a USDT or USDC balance. We do not compute the rupiah side, and we cannot tell you the duty rate on your goods.
Tariff classification, customs value, import duty and import taxes belong to your customs brokerage, your tax adviser and Customs, and they attach to your own goods and your own shipment. Not one of those figures appears on this page, deliberately.
Four things that have to be settled before there is a number
What decides whether a payment can happen is the recipient, not the size. Get these done while agreeing payment terms, not once the goods are in production.
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The recipient is a company
Funds go to a business account at a bank in mainland China. If your contact names a personal account — their own or a sales staffer's — that is not a typo: this route refuses it, and a Hong Kong account is refused too.
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The company name is asked for twice
Once in Latin letters, once as the registered name in Chinese characters. Ask for both early. A supplier who cannot state their registered name in Chinese characters usually cannot issue a commercial invoice that matches your customs declaration either.
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Purpose and relationship, per payment
Goods or services, supplier or service provider — declared on each payment rather than stored once in the recipient's record. Without both, no calculation is produced.
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A mainland Chinese mobile number
The recipient's details include a mainland Chinese mobile number. It is part of what is required on the receiving side, and it is easier to ask for alongside the account number than to chase later.
Checks run per payment and are repeated as soon as the recipient's details change. An account number corrected today is checked again before the next invoice, not after it.
From recipient details to a tracked CNY payment
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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.
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- Choose USDT or USDC
- Review the required wallet amount
- The recipient still receives CNY
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Customs value comes from what you genuinely paid
The customs value of an import is generally derived from the transaction value — from what you genuinely paid for the goods, evidenced by the commercial invoice. That makes settling with the supplier more than a bookkeeping matter. It is evidence that still has to agree with your customs declaration years later.
There are three ways a payment and a declaration part company. The supplier switches to dollars at the last minute, so currency and amount no longer match the order. The payment lands at a different company from the one on the invoice. Or less arrives than was stated, because something was deducted en route — on interbank telegraphic transfers that is ordinary rather than exceptional.
The third cannot happen on this route because of its shape: you state the CNY amount that has to be received, and that is precisely what is settled. The first two cannot be prevented by any product, only by discipline — match the recipient's name to the commercial invoice, carry the invoice number into the payment, and pause when somebody changes the account number just before the deposit.
- Match the recipient company's name to the name on the commercial invoice before funds leave.
- Ask for the company name in Chinese characters, not only the Latin spelling.
- A last-minute account change is a reason to stop, not a small detail.
Which part is yours and which part is ours
Tariff classification, customs value, import duty, import VAT, income tax on imports, business licensing and the customs declaration: all of those are yours. They belong to your customs brokerage and your tax adviser, and they depend on your goods, your status and your shipment. We name no rate and no threshold, because a figure from us would be worth less than the figure from your own declaration.
What we can state is where the boundary sits. Unigox prices one CNY invoice to one company account in mainland China and settles it from your wallet balance. After that our involvement stops. We take no part in your customs handling, your freight, your declarations or your tax reporting.
The yuan line behaves the same whether you are bringing in textiles, electronic components, spare parts or machinery. The rupiah side does not, because the levies attach to how the goods are classified. Two importers with identical CNY invoices can end at very different totals, and what decides it lives in the tariff heading rather than in the payment.
- Ours: one CNY invoice, one company account in China, funded from the wallet balance.
- Yours: classification, customs value, declarations, levies and the evidence behind them.
- The floor and ceiling per payment are read from liquidity and shown inside the flow.
1688, Alibaba, and a supplier who will only take a personal account
Many orders start on 1688 or Alibaba and then move into direct conversation with the factory. At that point the payment leaves the platform's protection and becomes an ordinary invoice settlement. We do not find suppliers and we do not rate them, but filling in the recipient's details forces one fact-check that often happens far too late.
The supplier has to be a company with a business account on the mainland, under its registered name, in Latin letters and Chinese characters, together with the account number, the receiving bank and a mainland mobile number. A party that cannot or will not provide all of that is telling you something. A trader who wants payment collected in a staff member's personal account generally will not issue a commercial invoice that matches your customs declaration either.
This is not a substitute for supplier due diligence. Whether the factory exists, whether it has the capacity, whether the goods meet the specification — that is decided by an audit, a visit or a pre-shipment inspection, not by a payment form. What you get here is an early signal, and its value is in the timing: it arrives before the deposit rather than after it.
- Forwarders, sourcing agents and inspection services in China can also be settled if they hold a company account; the purpose is services rather than goods.
- An agent who works only through a personal account cannot be paid on this route.
- The recipient check secures the payment path; about the quality of the goods it says nothing.
Wholesalers, online sellers and manufacturers settle the same invoice
The scale differs enormously, the mechanism does not. A Tanah Abang or Mangga Dua trader clearing a container, a Shopee or Tokopedia seller restocking from 1688, and a manufacturer bringing in components all end at one point: an invoice in CNY that has to land in a company account in China.
What differs is rhythm. Online sellers pay often and small; manufacturers pay rarely and large, usually split into a deposit and a balance. On this route each instalment is its own payment — its own calculation, its own checks, its own declared purpose. One calculation does not carry over to the next instalment, and the per-payment limits are measured per instalment rather than per order.
One more thing worth knowing before a first payment: this payment path is weeks old, not years. It has been built and tested end to end, but nothing has crossed it yet that deserves to be called routine. Start with a small order, a supplier who replies to messages, and no critical deadline hanging on it.
- A deposit and a balance are two payments, calculated and checked separately.
- The invoice number travels on every instalment, so your books and the supplier's describe the same document.
- Splitting a payment purely to sit under some limit is not something we support.
Built for the way Indonesia pays China
Two things shape this flow: China is a major sourcing corridor for Indonesia, and the invoice at the end of it is written in yuan and paid into a mainland company account.
Questions from Indonesian importers
01Can I settle a Chinese supplier in rupiah from my bank account?
Not on this route. The funding side is locked to one form only, a USDT or USDC balance in your Unigox Wallet; local-currency payment is not available and we are not promising it will be. Rupiah stays in your budget, your cost of goods and your books — just not inside the payment.
02Can Unigox work out my import duty and taxes?
No, and a figure from us would be worth less than the one from your own customs declaration. The levies are decided by how the goods are classified and how customs value is set, and both belong to your customs brokerage together with Customs. We price the supplier's CNY invoice; nothing further along that chain.
03My supplier bills in dollars. Does that still work here?
Not as a dollar invoice. This route credits CNY to a company account in China, so the invoice has to be agreed in yuan. Many suppliers who quote in dollars will reissue in CNY when asked. If they will not, that invoice is simply not for this path.
04Can I pay a supplier's account in Hong Kong?
No. This route ends at a bank in mainland China over its domestic clearing system, so a Hong Kong account is refused, as is anyone's personal account, the company owner's included.
05As an individual, can I import and pay this way?
As a payer, yes — the restriction is on the receiving side, not on you. Only a company account in mainland China can be credited, while your own account is subject to the usual identity checks. On customs and tax obligations for a personal import, ask Customs; there are deliberately no figures for that here.
06How long is a payment calculation valid?
About ten minutes. That limit exists to bound how stale the figure in front of you can be, not to lock a price for you; once it passes, the calculation is rebuilt against the market at that time. Because the CNY value on the invoice does not change, the only thing that moves is how much balance you have to part with.
07Does Unigox help find or vet suppliers in China?
No. Unigox is a payment flow, not a procurement agency. The recipient check confirms that the payment destination is suitable for this path; about product quality, factory capacity or whether what ships matches the order, it says nothing.
Settle the yuan line. The rest belongs to your customs broker.
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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.