Importing from China to Pakistan: the number we can fix, and the record you keep
The cheapest hour of a first import is the one spent with your bank, before the deposit.
Indicative reference rate, updated . Your payable amount is confirmed against your invoice before you fund.
Price a proforma in CNY
Enter the invoice in yuan and choose how you would fund it.
You send about
1,490.82 USDT
≈ Rs 413,349.45
1 USDT ≈ ¥6.71
Most people who look up a yuan figure are not buying anything. People who search for importing from China to Pakistan usually are, which is a reason to be narrow and useful rather than broad and encouraging. Two things are worth having straight before a deposit leaves. Exactly one line of your cost can be made firm today, and it is what the supplier is paid. And whatever anyone later asks you about the shipment, they will ask about documents — so the paperwork and the payment should be naming the same company from the very first week.
- The CNY total fixed before funding
- Business accounts on the mainland only
- No rule stated, no advice given
The estimate has exactly one exact line in it
Freight, clearing and demand stay guesses until they happen. The supplier's CNY total does not have to: it can be made firm before you agree to anything, and it is the first money to leave.
- Made exact
- The supplier's invoice
- Not stated here
- Duty or bank rules
- Funded with
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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 Pakistan?
There is no single figure, and a page that offers one has quietly assumed your shipment. Count what is actually inside it: what the factory charges at a quantity they will agree to, the freight and everything attached to it, insurance, clearing and whoever handles it for you, the duty and tax your goods attract once they have been classified, the journey inland, the weeks or months your capital is committed, and the share of any consignment that cannot be sold. One line of that can be made exact today, and it is the CNY total on the proforma. The duty and tax lines turn on classification and on rules we have not verified and are not going to paraphrase from memory — a clearing agent answers those, and answers them most cheaply before anything has been bought.
Nothing on this page is regulatory advice, and it names no rule on purpose. What applies to your import and to your payments is for your own bank and your own adviser to tell you.
Four things worth having in writing before you fund
Whatever anyone asks about this shipment later — your bank, your adviser, your own accounts — they will ask about documents. Each of these is cheap to get right during a negotiation and awkward to reconstruct afterwards.
- 01
An invoice, not a chat message
A proforma carrying the company's name, the goods described, the quantity, the terms and a CNY total. A price agreed in a messaging app is a memory, and a memory is not something anyone can be shown later.
- 02
One company, spelled the same way everywhere
The Latin-script registered name, the same company written in Chinese characters, the receiving bank, a mainland mobile number, and an account number copied from a statement rather than read off a photograph of a letterhead. If the invoice names one company and the bank details name another, that is the moment to stop and ask why rather than to work around it.
- 03
A payment described as what it is
Each payment declares goods or services, with the recipient recorded as your supplier or a service provider. Goods to the factory; services to the agent who inspected or consolidated them. If an arrangement fits neither description, it does not fit this route.
- 04
Your bank's view, obtained first
We do not know what your bank expects of you and are not going to guess at it. Ask them, and ask your adviser, while the order is still a quotation — when the answer can still change what you do rather than only what it costs you.
These are the payment route's own requirements plus ordinary caution about records. They are not advice, and they say nothing about what any rule requires of you.
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 record is the part that outlives the shipment
A first import generates a surprising quantity of evidence and almost none of it is organised. Screenshots, a messaging thread, a forwarder's voice note, a payment somebody made on your behalf because it was easier that week. All of it is fine right up until somebody asks a question about it, and then the difference between an importer who answers in a minute and one who spends a fortnight reconstructing the story is entirely a matter of what was collected at the time.
The version that holds up is dull. One company issues the invoice. The same company receives the payment. The payment says what it was for. What arrives matches what the invoice described. None of that is a rule we are stating — it is simply what any record has to be able to do, and it is far cheaper to build while a supplier is still trying to win your order than once they have your deposit.
Where the route is rigid, and why that helps here
The payout reaches a business account at a bank on the Chinese mainland, over the domestic network those banks clear through. A personal account is refused. A Hong Kong account is outside it. The company has to exist in two scripts, and the account number has to match the statement rather than a number retyped from memory or read off a photograph.
As a feature list that is unremarkable. As a discipline it is worth a good deal more, because it removes the most common way a first payment goes wrong: money sent to a person who was being helpful, at whichever bank was convenient, against an invoice issued by somebody else. And if a supplier cannot receive into their own company's account, that is information about the company you are about to buy from — arriving before the deposit rather than after it.
The one number that stops moving
Enter the CNY total from the proforma and the flow returns the two figures that decide your cost before you approve anything: what you fund, and the exact yuan your supplier receives. There is no separate fee to add on, because the cost is already inside the amount you fund — which is why the comparison worth making is those two numbers against each other rather than either against a headline rate.
You fund from a USDT or USDC balance in your Unigox Wallet. This journey has no PKR collection leg, so no rupees are involved in the payment itself, and building that balance is a step you arrange yourself in a market we neither set a price in nor observe. Your supplier sees none of it: an ordinary yuan credit arrives in their company account, which is usually the answer to the question they ask the moment you tell them how you intend to pay.
A price holds for ten minutes. That bounds how stale the figure can get rather than fixing it in place — the amount is settled when the payout is matched, and a lapsed price is re-priced rather than honoured. A floor and a ceiling apply too, read from live liquidity at the moment you ask and shown in the flow, which is also why a container-scale order becomes a staged-payment conversation with the factory rather than one instruction. And the route is weeks old rather than years, built and tested end to end with no long production history behind it: make the first one small, and keep a time-critical shipment off a path you have never used.
Built for the way Pakistan pays China
Two things shape this flow: China is a major sourcing corridor for Pakistan, and the invoice at the end of it is written in yuan and paid into a mainland company account.
What a first-time importer asks here
01Does Unigox open a letter of credit or work through my bank?
No. Nothing here is a bank instrument, and we neither arrange one nor advise on one nor replace one. This is a payment made against an invoice: you fund it from a stablecoin balance, and your supplier's company account in mainland China receives CNY. Whether an instrument is expected for what you are buying is a question for your bank, and we will not answer it on their behalf.
02Can I pay the supplier in Pakistani rupees?
No. Rupees are not part of this payment at any point. You fund it from a stablecoin balance, and whatever it took to build that balance stays on your side of the transaction, with you and your own bank.
03Can one order be paid as a deposit and then a balance?
Yes. They are two ordinary payments against the same commercial invoice, priced separately at the moment each one is made, so the second reflects the market then rather than now. Both sit inside the floor and ceiling shown in the flow, which come from live liquidity rather than from a published limit.
04The supplier wants payment to an account in Hong Kong. Can that work?
Not on this route. The payout reaches mainland Chinese business accounts and nothing else. Ask for the mainland company account the invoice is issued against; a manufacturer selling into export markets will usually have one, and the request is an ordinary one to make.
05Can I use this to pay a Chinese company for a service rather than goods?
Yes, and it is declared that way. Each payment records whether it is for goods or services, and whether the recipient is your supplier or a service provider — an inspection company or a freight agent billing you for their own work is the second of those. The destination is unchanged: a company with a mainland account.
Fix the supplier's number while everything else is still an estimate
Open the payment flow, add the recipient and compare USDT, USDC before funding.
Price the supplier's CNY totalRelated 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.