China to FBA freight
Where your China to FBA invoice gets padded
A one-page teardown from someone who has run these lanes for years. The six line items forwarders count on you not checking.
- Chargeable weight games. The divisor and how they measured decide your bill.
- CBM rounding. Partial cubic meters quietly rounded up.
- Fees left out of the all-in DDP quote. Entry, ISF, and bond that appear later.
- Destination handling. Terminal and last-mile to FBA billed on the side.
- Demurrage and detention. Port storage and container time passed through with markup.
- Currency conversion. The FX spread applied when they billed you.