Calculate true door-to-door landed costs for personal orders, evaluation samples, prototypes, and non-BIS battery / electronic items from 1688.com into India. Includes full procurement, warehouse QC, PayPal protection, and customs duty.
Clear answers on sample allowances, battery courier safety, and door delivery without commercial customs hurdles.
Under Indian Customs Foreign Trade Policy, evaluation prototypes, testing samples, and personal non-commercial gadgets are permitted without commercial BIS registration. Built-in lithium batteries and power devices route safely through our specialized Hong Kong DG express lane.
Small sample orders require the highest manual labor: Chinese factory communication, paying in RMB via PayPal escrow (4.5%), counting parts upon intake (4%), and reinforcing fragile prototypes in 5-ply export packaging with bubble wrap and corner guards (10%) so they survive international transit.
Chinese factories settle transactions in RMB. Overseas PayPal and card payments settle through international clearing banks pegged at $1 = ¥6.63. Your Indian bank applies a standard 3.5% cross-border markup when converting INR to USD, which our calculator factors in automatically.
If you're testing lightweight electronics or urgent prototypes under 10kg, Express Air (5–8 days) is recommended. If your testing batch is over 50kg or heavy hardware, our Economy Cargo corridor (25–60 days at ₹290/kg) offers maximum cost savings.