FBA prep and shipping from China:
labelled, checked and delivered to Amazon

Prep is everything that has to be true before an Amazon warehouse will accept your cartons: each carton carries two or more FBA labels, pieces over 22.5 kg carry a Team Lift mark, pieces over 15 kg carry a Heavy Package mark, cartons are re-taped and squared off, the packing list matches what is inside, and palletised shipments are built to the size and weight the lane accepts. We check all of that at our Guangzhou warehouse — before the cargo is 8,000 km away with no way to fix it.

Both, on one booking. Our contracted forwarder's September 2026 card carries door-to-door DDP lanes to US, UK and Canadian FBA warehouses — air at 6–9 working days to pickup on US lanes and 5–7 on UK lanes, sea at 16–22 natural days from departure to the US, 25–40 days to Canada depending on coast — with the duty and the tax paid by us. Consolidating the prep and the freight under one party is the point: if a carton fails a label check, it is our staff catching it, not Amazon rejecting the whole shipment.

Yes — we ship to the warehouse code on your shipping plan, and on the Canadian card Vancouver FBA warehouses (YVR1–4 and YXX) have their own published rate from RMB 1,450 per CBM. Send us the codes with the shipping plan and we quote the exact lane, tier and delivery fee for each warehouse, because the code decides which port and which city zone the cargo runs through.

On the same rate card: US air priority RMB 54–68/kg, US air economy RMB 57–71/kg, Matson sea RMB 13.5–20/kg and Yantian standard sea RMB 10.8–17/kg depending on your ZIP zone; UK air from RMB 36–62/kg depending on lane and import VAT basis; Canada from RMB 1,450–3,300 per CBM to Vancouver and RMB 1,550–2,250 to Toronto. Commercial delivery surcharges apply on US lanes (+RMB 1/kg), and Canadian customs documentation is RMB 500 per shipment via Vancouver or RMB 350 via Toronto. These are the card's published bands — the exact price comes back in writing within 48 hours.

The rejections we see are almost all preparation failures rather than shipping failures: labels missing, unreadable or on the wrong face of the carton; pieces over 22.5 kg with no Team Lift mark or over 15 kg with no Heavy Package mark; cartons bulging or taped over the label; mixed SKUs in one carton without a label for each; a packing list that does not match the contents; and pallets over the size or weight the destination accepts. Every one of those is checked at our warehouse while the goods are still in China, which is the only place a fix is cheap.

Yes, on the right lane — and this is where booking the wrong one costs you a month. Built-in batteries and magnetic goods travel on air economy (C) lanes in the US and UK, and on Yantian standard sea freight to the US; air priority (P) and the Matson express lane refuse them. Cosmetics, skincare, food without meat, egg or dairy, and supplements travel on the Canadian MG express lane from RMB 17/kg, with an ingredient list required before booking and formal clearance at Vancouver and Toronto. Pure batteries and power banks are refused everywhere.

To the USA: 6–8 working days to pickup by air priority, 7–9 by air economy, about 16 natural days by Matson sea and about 22 by standard sea, all counted from cargo receipt (air) or vessel departure (sea). To the UK: 5–7 working days by air and 25–30 days by rail-truck. To Canada: 25–30 days door-to-door to Vancouver and 35–40 days to Toronto. Add 3–7 days in China for collection, checking, prep and export clearance — and remember Amazon's own receiving queue sits after that.

We can, and for FBA sellers it is usually worth it. The prep pass includes a quantity check against your PO and photographs of what actually arrived; add a pre-shipment inspection and we run an AQL sample with a written report, functional testing where it applies and photo evidence before anything is labelled and closed. Catching a defect rate of a few per cent at that stage is cheaper than a removal order from an Amazon warehouse.