STEP 1
Brief and quote
What you need, in what volumes, by when. We come back with a price landed in the Emirates rather than an ex-works number that grows later.
Market · Dubai · Abu Dhabi · Sharjah
Almost every business in the UAE buys from China, and almost all of them buy blind — ordering from photographs and finding out what arrived when the container is opened. We put people between you and the factory, on the factory’s side of the ocean.
Four kinds of business where buying blind from China is expensive in a way that does not show up on the invoice.
Sector 01
Hospitality & food service
Tableware, textiles, furniture, amenities and equipment — bought repeatedly, and judged by guests every day. Consistency between orders matters more than the unit price.
Sector 02
Retail & wholesale
Where margin comes from having a product nobody else has. Own brand rather than the same catalogue item every competitor is importing from the same source.
Sector 03
Interior fit-out
Where the date decides everything. Materials produced ahead, stored in our warehouse in China and released against the site programme rather than all at once.
Sector 04
Salons, clinics & e-commerce
Smaller volumes, higher sensitivity to quality and packaging, and a real need for a supplier who can be held to a specification.
No complicated routing, no third countries. You contract with our Chinese company and the goods come to you.
STEP 1
What you need, in what volumes, by when. We come back with a price landed in the Emirates rather than an ex-works number that grows later.
STEP 2
Directly with Hainan Silent International Trade Co., Ltd, in USD or CNY. Company registration published and verifiable before you transfer anything.
STEP 3
We follow the run, take the goods into our warehouse, check them against the specification and reject what fails while the factory still has to fix it.
STEP 4
Sea into Jebel Ali or air into Dubai, with documents prepared for clearance and onward delivery to your address.
Thinking about your own brand? Tell us the category and we will come back with realistic minimum quantities, sample costs and a timeline — the numbers, not the sales pitch.
About own-brand productionControl and predictability
We sell control and predictability in China
You are in the Emirates, the factory is in China. We sit on the factory's side, and everything that matters is settled before the container sails.
Checked before it ships
Written into the contract before you pay
Customs duty in the UAE follows the common GCC tariff: 5% of the CIF value — the cost of the goods plus freight and insurance to the UAE port. Import VAT of 5% is then charged on CIF plus duty, and a VAT-registered business normally recovers it as input tax.
Checked 17 October 2026: GCC Common Customs Tariff; UAE Federal Tax Authority (tax.gov.ae); UAE MoFA — move to eDAS 2.0. Rate used: USD 1 = AED 3.6725 (pegged).
Our side · China
Your side · UAE
For most goods, 5% of the CIF value — the price of the goods plus freight and insurance to the UAE port. This is the common GCC tariff. Alcohol is 50%, tobacco products 100% and some essential goods 0%. Import VAT of 5% is then charged on CIF plus duty. We confirm the rate by HS code before shipment.
The taxes are 5% duty on CIF and 5% VAT on CIF plus duty. For goods entering the local market on an invoice of AED 10,000 or more, invoice attestation by the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs adds AED 150. Broker, port and delivery charges depend on the shipment and are itemised in our quote when door delivery is included. The calculator on this page estimates the taxes.
Yes. The importer is a UAE company with a trade licence covering trading or import activity and a customs client code — in Dubai, a registration with Dubai Customs. If you do not have one yet, tell us how your business is set up and we will explain the options.
In a free zone, customs duty is suspended while the goods stay in the zone and can be avoided entirely on re-export. When the goods are released to the local market, the 5% duty is paid on entry to the mainland. Invoice attestation is not required for imports into a free zone.
It depends on the mode — a full container by sea or air freight — the port of loading, the cargo and clearance. We calculate it for the actual shipment and put it in the contract together with the landed price, rather than advertising a number that rarely survives contact with a real booking.
Directly to our Chinese company, Hainan Silent International Trade Co., Ltd, in USD or CNY. The contract is with that entity and the goods are shipped from China to you — a straightforward international purchase with no third jurisdiction involved.
Sea freight goes as full containers into Jebel Ali, the main container gateway for the region; smaller and urgent consignments go by air into Dubai. Onward delivery to Abu Dhabi, Sharjah or elsewhere in the Emirates is part of the quote rather than an afterthought.
Yes, and for many UAE businesses it is the more interesting half of what we do. Hotels, restaurant groups, retailers and fit-out contractors regularly end up buying the same catalogue items as everyone else. Producing to your own specification, with your packaging, changes the economics of a category.
Always, if we are supplying the goods — and on request if you have your own supplier. The batch comes into our warehouse in Guangzhou or Yiwu and is checked against the specification before it is loaded. Distance makes this more valuable, not less.
Hospitality and food service, retail and wholesale, salons and clinics, interior fit-out contractors and online sellers. What they have in common is buying repeatedly from China and needing someone at the other end who is accountable rather than merely responsive.
Describe the product and the volume. We come back with a workable structure, a quote including landed cost, and an honest lead time — or with the reasons we would not take it on.