# Docket > Just send us your list. Docket does the rest — sourcing, factory checks, negotiation in Mandarin, inspection, consolidation, freight, customs, delivered duty paid. Built for teams importing electrical parts from China. A specialised AI worker runs each stage of the chain; our people inspect, consolidate and clear customs. Shipping to Pakistan today; other destinations on request. Class 9 lithium cells handled. Last updated: 2026-09-19. Source of truth: https://www.godocket.ai ## What we do - **One supplier for a manufacturer's parts list**: send the BOM or shopping list; we find a factory for every line, quote factory-direct, run one QC process across factories, consolidate into one shipment and deliver duty paid with one invoice. Parts and components first (e.g. a robot or battery-pack maker buying 20 items from China); finished equipment too. - **Sourcing**: find the manufacturer in China (Baidu, factory websites, audited marketplaces), verify factory vs trader, negotiate price / MOQ / lead time in Mandarin, name the supplier to the buyer. Optional factory-floor audit. - **Freight (DDP)**: factory pickup, export clearance, sea freight, import customs in Pakistan as importer of record, duties and taxes paid, delivery to the buyer's door. One delivered price, live tracking. - **Dangerous goods**: Class 9 lithium cells (UN3480) accepted — DG declaration, UN38.3 test summary, DG-rated booking. - Freight-only is welcome: the buyer keeps their own supplier. - **The AI is the differentiator**: procurement is a chain of different jobs, so we run a specialised AI worker for each — discovery, verification, outreach, negotiation and the record. That is how a small team covers a twenty-line list at once and reaches factory-direct prices in days rather than weeks. Our people make the calls and do the physical work. The buyer never touches the software and there is no seat to buy. ## Destinations - **China → Pakistan** — https://www.godocket.ai/destinations/china-to-pakistan - Origin: Shenzhen · consolidated · DG-rated booking available - Port: Karachi - You pay in: Goods in RMB, to the factory · delivered price in PKR, to us - Transit: 20–30 days by sea - Delivery: Karachi · Lahore · Faisalabad · Islamabad · any city - Customs: Cleared in our name as importer of record · duty and taxes paid - Cargo: Electronics · lithium cells (Class 9) · inverters · stabilizers - Planned, not yet running: China → US, US → Pakistan, China → UAE. - Other destinations: on request — we say honestly within 24 hours whether we can serve the lane. - Sea freight only (no air). ## Cargo - Industries: electronics, energy storage (lithium cells and packs, Class 9 DG), inverters, voltage stabilizers; automotive coming. - Categories we can claim experience in: - Electronics · PCBAs, controllers, chargers, components - Energy storage · Lithium cells, battery packs, BMS — shipped as Class 9 DG - Inverters · Solar and hybrid inverters, charge controllers - Voltage stabilizers · IGBT and servo, single- and three-phase - Something else? Send it anyway — we'll tell you honestly in 24 hours whether we're the right people for it. ## Pricing (published) - 10% — Orders under $25,000 - 8% — $25,000 – $100,000 - 6% — Above $100,000 - Charged on the value of the order, invoiced separately from the goods — never inside your unit price. - The goods money goes straight to the factory's own account. We never hold it — freight, duty and our commission come on a separate invoice from us. - Delivered price: Your delivered price is quoted before anything ships and broken out line by line: sea freight, duty at the real rate, customs clearing and local delivery. Our margin is in it and stated, not buried. - Containers: No container of your own? Ship in ours. We are the importer of record, so you do not need to be. - Currencies: Two currencies: the goods in the factory's own currency (RMB from China), paid by you to the factory; our fee, freight, duty and clearing in yours, paid to us. The tiers below are in USD for comparison only. - Customs declaration: We declare the true value of your goods. No under-invoicing, no misdeclaration, no second set of papers — which is why the landed number we quote is the one customs actually assesses. - Factory-floor audit: a fixed fee per day, agreed before anyone travels. - Quotes are free. Minimum order USD 5,000. - Guarantee: If we can't beat the landed cost you pay today, you owe us nothing. ## How to get a quote - Web form: https://www.godocket.ai/#rfq (product, quantity, delivery city — or supplier + cargo for freight-only) - WhatsApp: +971 54 594 4757 — https://wa.me/971545944757?text=Hi%2C%20I%20need%20help%20with%20sourcing%20%2F%20shipping%20from%20China.%20Here%20is%20what%20I%20need%3A - Email: raheel@godocket.ai - First reply within 24 hours: candidate factories with prices, or a landed freight quote. - Languages: English, Urdu (buyer side); Mandarin (supplier side). ## Recent work - **EVE lithium cells, shipped as dangerous goods.** (DG cargo · Class 9) — Class 9 hazardous cargo. Many forwarders refuse it. We shipped EVE cells China to Pakistan: DG declaration, UN38.3 summary, DG-rated booking, duty paid. Facts: Class 9 dangerous goods; UN3480 lithium-ion cells; DDP duty paid, delivered. - **10 kVA IGBT stabilizer, found factory-direct.** (Sourcing run · engine) — Market price $980 a unit. Our engine read Baidu and factory sites, found nine manufacturers, and pulled a ¥6,000 (about $840) factory-direct quote. Facts: 9 factories found; 6 with their own websites; ¥6,000 per unit, factory-direct. - **Our own containers, for ten years.** (Own imports · 10 years) — Voltec Appliances is our family business in Lahore. Stabilizers and power equipment from China, every year. We ship for you the way we ship for ourselves. Facts: 10 yrs importing this lane; Lahore delivered. ## Company - Name: Docket - Office: Karachi, Pakistan - Founder: Raheel Ahmad — 10 years importing power equipment from China for Voltec Appliances. - Role in the transaction: sourcing agent and freight forwarder; importer of record for the Pakistan import. The buyer pays the factory directly; our fee, freight and duty are invoiced separately. - Website: https://www.godocket.ai ## FAQ **Q: Can you handle a whole parts list?** A: Yes. Send the BOM, a spreadsheet or photos. We quote every line factory-direct, run one QC process, and deliver it as one shipment with one invoice. **Q: Do you supply parts or finished products?** A: Both. Manufacturers send us the parts they buy from China; importers send us finished equipment. Same process. **Q: Where do you deliver?** A: Pakistan today, duty paid to your door. Somewhere else? Ask. We will tell you honestly within 24 hours. **Q: I already have suppliers. Can I use just the freight?** A: Yes. Send the suppliers, the products and the packing lists, or weight and CBM. We consolidate and quote one delivered price. **Q: What does DDP include?** A: Everything from the factory gates to your door. Export clearance, consolidation, sea freight, insurance, import customs in our name, duties and taxes, delivery. One price. **Q: Can you ship dangerous goods, like lithium cells?** A: Yes. We have shipped EVE lithium cells (Class 9) from China to Pakistan: DG declaration, UN38.3 test summary, DG-rated booking. **Q: How do you find factories others miss?** A: Our engine reads the Chinese web like a local: Baidu, factory websites, audited marketplaces. Then we rank factories first, traders last. **Q: Will I know who the factories are?** A: Always. Name, location, quote, and how we found them. No broker wall. **Q: What does it cost?** A: 10% (orders under $25,000), 8% ($25,000 – $100,000), 6% (above $100,000), charged on the value of the order, invoiced separately from the goods — never inside your unit price. Delivery is a separate number covering sea freight, duty, customs clearing and local delivery, quoted before anything ships and broken out line by line. Quotes are free. Minimum order $5,000. If we can't beat the landed cost you pay today, you owe us nothing. **Q: Who do I pay?** A: The factory, directly, against the invoice we show you. We never hold your goods money. Freight, duty and our fee come on a separate invoice. **Q: What if the goods are wrong?** A: We inspect at each factory against your written spec before it ships, with photos. Final payment waits for a pass. If it fails: rework, reject or renegotiate — in Mandarin, by us. **Q: How fast is the first reply?** A: Within 24 hours of your request: candidate factories with prices for every line, or a landed freight quote. ## Answers Longer answers to the questions buyers ask before importing. Each has its own page under https://www.godocket.ai/answers. ### How do you tell a Chinese factory from a trading company? *https://www.godocket.ai/answers/factory-or-trading-company · updated 2026-09-19* **Short answer.** Read the business licence, not the listing. A manufacturer's licence has production or manufacturing (生产 / 制造) in its business scope; a trading company's says trade. Then check that the registered address is an industrial one, ask for a live video call on the production line, and look at who is named on the export documents and the VAT invoice. Marketplace badges like Gold Supplier or Verified are paid or audit-of-paperwork signals — they do not tell you whether the company owns a machine. **What the business licence tells you** Every Chinese company has a business licence (营业执照) with a stated business scope. A manufacturer's scope contains production or manufacturing terms — 生产 or 制造 — against the product category. A trading company's scope is trade or wholesale. This is the single most reliable document-level check, and any real supplier will send you a copy. Cross-check the licence against the public registry rather than trusting the PDF you were sent. Registered capital, year of establishment and the legal representative are all on the record. **Signals that prove nothing** Gold Supplier, Verified Supplier and similar marketplace badges are mostly a function of what the seller pays and whether their paperwork was checked. They are not a statement that the company manufactures. Factory photos on a listing prove even less. The same stock images circulate across dozens of storefronts, and a trading company will happily photograph the factory it buys from. A company saying "we are the factory" in chat is not evidence. Ask for the licence. **Signals that do** A registered address in an industrial park rather than an office tower, and one that matches the product category. A live video call walking the line, unscripted, on a day you choose. Consistency between registered capital, headcount and the capacity being claimed. Who issues the VAT invoice, and who holds the export licence. If a third company appears on the export documents, you are buying through someone. Whether they can talk about tooling, tolerances and process without checking with anyone. A reseller can quote a price; they usually cannot argue about a drawing. **Why this changes the price you pay** A trader's margin sits inside the unit price, so you cannot see it — and because import duty is charged on the invoice value, you pay duty on that margin too. The markup is charged twice: once by the trader, once by customs. A trading company is not automatically the wrong choice. For small quantities, mixed orders or a factory that will not deal with foreign buyers, a trader can be the sensible route. The problem is paying factory-direct prices for a reseller without being told. **What we do about it** We check the licence scope, read the company's own site, and verify the manufacturer against the registry before a quote goes out. Every supplier is named to you, and a trader is named as a trader rather than dressed up as a factory. **Q: Can I check a Chinese company's business licence myself?** A: Yes. Ask the supplier for a copy of the 营业执照, then verify the company name and registration number against China's public company registry. You are checking that the business scope mentions production or manufacturing for the product you are buying, and that the company has been trading long enough to have a record. **Q: Does Gold Supplier status mean a supplier is a factory?** A: No. Marketplace supplier tiers reflect paid membership and document checks, not whether a company manufactures anything. A trading company can hold the highest tier on any marketplace. **Q: Is it bad to buy through a trading company?** A: Not necessarily. Traders are useful for small or mixed orders and for factories that will not deal directly with foreign buyers. What costs you money is not knowing — because the margin is inside the unit price, and import duty is then charged on that inflated value as well. ### DDP, FOB or EXW: which should you buy on when importing from China? *https://www.godocket.ai/answers/ddp-fob-or-exw · updated 2026-09-19* **Short answer.** EXW means you take the goods at the factory door and run everything yourself. FOB means the supplier gets the goods onto the vessel and you own the sea freight, destination customs, duty and delivery. DDP means one delivered price to your door with duties and taxes paid, and the seller does the work. EXW and FOB give you visible, controllable costs but require you to manage freight and customs; DDP removes that work but is only worth having if whoever quotes it will actually act as importer of record and has named duty inside the number. **What each term covers** EXW (Ex Works): the supplier makes the goods available at their premises. Loading, export clearance, inland transport, freight, insurance, import clearance, duty and delivery are all yours. It is the cheapest-looking quote and the most work. FOB (Free On Board): the supplier handles inland transport and export clearance and loads onto the vessel at the named port. From that point the freight, destination customs, duty and final delivery are yours. FOB is the usual middle ground for buyers who already have a forwarder. DDP (Delivered Duty Paid): the seller delivers to your named address with import duties and taxes paid. It is the maximum obligation on the seller under Incoterms. **Where the surprise costs hide** On EXW, the costs that catch people out are export clearance in China — which a foreign buyer usually cannot do in their own name — plus origin terminal handling and documentation fees. On FOB, the sea freight is the visible part. Destination terminal handling, delivery order fees, storage and demurrage if clearance is slow, and duty and taxes on the landed value are the invisible part. On DDP, the cost is whatever the seller has decided to build in — which is why a DDP number is only as good as the breakdown behind it. **The duty base matters more than the Incoterm** Import duty is assessed on the declared value. If you buy through a trader or an agent who marks up the unit price, duty is charged on the marked-up figure, so the margin costs you twice — once as margin and once as duty on that margin. That is why a factory-direct invoice with a separately stated service fee can land cheaper than a bundled quote even when the headline percentage looks similar. **When a DDP quote is a trap** A DDP price is only meaningful if the party quoting it is willing to be the importer of record and carries the customs risk. Some quotes marked DDP are in practice delivered-at-place with duty invoiced to you later, or rely on undervaluing the declaration — which leaves the exposure with you. Ask three questions before accepting one: who is named as importer of record, what duty rate and HS code the number assumes, and what happens to demurrage if clearance is delayed. **What we quote** We quote DDP and act as importer of record, so customs runs in our name and the delivered number is the number. We are also happy to handle freight only if you already have suppliers and just want the lane run. **Q: Is DDP cheaper than FOB?** A: Not inherently — DDP is FOB plus freight, customs, duty and delivery, priced by someone else. It is cheaper in practice when the party quoting it consolidates shipments and clears in its own name, and more expensive when it is a trader bundling a margin into a single opaque number. **Q: Who is the importer of record on a DDP shipment?** A: Under DDP it should be the seller or their nominated agent, not you. This matters because the importer of record carries the customs liability. Get it in writing, because some DDP quotes quietly leave you as the importer. **Q: Can a Chinese supplier quote DDP to my country?** A: Many will quote it, but most cannot clear customs in your country in their own name and are relying on a forwarder to do it. That is fine when the arrangement is explicit and the duty basis is stated, and a problem when it is not. ### How do you ship lithium batteries or cells from China? *https://www.godocket.ai/answers/shipping-lithium-batteries-from-china · updated 2026-09-19* **Short answer.** Lithium batteries are Class 9 dangerous goods. Cells and batteries shipped on their own are UN3480; the same cells packed with or installed in equipment are UN3481. Moving them legally needs a UN38.3 test summary from the cell manufacturer, a safety data sheet, a dangerous goods declaration, compliant packing and marking, and a booking on a carrier and vessel that accepts DG. Most forwarders quote it and then decline once they see the classification, which is why lithium shipments stall at booking rather than at the factory. **The classification decides everything** Lithium-ion cells and batteries carried on their own are UN3480. The same cells packed with equipment, or installed in it, are UN3481. Lithium-metal equivalents are UN3090 and UN3091. All are Class 9. The classification drives the packing, the marking, the paperwork and which vessels will take the container. Getting it wrong at booking is the usual cause of a shipment sitting at origin. **What the factory has to give you** A UN38.3 test summary for the exact cell, issued by the cell manufacturer or the test house. This is the document that most often does not exist for a cheap cell, and it cannot be produced retrospectively. A safety data sheet, and packing that matches the classification — including the correct marks and labels on each package and the outer carton. A dangerous goods declaration for the shipment. We check these before a booking is made rather than after the container is stuffed. **Why bookings fall through** Not every carrier accepts Class 9 lithium on every service, and DG slots on a vessel are limited. A forwarder without a DG desk will often quote on the assumption the cargo is general, then withdraw. Storage and demurrage build up quickly when a DG shipment is held for paperwork, because the container cannot simply be moved to an ordinary yard. **Sea, not air** Air carriage of lithium cells is tightly restricted and expensive. For cells in commercial quantity, sea freight is the practical route, and it is the only mode we run. **A note on accuracy** Dangerous goods rules are revised on a regular cycle and vary by carrier and by port. Treat the above as orientation, not as a compliance checklist — we confirm the current requirement with the carrier for each shipment before booking. **Q: What is the difference between UN3480 and UN3481?** A: UN3480 covers lithium-ion cells and batteries shipped on their own. UN3481 covers the same cells when they are packed with equipment or already installed in it. Both are Class 9, but the packing, marking and documentation differ. **Q: What is a UN38.3 test summary and do I need one?** A: It is a summary of the transport safety tests a lithium cell must pass, issued by the cell manufacturer or test house. You need it to ship legally, and it has to exist for the specific cell — it is not something a supplier can write for you after the fact. **Q: Can lithium batteries be shipped by sea from China?** A: Yes, as Class 9 dangerous goods on a carrier and service that accepts DG, with the correct declaration, packing and marking. Availability of DG slots is the practical constraint, not legality. ### What does a China sourcing agent cost? *https://www.godocket.ai/answers/china-sourcing-agent-cost · updated 2026-09-19* **Short answer.** Sourcing help is charged in one of three ways: a commission on the factory's invoice, a retainer plus commission, or a markup built into the unit price by a trading company. The first two are visible and checkable; the third is not, and because import duty is charged on the invoice value, a hidden markup costs you the margin plus duty on that margin. Ours is published: 10%/8%/6% by order size, charged on the factory's own invoice, which you pay directly. **The three structures** Commission on the factory invoice. You see the factory's price, you pay the factory, and the agent invoices a stated percentage separately. The number is checkable because you are holding both documents. Retainer plus commission. A monthly fee buys capacity, with a smaller percentage on top. This suits buyers with continuous volume and is poor value for occasional orders. Markup inside the unit price. A trading company quotes you one number and keeps the difference between that and what the factory charged. You never see the factory price, so the margin is unknowable by design. **Why the structure beats the percentage** A stated commission and a hidden markup are not comparable even at the same headline rate, because a markup inflates the declared value of the goods. Import duty is charged on that value, so the margin is taxed as though it were part of the product. The other cost of a bundled price is that you lose the ability to negotiate the part that is actually negotiable. If you cannot see the factory price, you cannot tell whether the saving came out of the factory or out of you. **What to ask before you sign** Is your fee charged on the factory's invoice, or built into the price you quote me? Will you name the factory? Who pays the factory, and into whose account? What is the fee if I reorder the same part next quarter? An agent who will not answer the first two is being paid in a way they would rather you did not price. **What we charge** 10%/8%/6% of the factory invoice by order size, published on the pricing section of our site rather than quoted case by case. The goods money goes straight to the factory's own account. We never hold it — freight, duty and our commission come on a separate invoice from us. Quotes are free, and the minimum order is USD 5,000. We do not hold your money and we do not touch the factory's price, which is the point: a price we never handle is a price we cannot pad. **Q: Do sourcing agents in China charge a percentage or a flat fee?** A: Most charge a percentage commission on the order value; some larger agencies add a monthly retainer, and trading companies take their margin inside the unit price instead of charging a fee at all. Ask which of the three you are being quoted, because the percentages are not comparable across structures. **Q: Should I pay the factory directly or pay the agent?** A: Paying the factory directly keeps the invoice you declare to customs equal to the price you actually paid, and keeps the agent's fee visible and separate. It also means the agent is not holding your money. **Q: Is a sourcing agent cheaper than buying on a marketplace?** A: It depends on whether the marketplace listing is a factory or a reseller, and on how much your own time is worth. A marketplace listing price usually already contains a margin; whether an agent is cheaper comes down to whether they get you to the manufacturer and whether their fee is visible.