Import Smarter With a Fully Managed Supply Chain Partner
From sourcing and factory vetting to QC, freight, tariffs, and ongoing cost optimization, Importivity manages your product from spec to landed inventory. You get one accountable partner instead of a dozen moving parts.
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Whether your product already exists or has to be engineered from scratch, we run the entire import as one managed program built around what you're actually trying to build.
Off-The-Shelf & White-Label
For products that already exist and need white-labeling, rebranding, or light modification. We take the product you've found, or find the right one for you, and run sourcing, QC, freight, and import as one managed program.
- Factory vetting and negotiation handled for you
- Quality control built into every run
- Freight, duties, and to-door logistics managed end to end
- One accountable partner from sample to shelf
- Book a meeting to scope your program
Custom Projects
For custom-developed or custom-engineered products. Priced after a discovery meeting and delivered as a single fully-loaded quote. One unit price, every cost between the factory and your door accounted for.
- Unit price
- Quality control
- Freight & shipping
- Duties & tariffs
- All to-door costs
- = Your landed cost
Additional Services
Charged separately, at published rates, only when a project actually requires them.
- Prototyping: from $5,000 to a production-ready golden sample
- Design: $80/hour
- Engineering: $100-$120/hour
- Billed only when required
- Scope agreed in writing first
Built around your product, not a price sheet.
Every program is scoped to what you're building. To take on a new program we look for a $50,000 initial order and $150,000 in annual volume. Below that, we'll tell you honestly on the consultation whether Importivity is the right partner, or whether you'd be better served running the first order direct and engaging us once volume justifies the model.
Off-The-Shelf & White-Label
For products that already exist and need white-labeling, rebranding, or light modification. We take the product you've found, or find the right one for you, and run sourcing, QC, freight, and import as one managed program.
Custom Projects
For custom-developed or custom-engineered products. Priced after a discovery meeting and delivered as a single fully-loaded quote. One unit price, every cost between the factory and your door accounted for.
Everything set in writing before you commit
Your program, your quote, your deposit, and any expected additional services are documented in your engagement before any work begins. The number you sign is the number you pay.
Deposits applied, not consumed
Sample deposits cover real costs: factory shortlisting, vetting, negotiations, contracts, raw material acquisition, sampling, iteration oversight, and sample delivery. Any unused balance applies to the final payment of your first PO.
A partnership that compounds
The longer we ship together, the more we save you through sharper negotiation, smarter freight, and proactive tariff strategy. The relationship gets more valuable the more you trust us with.
Additional services scoped per project
Prototyping, design, and engineering are handled as separate engagements. Scope and ceiling are agreed before work starts. No mystery hours, no surprise invoices.
The three things we charge for separately. Published rates.
Some projects need prototyping work, industrial design, or engineering input before they are ready to manufacture. When they do, you see the rate up front. When they do not, you do not pay it.
Prototyping: From $5,000
Fixed-rate fee covering everything required to reach a production-ready golden sample. Scales with product cost and the scope of work involved. Quoted at the close of the discovery meeting so you know the number before any prototyping begins.
Design: $80/hour
Industrial design, packaging design, and revision work coordinated with the factory. Estimated hours and ceiling agreed before work begins. You see the running tally, not a surprise bill at the end.
Engineering: $100 to $120/hour
Mechanical, materials, and manufacturing engineering. Range reflects the seniority of the engineer assigned to the work. Hourly rate confirmed and ceiling set before any engineering hours are logged against your project.
Everything that happens between your spec and your shelf.
Finding a factory is the easy part. The work that protects your margin, your IP, your launch timeline, and your shipments happens across six phases of the import process, and we own all of it. Prototyping, design, and engineering are the only services handled as separate engagements, at the published rates above.
Strategy & Sourcing
Sourcing strategy
We map the right country, region, and supplier category for your product. Decisions about China-direct, plus-one diversification, or nearshoring get made up front, not after a launch goes sideways.
Manufacturer vetting
We qualify factories from our network of 1,000+ vetted partners. Capability audits, financial stability checks, compliance history, and capacity validation, before your product touches their floor.
Cost benchmarking
We surface real comparative quotes across qualified factories so you understand where the market actually sits, not just where your first quote landed.
Supply chain mapping
We trace upstream component and material flows so you know where the real bottlenecks and risks live, including tier-2 and tier-3 supplier exposure.
Development & Sampling
Sample procurement
We manage the sample cycle until quality, fit, and finish match the production standard you will accept. Multiple iterations, factory pushback, and timeline pressure all handled by our team. Sampling costs sit inside your deposit.
Golden sample lock
Once a sample passes, we lock it as the QC reference for every production run that follows. Your standard is documented and enforceable, not subject to factory drift.
Tooling and mold oversight
For custom products we oversee tooling specification, ownership terms, validation, and lifecycle management so your tooling investment stays protected and your tooling sits where it should.
Prototyping coordination
When a product needs prototyping work to reach a manufacturable spec, that work runs as a separately quoted fixed-rate engagement (starting at $5,000). You see the number before we start.
Contracts & IP
Manufacturer agreements
NDAs, MOQs, payment terms, tooling ownership, exclusivity, and quality clauses. Written by people who have signed thousands of these and seen what goes wrong when they are not.
IP protection structuring
Supplier IP clauses, trademark registration support in production countries, and tooling ownership structured so your factory cannot turn around and sell your product to a competitor.
Non-circumvention coverage
Mutual non-circumvention frames protect the supplier relationship we developed, the pricing leverage that comes with it, and your ability to operate without supplier end-runs.
Payment term negotiation
We negotiate deposit, milestone, and final payment terms with the factory on your behalf so your cash exposure is structured around production milestones, not blank-check prepayments.
Production & QC
Production monitoring
We track production against the agreed timeline and flag slippage early. Materials sourcing, labor allocation, and line scheduling, monitored by our team on the ground.
Inline inspection
Inspection during production catches defects before they become container loads. AQL sampling protocols and defect classification, run by people who do this every week.
Pre-shipment inspection
Final inspection against the golden sample before goods leave the factory. Issues identified here trigger rework rather than returns.
On-the-ground oversight
Our Asia operations team travels to Qingdao, Shenzhen, and other manufacturing hubs to oversee critical production runs in person. The factory knows we are watching.
Logistics & Import
Freight coordination
We negotiate with freight forwarders, consolidate shipments where possible, and surface real landed-cost comparisons across ports, carriers, and shipping modes.
Customs and clearance
HTS classification, documentation, and customs broker coordination so your goods clear cleanly. Errors here cost weeks and dollars; we run the playbook that avoids both.
Tariff strategy
HTS classification review, country-of-origin engineering, free-trade-zone evaluation, and First Sale rule structuring where applicable. Tariff policy moves; we track it daily and act before it hits your P&L.
Importer of record support
Whether you act as importer of record or we structure the program differently, we make sure the customs posture, documentation, and regulatory filings are right for your situation.
Optimization & Resilience
Plus-one supply development
Single-supplier dependence is a business risk. We develop a qualified secondary factory in a different region so a quality issue, port closure, or geopolitical event does not stop your shipments.
Pricing renegotiation
Manufacturers raise prices. Constantly. Materials, labor, tariffs, FX, all become reasons. We push back on every increase with data, comparable quotes, and the leverage of moving volume elsewhere.
Continuous cost engineering
Every quarter we review your bill of materials, supplier performance, and freight spend for further savings. Optimization is not a project. It is the relationship.
Market intelligence
Tariff shifts, factory capacity changes, raw material trends, and competitive sourcing intelligence. We surface what matters to your program before it shows up on your dock.
A supply partner. Not a one-time consultant.
Most of our clients have been with us for years across multiple product programs. The model is built for that. The more you trust us with, the more we earn it back in price negotiation, freight savings, tariff strategy, and supply resilience.
Program set in writing
Before any work starts, your engagement names your program, what your quote covers, what your deposit is, and what additional services we expect the project to need. No retainers running while we figure out scope.
Deposits go toward your order
Sample deposits are not a fee. They cover hard costs through sample delivery. Anything left over applies to the final payment of your first PO. For tooling-heavy products we recommend factory visits and deeper due diligence before significant tooling deposits.
A relationship that pays you back
The value grows the longer we work together, with sharper negotiations, better freight lanes, and tariff strategy that protects your P&L before problems reach your dock.
Outcomes you can verify
The average Importivity client saves 31% on landed cost. We'll show you the comparison against your current supplier or competing quotes before you commit to anything.
The choice is not where to source. It is who runs the import.
Most importers operate one of three ways. We built Importivity to be the third.
Direct Sourcing
- What you get: A factory contact. From there, sampling, QC, contracts, freight, and customs are entirely on you.
- What it costs you: Every hour you spend running the import is an hour off your business. Mistakes get expensive fast.
- Oversight: You see only what the factory tells you, with no independent eyes on quality or cost.
- Quality control: You hire an inspection firm separately, manage the protocol, and decide what to do when a report comes back bad.
- Tariff and customs strategy: Your responsibility. Classification mistakes, missed mitigation, and policy changes hit your P&L directly.
- Ongoing support: Every new product, run, and renegotiation starts from scratch.
Project-Based Agencies
- What you get: A supplier introduction, plus maybe a few rounds of help. Then the relationship is yours to manage alone.
- What it costs you: A flat fee to find a supplier, then you pay again for every new project, with little accountability after.
- Oversight: Involvement usually ends once the introduction is made.
- Quality control: Often added on as a separate service, separately invoiced. Inline inspection is rare.
- Tariff and customs strategy: Typically out of scope. You hire a customs broker separately and hope the agency got the classification right.
- Ongoing support: After the fee is collected, your outcome is largely on you. Price increases, supplier issues, and tariff changes are yours to handle.
Importivity
- What you get: A managed import program. One partner from spec through landed product, then continuing across every PO that follows.
- What it costs you: One accountable partner instead of a stack of vendors, with prototyping, design, and engineering scoped separately only when needed.
- Oversight: Our team is in Asia and on factory floors, watching your production in person.
- Quality control: Inline, pre-shipment, and on-the-ground inspection included in your program.
- Tariff and customs strategy: Classification, country-of-origin engineering, free-trade-zone evaluation, and First Sale structuring as part of your program.
- Ongoing support: Continuous. Renegotiations, plus-one development, quarterly reviews, and market intelligence built into the program.
Our clients build real businesses.
Three of them, public. Many more under NDA.
From the first sample to the final container, Importivity ran a process I could actually see, and stay in control of the whole way through.
They negotiated three rounds of price increases away before they ever hit my invoice. That alone is worth the partnership.
Got us from rough prototype to a launch-ready product without ever feeling like we lost control of the IP or the timeline.
Answers most agencies will not give you.
One call. One partner. Everything handled.
Book a call and we'll map your program in one conversation, from sourcing strategy through landed inventory.