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Factory prices, delivered, one number.

Get a delivered price with every line shown. Sign one contract, and receive goods our own people inspected at the factory.

What you get

Buy like the largest importers, without becoming one.

01 / Price

  • See inside the number.

    Goods, freight, duty, entry and delivery, each on its own line.

  • Tariffs already in.

    Every duty and tariff is stacked into the price, line by line.

  • Locked when you sign.

    If freight or tariffs move after that, that's our problem.

A delivered priceUSD

Delivered to Oakland, CA 94607 · one 40-foot container

Cost breakdownAmount
Goods$30,826.95
Tariffs and duties$10,882.66
Ocean freight and delivery$9,464.00
Customs entry$145.32
Your price, delivered$51,318.92

02 / Order

  • One contract.

    One sales confirmation with Donkey Trade Inc. It's the only paper you sign.

  • Any mix in one container.

    Our engine packs the load, and when it needs a bigger box, a second container steps in.

  • Your name on the carton.

    Send the artwork and we proof it with the factory before production starts.

The sales confirmation5 terms

One contract. Every line agreed before you sign.

One delivered priceFixed from signing

03 / Receive

  • Inspected at the factory.

    Our own people check what goes into the box before it ships.

  • One company the whole way.

    Freight, customs and delivery are ours to run.

  • Reorders on a schedule.

    The lines you buy every month can go on a standing order at a held price.

The inspection report5 items

Real orders

More than half of our buyers are already on their second order.

Restaurant supply wholesaler · Southern California

Aluminum containers and trays

Reordered inside a week and added a new tray to the second order.

Foodservice distributor · Oakland

Kraft paper bags

Sent a second PO three weeks after the first, with its own name printed on the carton.

Japanese restaurant supplier · Bay Area

Binchotan and ogatan charcoal

Moved its charcoal onto a six-month standing order.

What we land

We go trade by trade, and we only sell what we know cold.

Restaurant and foodservice supply

Bagasse clamshells, kraft paper bags, aluminum containers and foil, wooden sushi boxes, binchotan and ogatan charcoal.

See the trade

Builders and renovators

Cabinets, flooring, doors, tile, vanities and hardware, packed into one container for the project.

See the trade

New this month

One product family, updated monthly. We'll supply it.

The size of it

A trading house used to be rooms of people. Ours is one engine.

The layer between factory and buyer moves $8 trillion a year, and software never touched it.

25,000+

tariff lines priced

1,800+

tariff notices read

242

live tariff measures, rechecked twice a day

24 hours

to put our own people on any factory floor in China or Southeast Asia

The engine

The engine is what makes you look big.

Three Donkey agents run every order, from the first SKU to the last truck, on one shared memory.

Donkey · EngineZ01 – Z04
Hover a layerDetailed
04The loop
Paid · Shipped · Customs · Fit
03Ops agent
Factory · Freight · Customs · Logistics
02Sales agent
Email · LinkedIn · Closing
01Sourcing agent
SKU research · Selection
01 · Sourcing agent
  • SKU research
  • Selection
Which products we sell

Reads the market for SKUs worth selling, then picks the list.

02 · Sales agent
  • Email
  • LinkedIn
  • Closing deals
Build a container

A buyer's orders, packed until one box is full.

03 · Ops agent
  • Factory
  • Freight · COSCO
  • Customs
  • Logistics
Consolidation

Cargo from several suppliers, packed into one container.

Deconsolidation

One container, split at the port for each buyer.

04 · The loop
  • What the buyer paid
  • How the factory shipped
  • What customs did
  • Whose cargo fits one box
Sharper next price

Each box narrows the spread on the next quote.

Questions

What buyers ask before a first order.

Who can buy from Donkey?

US businesses that buy inventory by the pallet or the container: wholesalers, distributors, builders and multi-unit operators.

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How is Donkey different from an importer or a sourcing agent?

An agent finds you a factory and steps away. An importer sells you what it already bought. Donkey works directly with the factory, shows you every line of the price, inspects the goods before they ship and stays responsible until they're at your dock.

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What if tariffs change after I sign?

Your price doesn't. If costs move under a locked price, that's our problem.

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What's the minimum?

One container, in any mix of products.

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Every question, answered in full