We manufacture tissue, folding cartons, rigid boxes, corrugated mailers and dust bags in Mexico and truck them into the US. Goods qualify duty free under USMCA. Unit cost runs 25 to 45 percent below US domestic converters.
Same time zone as Dallas. A named account manager, not a ticket queue. A plant you can walk through and be home the same night.
Truck freight, not ocean. A stockout becomes a three week fix instead of a lost quarter. No port, no vessel rollover, no 40-day window where nobody can tell you where the goods are.
Paper packaging from China carries roughly 37.5 percent in Section 301 duty. USMCA-qualifying Mexican goods are at zero on physically identical product. Against US domestic suppliers we are purely a cost play, and we say so.
Our plants run on Central time, one hour off LA. Your account manager answers before lunch. Sample rounds run 7 to 10 days instead of 3 weeks. The plants are a two hour flight from most US hubs.
Index below holds the ex-works unit price constant and adds duty, freight, and carrying cost to a landed number. Mexico is set to 100 so the comparison is readable. Your own numbers will differ by substrate, volume, and destination, and we will build the model with your figures during quoting.
| ORIGIN | DUTY | FREIGHT | TRANSIT | CASH OUT | LANDED INDEX |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| China | 37.5% | Ocean | 8-14 wk | 30% at PO | 138 |
| Vietnam | 12.5% | Ocean | 9-14 wk | 30% at PO | 116 |
| Thailand | 12.5% | Ocean | 9-15 wk | 30% at PO | 117 |
| Philippines | 12.5% | Ocean | 10-15 wk | 30% at PO | 118 |
| Mexico (USMCA) | 0% | Truck | 14-30 d | 30% at PO | 100 |
| US domestic | 0% | Truck | 10-25 d | Net 30 | 141 |
Rates shown are Section 301 / IEEPA-era rates applied to paper and paperboard packaging imports. Verify against current HTS schedules at time of order.
A brand ordering $150,000 of packaging from Asia wires a 30% deposit, $45,000, roughly 14 weeks before that packaging can be attached to a product and sold.
With us that same cash is out for about three weeks. Nothing about the packaging changed. The financing cost did. That is the number your CFO is actually asking about.
Production work photographed as it shipped, not renders. Rigid boxes, foil-stamped cartons and sewn dust bags from current client programs.
One PO, one invoice, one trailer. Specs below are production ranges, not marketing. MOQs are per SKU and per artwork. Pricing scales with volume and is quoted against your drawing and substrate.
Printed and unprinted interleaving tissue. Flexo, up to 4 colors, on FSC-certified stock.
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Litho-offset SBS cartons, glued and shipped flat. Straight tuck, reverse tuck, sleeve, mailer style.
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Wrapped greyboard boxes, hand-assembled. Magnetic closure, book style, shoulder-neck, drawer.
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Die-cut ecommerce mailers and shippers. Inside-out print, tear strip, double-adhesive returns.
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Cotton and non-woven bags, sewn in-house. Drawstring, flap, envelope.
Quote this categoryDates below are the committed schedule on a repeat run with approved artwork. First runs add 2 to 4 days for hard proofing. You get the tracking reference at trailer seal.
We run litho, flexo, die-cutting, foil and hand assembly across three plants, each specialized by category. Buyers audit before the first PO. Book a Tuesday, fly in the morning, be home for dinner.
Customs brokerage and USMCA certificates of origin are handled by us, filed before the trailer leaves the yard. You are the importer of record on paper and we do the paperwork.
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Attach a drawing, a dieline, or last year's invoice and we quote against the exact same spec so the comparison is honest. No drawing yet: describe the box and we will draw it.
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