Zero client imports at international prices

We want to import a zero-client device with an international price of 200 dollars in 200 numbers from China
Via flight, which takes about a month to transport and clearance, so the following steps must be taken:
First, we should negotiate with the manufacturer and introduce ourselves as a seller so that we can purchase at the agent’s price.
That is 30% below the official price, but since the sellers consider themselves obliged to comply with the sales policy.

And in order to determine whether you are a colleague or a consumer, they will check your history such as your website and sales record of other products
and almost all reputable brands have official sales representatives in Iran, it is rare that they go under the burden of direct sales
but in short, it has not been observed that a consumer can buy more than 10% below the official price, even in large sizes.
Therefore, assuming that we succeed in this case, we can buy 200 devices up to 10% below the global price.

Transfer money to the manufacturer’s account

Transferring money to the manufacturer’s account, at this stage we must deposit 200*200-10 percent – a total of 36 dollars – to the manufacturer’s account
keep in mind that the dollar price that we reach through the internet is the dollar price announced by the central bank.
And it cannot be obtained (it has special conditions and usually there is no access to it regarding the products import), so we have to ask its price from the currency exchange.

But that’s not the whole story, the dollars price that you want to transfer to foreign accounts is on average 3% more expensive than cash dollars.
which is called remittance dollar which is 3% more expensive than cash dollar. For example, at the time of writing this article, the dollar price announced by the Central Bank is 3240 Tomans
while the dollar price of the exchange is 3,780 Tomans (cash or so-called cash dollars), but the price of the remittance dollar is 3,900 Tomans, so we have to transfer 140,400,000 Tomans abroad,

regardless of the risk of doing this (frauds in this field), we have to pay a fee to the Iranian currency exchange
And a fee to a foreign exchange is about 2 million Tomans in total, so this money transfer is costly
If you want to do this in a safe and risk-free way, you should transfer money through banks, which includes at least 5% fee
Therefore, most importers do this through reliable exchanges. Then so far, we have reached the amount of 142,400,000.

The third step is the shipping cost, which the highest shipping cost is related to international shipping.
Such as DHL, TNT, and Aramex, which are not affordable at all and usually none of the importers use their service.
And they import through air freight companies, the cost of air cargo is calculated according to the size and weight of the products, which is called volumetric weight. And on average, for 200 zero clients with average dimensions, it will cost 600 $ equivalent to 2,340,000 tomans so far, we have reached the amount of 144,740,000.

The next important step is obtaining the necessary license.

For goods clearance, you need to have a business card which has a complicated process
but they often use chartered traders, and illegally import cargo through them.
In addition to the work (merchant) clearance, you must have the information technology license and Iran’s standard certificate for the product in order to obtain the zero client clearance.

Obtaining these two certificates leads to the loss of one device as a sample for the governor’s office (irrevocable) and several samples for the information technology organization (retrievable after a few months),
These two licenses cost about 2.5 million tomans, and on average, the work clearance for the provided services requires 3 million tomans for this amount of work. So, we have reached the amount of 150,240,000 Tomans for 199 devices.

After obtaining the necessary license, the products will be transferred to the customs assessment expert (appraiser) for price evaluation in order to calculate taxes and duties.
The criterion of the appraiser’s action in assessing the amount of the goods is its value on foreign and interior websites, so the number that the appraiser considers as the product value,

Is its consumer price that is 200 dollars, so all customs duties and taxes are calculated according to this number.
which is the average of 100 thousand tomans for every 100 dollars or about 2.5% of the cargo value (assessed by the appraiser) for customs duties and taxes,
That is, for this shipping with a value of 40,000 dollars, the amount of 3,700,000 is calculated as customs duties and taxes and must be paid at the customs.
So far, we have reached 154 million tomans for 199 devices.

customs exit

The next step is the goods departure from the customs, at this stage considering that the cargo has been in the customs warehouse for about a month.
It is subject to the cost of warehouse, which costs approximately 700 thousand tomans for this amount.
In short, we have paid 154,640,000 Tomans for 199 devices, which means approximately 777 Tomans for each device, which you should also consider the following as expenses:
One month of money stagnation, high risk of work, illegality of work (the fact that the consumer himself does not have a business card with a related field) can be examples of goods smuggling.
and if found out, will result in a very heavy fine and even more than the value of the cargo.

The failure rate of zero clients is about 3% in two years (for valid and original brands), and it is not cost-effective for the consumer to send and import broken devices to China.
200 is a lot for one consumer, and many of these expenses are fixed for each load of any size (such as license costs).
considering all these cases, it should be noted that the price specified by the Iranian seller for this product is less than what was calculated for the direct buyer from China!
And that is because the importer has a related business card (every businessman has a card that authorizes his activity and that is for several groups of goods, in other words, every businessman is not allowed to import goods).

The process of obtaining permits and imports is much easier for him, because in many cases he can use the records of his past official purchases, which are called pates.
The importer purchase size is more than that of a consumer, and the clearance process for an experienced importer is much shorter than that of a consumer.