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1,[e("table",null,[e("thead",null,[e("tr",null,[e("th",null,"Scenario"),e("th",null,"Recommended"),e("th",null,"Why")])]),e("tbody",null,[e("tr",null,[e("th",null,"E-commerce order to a consumer"),e("td",null,"DDP"),e("td",null," A consumer confronted with a â¬23 customs invoice refuses or churns. Bake landed cost into your price. ")]),e("tr",null,[e("th",null," Sample from your factory to your office "),e("td",null,"DAP (or DDP billed to you)"),e("td",null," You are the importer either way; what matters is that duties bill to your account, not the factory's. ")]),e("tr",null,[e("th",null,"Sample to a business customer"),e("td",null,"DDP"),e("td",null," You are selling; make receiving effortless. ")]),e("tr",null,[e("th",null," B2B replenishment to a distributor "),e("td",null,"DAP"),e("td",null," The distributor is the importer of record and typically reclaims import VAT. ")]),e("tr",null,[e("th",null," Gift or merchandise to a recipient "),e("td",null,"DDP"),e("td",null," Never make a gift recipient pay to receive it. ")])])])],-1)),t[6]||(t[6]=e("h2",null," The catch: DDP requires carrier setup, not just a checkbox ",-1)),t[7]||(t[7]=e("p",null," Selecting DDP on a label does nothing by itself. Each carrier implements duty billing differently: ",-1)),t[8]||(t[8]=e("ul",null,[e("li",null,[e("strong",null,"DHL Express"),l(" requires a duties & taxes billing account "),e("strong",null,"and"),l(" the DTP service on the shipment. One without the other silently falls back to receiver-pays. ")]),e("li",null,[e("strong",null,"UPS"),l(" bills duties to a third party via Bill Third Party fields with account number, postal code and country, and the account must be configured for it. ")]),e("li",null,[e("strong",null,"FedEx"),l(" uses a duties payment type (SENDER, RECIPIENT, THIRD_PARTY); integrations that hardcode SENDER quietly break DAP shipments by billing the shipper for duties the receiver owes. ")])],-1)),t[9]||(t[9]=e("p",null,[l(" Full per-carrier walkthrough: "),e("a",{href:"/guides/third-party-billing-dhl-ups-fedex"},"Third-party duty billing on DHL, UPS and FedEx"),l(". ")],-1)),t[10]||(t[10]=e("h2",null,"What DDP actually costs",-1)),t[11]||(t[11]=e("p",null,[l(" The duties are the same under both terms; DDP just moves them to you, plus the carrier's clearance fee. Example: â¬400 of apparel samples from Istanbul to Amsterdam. Import duty at 12% is â¬48, Dutch import VAT at 21% over goods plus duty â â¬94, clearance fee â â¬15. DDP costs you ~â¬157; DAP shifts that â¬157 plus friction to the receiver. Estimate any lane with our "),e("a",{href:"/tools/landed-cost-calculator"},"landed cost calculator"),l(". ")],-1)),t[12]||(t[12]=e("h2",null,"How Sendman handles it",-1)),t[13]||(t[13]=e("p",null," You set the incoterm once per flow; Sendman resolves who pays and maps it to each carrier's specific fields automatically (DTP service on DHL, third-party billing on UPS, the correct payor type on FedEx). The landed cost estimate is shown before the shipment is approved, so DDP never surprises your finance team either. ",-1)),r(u,{items:a})]),_:1})])]),r(d,{schema:n})]),_:1}))}});export{I as default};
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