After the ship,
the bill is yours.
FOB Karachi stops at the Pakistan side we named. CIF adds ocean freight and marine insurance at cost. Neither term pays your duty or your inland delivery.
Zarkaar’s price stops where the proforma says it stops. On FOB Karachi, that is the Pakistan load. On CIF, we add ocean freight and marine insurance at cost, and we show those figures separately. Duty, VAT or sales tax, the destination terminal charge, your broker’s fee, and any truck after the discharge port stay with you unless a written line says otherwise.
We do not quote those destination numbers. They move with tariff schedules, with the terminal, and with your broker’s own invoice. A percent frozen on a website would be a false offer by the time you cleared.
Four bills buyers fold into “the price”
Split them on the worksheet before you compare two shippers.
Duty and preference
EU GSP+, UK DCTS, and the China-Pakistan FTA may change duty. They are claims your broker makes. We do not calculate them, and we do not warranty them. Wheat grain is not a duty question because we do not ship it.
VAT and similar taxes
These are assessed in the importing country on a base your broker computes. They are not a line on our FOB invoice. A Gulf retailer who asks us to “absorb VAT” is asking for a different contract. We will not hide it inside the fruit price.
Terminal and broker
Discharge ports we name include Jebel Ali, Jeddah, Dammam, Hamad when the Qatar booking says so, Felixstowe or London, and the arrival airports JFK, LAX, and ORD for USA mango. The terminal invoice and the broker invoice are yours. We are not your importer of record.
Inland after the port
CIF to Jeddah or Dammam is not a delivery in Riyadh or Madinah. CIF to Felixstowe is not a supermarket ramp. USA air arrival is not a truck to a packer in another state. If you need those legs, your forwarder prices them. The Multan-to-Karachi truck is the opposite direction, and it is a separate sentence on the proforma too.
Insurance is not a claims department
When the term is CIF, marine insurance is placed at cost and the certificate travels with the documents. It covers the marine risk the policy names. It is not a promise that a quality claim will be paid. Quality claims follow the 48-hour arrival file. A temperature logger supports that file. It does not, by itself, pay anyone.
Domestic fertiliser, seed, and feed never use this split. Those are rupee sales at the Multan counter.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you quote Saudi duty on basmati?
Does CIF deliver to Riyadh?
Will you put VAT inside the carton price?
Is the Multan truck a destination charge?
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