China to Vietnam Freight Forwarding

Manufacturers building or expanding production in Vietnam need what Chinese suppliers make: machinery and complete production lines, moulds and tooling, fabrics, yarn and trims for garment and footwear factories, and the components that feed electronics and machinery assembly. This lane carries those factory inputs. The fastest route to northern Vietnam is by road — Foshan to Hanoi takes 2-4 days by truck through the Youyiguan (Friendship Pass) crossing into Lang Son, or through Dongxing into Mong Cai — and it serves the industrial zones around Hanoi, Bac Ninh and Hai Phong. Southern factories in Ho Chi Minh City (including the Binh Duong area) and Dong Nai are usually better served by sea from Nansha or Shekou. We present this lane for what it is: the supply side of real production moving to Vietnam. It is not a way around US tariffs on Chinese goods, and we do not offer it as one.

Last reviewed: October 2026

Offices and representative on this lane:Foshan, China

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AGF Advantage on This Lane

This is the one Vietnam lane where AGF has its own office at origin. Our Foshan team works with your Chinese suppliers directly — collection, consolidation of several suppliers into one truck or container, loading supervision, export customs and the Form E certificate of origin that Vietnamese customs needs for China–ASEAN preferential duty. In Vietnam we work through WCA partner agents, who handle the import declaration, duty-exemption paperwork for export-processing and investment projects, and delivery to the factory gate; AGF has no office in Vietnam. Because we also run the Vietnam to USA lane, we can say plainly where the origin lines fall: inputs for genuine manufacturing are routine, while cabinet and furniture components shipped to be finished in Vietnam and sold to the US as Vietnamese are exactly what the China antidumping orders on wooden cabinets reach — we decline that cargo.

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