Walmart Supports Door-to-Door Delivery Between China and the U.S.
Walmart’s Ship with Walmart Cross Border supports Chinese sellers shipping to the U.S., offering door-to-door delivery and customs-clearance assistance through carriers including Yanwen and SF Express.
What are the key facts?
- 1Door-to-door delivery from China to the U.S.
- 2Currently listed carriers include Yanwen and SF Express
- 3Carriers may handle customs clearance on behalf of sellers
- 4Sellers must still meet U.S. customs requirements
- 5Sellers must submit product and declaration information
What happened?
Walmart’s official logistics guide states that sellers fulfilling orders from China to the U.S. can participate in the Ship with Walmart Cross Border program. The carriers currently listed for the program include Yanwen and SF Express, which provide door-to-door delivery and customs-clearance assistance for cross-border orders. Sellers fulfilling orders from outside the U.S. must still meet relevant U.S. customs requirements. Carriers may handle customs clearance on the sellers’ behalf, while sellers are primarily responsible for transportation costs. The service is suitable for Chinese sellers that have not yet established U.S. overseas warehouses and want to use platform logistics for direct shipping, particularly for lightweight, standardized products and low-inventory test operations. Customs-clearance assistance from the platform does not exempt sellers from importer, tax, or product-compliance responsibilities. Sellers must still accurately submit information such as the product name, material, country of origin, HS code, and declared value.
What does this mean for cross-border sellers?
Chinese sellers can provide door-to-door delivery to U.S. consumers through Ship with Walmart Cross Border without first establishing a U.S. overseas warehouse, making the service suitable for lightweight, standardized products and low-inventory testing. The platform and carriers may assist with customs clearance, but sellers remain responsible for transportation, import, tax, and product-compliance obligations and must submit accurate declaration information.
What should sellers do now?
- 1This week, enter transportation costs for lightweight, standardized products shipped from China to the U.S. into the profit calculator. Build separate estimates for Yanwen and SF Express and produce gross-margin results for each SKU to support direct-shipping test selection.Profit calculator
- 2This week, create a declaration-document checklist for U.S.-bound direct-shipping listings participating in Ship with Walmart Cross Border. Complete the product name, material, country of origin, HS code, and declared value fields one by one, verify them using the listing character-limit check, and prepare one submission-ready set of materials.Listing character checker
- 3This week, select lightweight and standardized products from the planned low-inventory test items. Record each SKU, direct-shipping route, and declaration-document status in a pre-purchasing checklist to create a China-to-U.S. test-batch list; items with missing information must not enter shipping.Procurement List