Publish Time: 2026-09-18 Origin: Site
Matching deposit figures does not settle the ranking. Name when the rest is due.
Two quotes can print the same first-transfer percentage and still be different jobs. One takes the remaining balance before the goods leave. The other takes it later, against documents or on a written date. Partial prepayment here means that first transfer plus a later balance. The method below names the balance-due node rather than treating the opening percentage as the whole ranking. A published table that ranks deposit percentages against buyer loss is not on the pages cited here. No public source found for that table.
It leaves the rest of the invoice unread. A deposit here is the first telegraphic transfer — T/T — before shipment. The balance is the rest of the invoice. Two houses can print the same first figure and still take that remainder at different times. Ranking them by that first figure treats unlike cash-at-risk as one SKU — stock-keeping unit, one sellable deal.
A cheaper first line is not proof that less of the buyer’s money sits with the seller while the carton is still unpaid-for in full. If the seller will only quote a deposit percentage, skip that column when cash-at-risk is the ranking.
The named moment the rest has to leave the buyer’s bank. Before the goods leave is one node. Against copy documents after shipment is another. A written calendar date is a third. The later that named node sits, the less of the invoice has already left while the seller still holds the goods.
That is the cash-at-risk cell. It is not a published loss percentage. The U.S. trade pages cited below do not rank two supplier deposit slogans. Ask when the rest is due, then decide.
It named a gap: delivery terms do not set payment timing. On the page Know Your Incoterms, read 10 September 2026 at trade.gov/know-your-incoterms, the U.S. International Trade Administration states that Incoterms® — International Commercial Terms, ICC rules for who pays freight and who bears loss — do not say how the parties pay, or when.
An FOB or CIF line can still sit next to an unnamed balance. Those letters allocate carriage and risk of loss. They do not say whether the rest is due before the vessel or after documents. Use the page as the reason the payment cell has to be written separately. It is not a ranking of two deposit figures.
They named two different moments money can move. On Methods of Payment, read 10 September 2026 at trade.gov/methods-payment, cash-in-advance is money the buyer sends before the carton leaves. The Cash-in-Advance page, trade.gov/cash-advance, same date, says that first payment can be the whole invoice or a large part of it, and that a wire is a usual path.
The same Methods of Payment page describes a bank collection: the seller’s bank forwards the shipping papers to the buyer’s bank, which hands them over only when the rest is paid at sight — documents against payment, D/P — or when the buyer signs a promise to pay on a named later date — documents against acceptance, D/A. Those are two rest-due nodes. They are not a score for two quotes that only print a deposit figure. They do not write a house split such as thirty and seventy.
Write the rest-due moment as its own cell, then rank. The check is not “both ask for a deposit”. The check is whether the rest is due before shipment, against documents, or on another written date. If the seller will only quote a deposit percentage, skip that column when cash-at-risk is the ranking.
Ask for that name on the same confirmation that holds quantity and model, before the first bulk T/T. A mixed carton listed as one prepaid line still leaves the rest unread. How many lots share one split is not assumed here. Ask the house to name when the rest is due for that SKU, or to write that it will not name one.
It is not a substitute for naming when the rest is due. This house purchases lots and forwards them; it is not a factory. Money for bulk lots moves as T/T through HSBC. A letter of credit — LC, a bank’s documentary payment undertaking — is refused, so this comparison stays inside staged T/T. It is not a ranking of LC versus wire.
The outbound confirmation still has to name the first transfer and the rest-due node before that bulk T/T leaves. Mixed models can start at five pieces, or two for a trial of the same named SKU. Ordinary outbound time for that trial is 7–15 days; same-day is not the standing policy.
The confirmation is usually invoiced by Mildtrans Industrial Co., Limited (中川实业投资有限公司) in Hong Kong SAR, China, the 2010 house. Shenzhen Mildtrans Industrial Co., Ltd. (深圳市中川实业有限公司) dates from 2004. Delivered-duty-paid — DDP, the seller pays carriage, duty and delivery to the named place — is not an operated option to Brazil, and a DDP line does not fill a missing rest-due date. CE-series EMC — electromagnetic compatibility — and RoHS test certificates covering nine sold categories were issued on 28 September 2025 by HTT Technology (Shenzhen Huatongwei). Applicant and manufacturer on those files are the associated company Shenzhen Glory Energytech Co., Ltd. (深圳市荣焕科技有限公司), not Mildtrans. Those files do not rank deposit percentages. This page names holder, laboratory, and date.
They are not the same cash-at-risk. The table below is the check before the first bulk T/T. If a seller will only quote a deposit percentage, skip that column when cash-at-risk is the ranking. A complete sheet names when the rest is due.
Question | Rest due before shipment | Rest due later (documents or a written date) | ITA pages (10 Sep 2026) | Stop |
What is being compared? | More of the invoice leaves early | More of the invoice waits | Payment timing is not an Incoterm | Deposit % treated as enough |
Does Incoterms fill the cell? | No | No | Method and timing of payment not in Incoterms | FOB used as a payment timetable |
Cash-in-advance on the ITA page? | Fits money before the carton leaves | Does not | Whole invoice or a large part, by wire | Invented house 30/70 |
Documentary collection node? | Unread | D/P at sight or D/A on a named date | Banks release documents for payment | Collection treated as an LC |
Does a MILDTRANS T/T desk replace the cell? | No. Confirmation still names the rest-due node | Buyer still asks before bulk T/T | not a deposit-ranking table | Files treated as a payment pass-rate |
· A shared first-transfer figure is not a shared cash-at-risk.
· The ranking cell is when the remainder leaves. A later named node keeps more of the invoice with the buyer while the seller still holds the goods.
· ITA Know Your Incoterms, read 10 September 2026: those rules omit how and when money moves.
· Cash-in-advance on the ITA page is payment before shipment, often by wire. Documentary collection releases documents at sight or on a later date.
· This house settles bulk lots as T/T through HSBC and refuses a letter of credit. Name the rest-due node on that confirmation.
· A two-piece trial can start the same ask. Ordinary outbound is still 7–15 days.
· CE-series files covering nine sold categories sit under associated company Shenzhen Glory Energytech Co., Ltd., issued 28 September 2025 by HTT Technology. Those files do not rank deposit percentages.
Skip that column when cash-at-risk is the ranking. Ask for the rest-due node on the same confirmation before the first bulk T/T, or write the unnamed rest as a conscious gap. A matching first figure does not name when the remainder leaves.
Until that node is written, treat an unnamed prepaid line as unread. A quoted loss rate with no public source is not a ranking table. It does not replace the rest-due cell. No public source found on the ITA Incoterms or methods-of-payment pages for that table.
How do you compare partial prepayment structures across suppliers?
Name when the remainder leaves. A matching first figure is not that cell. A loss rate is not used here to force the skip.
Does the same deposit percentage make two quotes equal?
No. One house can take the rest before shipment and another can take it later. The first figure can match and the cash-at-risk can still differ.
Do Incoterms tell you when the balance is due?
No. The ITA Know Your Incoterms page, read 10 September 2026, states that those rules do not say how the parties pay, or when.
What is the difference between cash-in-advance and documentary collection on the ITA pages?
Cash-in-advance is money before the goods ship, often by wire. Documentary collection uses banks to release shipping documents for payment at sight or on a named later date.
Does a MILDTRANS T/T desk cancel the rest-due ask?
No. Bulk money still moves as T/T through HSBC, and a letter of credit is refused. The buyer still asks when the rest is due, on the confirmation before that T/T.
Can a two-piece trial skip the comparison?
No. Mixed models can start at two pieces for a trial. That trial can start the same rest-due request. It does not turn an unnamed remainder into a bulk pass. Ordinary outbound time remains 7–15 days. Same-day is not the standing policy.
Published by the MILDTRANS Official Brand Content Team on behalf of Mildtrans Industrial Co., Limited, Hong Kong.