Export compliance, written down before you order.
Enterprise drones sit inside China's dual-use export control regime, and most buyers only find out at the port. This page states — per platform — what class the goods fall into, what documents the forwarder will need, and which markets we will not ship to. It is the same information we put in your quotation.
Four platforms, two regimes
| Platform | Thermal / special payload | Classification | What the buyer provides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mavic 4 Pro | No — Hasselblad RGB only | No licence · standard customs declaration | Company details, end-use statement |
| Matrice 4E | No — survey rangefinder laser only | No licence · standard customs declaration | Company details, end-use statement |
| Matrice 4T | Yes — 640×512 radiometric thermal + NIR | Controlled item · export licence required | Licence, end-user statement, application description |
| Matrice 400 (airframe) | No — bare airframe | No licence · standard customs declaration | Company details, end-use statement |
| Matrice 400 + H30T | Yes — 1280×1024 thermal gimbal | Controlled item · export licence required | Licence, end-user statement, application description |
What we need from you
Company registration
Business licence or equivalent, showing the legal entity that will import. We invoice the same entity — no third-party payers on controlled items.
End-user statement
Who operates the aircraft, where it will be based, and confirmation that it is not for military or law-enforcement use.
Application description
One paragraph is usually enough: mapping, inspection, agricultural survey, media. We quote it verbatim into the application.
For controlled builds we also need the import licence (or proof that your entity has applied) before goods leave the warehouse. Lead time extends by the licensing window — that is a queue at the regulator, not a delay we can absorb.
How the goods actually move
- Formal cargo only. Declared, documented, invoiced. No express, no mail, no courier on controlled items.
- No hand-carry. Carrying controlled goods in luggage is explicitly covered by Chinese export control rules.
- No disassembly or re-labelling. Splitting an airframe from its payload to change the declared description is a violation, not a workaround.
- No third-country transhipment tricks. If the final destination is restricted, routing through a free zone does not change that.
Where we will not ship
United States, Canada and India — import restrictions on Chinese-made unmanned aircraft make reliable delivery impossible. We decline these destinations rather than take a deposit and fail at customs. Other destinations are screened per order against the current control lists.
Send the requirement, get the classification.
Destination country and end use in the first message is enough for us to tell you whether the build is quotable at all.
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