Mixed-SKU US Retailer Container
Release each supplier lot before its packages go on the invoice for one mixed-SKU container a US retailer will receive at its DC.
Buyer type: Readers planning a mixed-SKU container for a US retailer
Category: US retail import
Services used: Not applicable: editorial worksheet
A mixed-SKU container fails at a US retailer when a held supplier lot is already on the invoice. Release each lot, then copy only the released package IDs, quantities, and weights onto that invoice.
A mixed-SKU container for a US retailer is ready to load when every package on the invoice belongs to a lot you have released. 19 CFR 141.86(e) (eCFR text, October 1, 2026) requires the invoice to state what merchandise is in each package. 19 CFR 134.11 requires the article or its container to show the English country of origin to an ultimate purchaser in the United States, unless the law excepts that article. 19 CFR 134.41(b) requires that mark to survive store handling and to be readable without strain. A Hapag-Lloyd 40-foot general purpose row (booklet PDF modified February 17, 2020) prints 67.7 m³, 28,800 kg maximum payload, and 32,500 kg maximum gross. Claims about six suppliers, two thinner-material SKUs, completed rework, and an on-time sailing stay withdrawn. Copy a blank row from your own order.
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| Input or item | Value on the public page | Why the file needs it |
|---|---|---|
| What each package contains | 19 CFR 141.86(e): adequate detail on the invoice | A held package stays off that statement |
| Marks and numbers of the packages | 19 CFR 141.86(a)(3) | The invoice carries the same marks you checked |
| Quantities | 19 CFR 141.86(a)(4): weights and measures of the shipping place or of the United States | The unit has to be one of those two |
| Country of origin on the invoice | 19 CFR 141.86(a)(10) | The invoice line and the mark on the goods are separate checks |
| Origin mark | 19 CFR 134.11 and 134.41(b): English name, readable without strain after normal distribution and store handling, unless the law excepts the article | A mark that fails that test keeps the lot on hold |
| 40-foot series cube | 67.7 m³, inside 12,032 mm × 2,352 mm × 2,395 mm (Hapag-Lloyd booklet, PDF modified February 17, 2020) | Compare your measured cube with this printed row |
| Same row mass | Tare 3,700 kg + maximum payload 28,800 kg = maximum gross 32,500 kg | Released mass stays at or under 28,800 kg on that row |
| Earlier story on this URL | Six suppliers, two thinner-material SKUs, completed rework, and an on-time sailing: withdrawn | Those lines are not inputs |
What the lot row records
Copy one row per supplier lot. Blank cells wait for your purchase order and the person who approves release. This case-study index holds the same kind of recording sheet for other files. The supplier cell stays blank until you write the name your contract uses. A registry check, when you still need one, sits in how to verify a Chinese supplier. This page does not describe a company-registry screen.
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| Field | What you copy |
|---|---|
| PO, SKU, lot, supplier | From your order. Leave the supplier blank if the contract has no name yet. |
| Approved spec version | The sample or drawing the check uses |
| Arrival | Date, package count from your receiving record, condition, location |
| Result and evidence ID | Pass, hold, or further checks, plus the photo or report ID |
| Origin mark | English country name present, or the exception you are relying on |
| Decision | Hold / release / further checks |
| Approver and date | The person authorized to accept the lot |
| Released package IDs | Separate from packages still on hold |
Warehouse arrival is a record of receipt. It is acceptance only after the approver’s row says release.
One failure mode per handoff
The dominant failure mode is a package that moves forward while its lot is still on hold. Prevention is the same row: no invoice line until the decision says release.
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| Handoff | Dominant failure mode | Prevention |
|---|---|---|
| Invoice package line | A held lot is copied onto the invoice, so the package statement no longer matches the loaded cargo | Copy package IDs only from rows marked release |
| Origin mark | The English country name is missing, or it will not survive store handling and still be readable without strain | Hold the lot until the article or its container meets 19 CFR 134.11 and 134.41(b), or you have named the legal exception |
| Ultimate purchaser | The retail DC is treated as the only reader of the mark, and the unit itself is blank | 19 CFR 134.11 addresses an ultimate purchaser in the United States. If that person is the consumer, the article carries the mark unless the law excepts it |
| Cube and mass | Released cargo exceeds the printed capacity or payload of the booked series | Compare measured cube with 67.7 m³ and measured mass with 28,800 kg on the row cited above |
| Invoice language | The package detail is not in English and has no accurate English translation | Attach the translation 19 CFR 141.86(d) requires |
Compare the load with the booked series
Rule of thumb: If the measured cube of released packages exceeds 67.7 m³, or their measured mass exceeds 28,800 kg, keep the excess off that Hapag-Lloyd 40-foot general purpose wooden-floor series. The booklet prints both limits on the row whose inside dimensions are 12,032 mm by 2,352 mm by 2,395 mm. The same booklet says those dimensions are nominal, a measurement can differ by up to 10 mm, and the series shown are a sample of the fleet. A second block on that page lists inside dimensions 12,029 mm by 2,350 mm by 2,392 mm, tare 3,780 kg, maximum payload 26,700 kg, and maximum gross 30,480 kg. Use the series on your booking.
Formula: Maximum gross = tare + maximum payload.
Worked example. These three figures are the printed row, not a weighed shipment. Tare 3,700 kg + maximum payload 28,800 kg = 32,500 kg maximum gross. Released packages have to stay at or under 28,800 kg for that row. This page has no package weight and no carton count.
Formula: Rectangular product (m³) = inside length × inside width × inside height, with each side in meters.
Worked example. 12.032 × 2.352 = 28.299264. Then 28.299264 × 2.395 = 67.777 m³. The booklet prints capacity as 67.7 m³ on that row. Compare your measured cube of released packages with 67.7 m³. This page does not supply that measured cube.
The booklet also prints minimum internal dimensions for a 40-foot box, attributed to ISO 668: length 12,029 mm, width 2,350 mm, and height 2,350 mm for the 8 ft 6 in size. Those are minimums in that table, not the 12,032 mm by 2,352 mm by 2,395 mm nominal row, and not a promise that every box in the fleet matches either set. The booklet says road and rail limits are individual and tells you to ask the local Hapag-Lloyd office. Do not treat 32,500 kg as a truck or rail clearance.
Build the invoice from released packages
19 CFR 141.86(a)(3) asks for a detailed description, the grade or quality, and the marks and numbers of the packages. 19 CFR 141.86(a)(4) asks for quantities in the weights and measures of the place of shipment or of the United States. 19 CFR 141.86(e) asks what merchandise is in each individual package. 19 CFR 141.86(a)(10) asks for the country of origin. Build those lines from released package IDs only.
19 CFR 141.86(a)(8) requires charges on the merchandise, itemized by name and amount, including freight, insurance, commission, cases, containers, coverings, and the cost of packing. The cost of packing, cases, containers, and inland freight to the port of exportation need not be itemized by amount when those costs are included in the invoice price and identified as included. How those lines become a landed cost is in how to calculate landed cost. This file does not carry a freight rate, a duty figure, or a container price.
The sequence for freezing the product specification before the factory packs is in how to source products from China.
When this file does not apply
19 CFR 134.11 applies to an article of foreign origin imported into the Customs territory of the United States, unless the law excepts it. A transfer that never enters that territory uses the mark and invoice rules of its destination, which this page does not state.
The 67.7 m³ and 28,800 kg figures apply to the wooden-floor 8 ft 6 in general purpose row cited above. A high cube, a 20-foot box, a reefer, or another carrier’s series has its own printed row. Read that row before you load.
Method and sources
Updated October 2026. Wholesale Sourced is an independent publisher. This worksheet is a recording method. It is not a customer shipment and not an audit.
Public pages read on October 18, 2026:
- eCFR, 19 CFR 141.86, “Contents of invoices and general requirements,” enhanced text for October 1, 2026. Used for the package statement, marks and numbers, quantities, itemized charges, country of origin, and the English-language rule.
- eCFR, 19 CFR 134.11, “Country of origin marking required,” enhanced text for October 1, 2026. Used for the English country name on the article or its container, and for containers of articles excepted from marking.
- eCFR, 19 CFR 134.41, “Methods and manner of marking,” enhanced text for October 1, 2026. Used for the mark surviving normal distribution and store handling and remaining readable without strain.
- Hapag-Lloyd, “Container Specification” booklet, PDF modification date February 17, 2020. Used for the ISO 668 minimum-internal table as printed there, the 10 mm tolerance, the sample-of-fleet limit, the road and rail note, and the 40-foot general purpose wooden-floor figures: inside 12,032 mm × 2,352 mm × 2,395 mm, capacity 67.7 m³, tare 3,700 kg, maximum payload 28,800 kg, maximum gross 32,500 kg, plus the second block at 12,029 mm × 2,350 mm × 2,392 mm, tare 3,780 kg, maximum payload 26,700 kg, maximum gross 30,480 kg.
Library search returned packaging-machinery pages, which are not sources for this invoice or container file. Cached search for this topic had no stored result, so no new search-result set was purchased. No company-registry or customs-credit screen is described here.