Plastic Carrier: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $1.86 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.064 at volume, on a typical 35-day lead time. These medians come from published supplier pricing. Treat them as a starting point for a sourcing conversation rather than a binding quote.
Median price by order quantity
| Order size | Median /unit |
|---|---|
| 500–999 units | $1.86 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $1.14 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $0.44 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $0.226 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $0.102 |
| 100,000+ units | $0.064 |
What moves the price
For plastic carrier, the drivers are jug count, handle reinforcement, reusability, sanitation resistance, regional compliance, carton count, board grade, moisture resistance — the same item can land at either end of the band depending on how those are specified.
Published wholesale/import listings for plastic carriers and similar molded plastic containers show strong price sensitivity to resin choice, custom printing, and specialty performance features such as anti-static additives, wall thickness, and load rating. For automotive part carriers specifically, the most realistic routes are direct OEM/ODM quotes from China-facing industrial plastics suppliers and returnable packaging vendors; US distributors more often publish container pricing than true part-carrier pricing, so landed-equivalent import pricing is the closest public benchmark. Prices drop materially at higher MOQs because tooling amortization and setup costs are spread over more units, and custom features like ESD, venting, and spill containment generally push the unit price toward the top of each band.
Paying more than the median?
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