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Water Activated Tape: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $0.68 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.22 at volume, on a typical 30-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 | $0.68 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $0.54 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $0.41 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $0.34 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $0.28 |
| 100,000+ units | $0.22 |
What moves the price
For water activated tape, the drivers are roll width, gauge, adhesion, core size — the same item can land at either end of the band depending on how those are specified.
For mid-range custom-printed water-activated paper tape, price is mainly driven by roll width/length, reinforcement or basis weight, print complexity, and whether you buy stock goods, OEM factory direct, or a North American distributor program. Published US-facing distributor pricing for reinforced rolls commonly lands around roughly $8 to $13 per roll at case quantities, while factory-marketplace quotes show much lower landed-equivalent prices at larger MOQs, especially for plain or lightly customized tape. The most realistic routes are US distributors for small-to-mid buys and China/OEM direct for 5,000+ units, but custom print setup and shipping can move effective unit cost materially.
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