Bali Furniture Shipping USA, Door-to-Door

Furniture is billed per cubic metre (CBM), so a carved teak bed and a rattan armchair cost the same to move as any other load of that volume. There is no minimum — LCL starts from 1 CBM — and past roughly 25–28 CBM a 20ft container usually works out cheaper per piece.

Worked example: a teak dining table, six chairs and a sideboard that crate out to about 4 CBM come to roughly 4 × USD 400–550 = USD 1,600–2,200 door-to-door.

Duties, US customs exam fees and any storage are billed at cost on top of the freight bands.

Plan on 6–12 weeks door-to-door by sea: pickup and consolidation in Bali, the crossing (often via a transhipment hub such as Singapore), US arrival, clearance and inland trucking.

West Coast entry through Los Angeles or Long Beach tends to land at the shorter end; East Coast and inland addresses sit nearer 12 weeks. Air is faster, but the volumetric weight of a wardrobe or dining set pushes it to several times the sea rate.

Two dated changes set a USA-bound load apart.

• De minimis is gone for Indonesia. A US Executive Order in August 2025 suspended the exemption, so every commercial shipment — even one crated chair — now incurs duties and formal customs processing.
• Wood furniture is regulated cargo. It falls under the Lacey Act, whose phase VII took effect on 1 December 2024, and TSCA Title VI for formaldehyde in composite wood. Clearance typically needs a CBP entry, an Importer Security Filing (ISF) and a Lacey Act declaration naming the timber species and country of harvest.

The WCO has signalled no Harmonized System overhaul before HS 2027, so furniture tariff codes are stable for now; your broker confirms each classification.

Bali Furniture Shipping is an independent shipping concierge, not a carrier or licensed customs broker. Freight and US clearance are arranged through vetted licensed partners.