Colgate Carton Size: 48 Tubes, and What That Means for Your Container
Ask a toothpaste supplier for a price and you get a number per tube. Ask for the Colgate carton size and you get the number that actually drives your landed cost, because toothpaste fills a container by volume long before it troubles a weight limit.
Here are the figures we ship to, and the planning that follows from them.
Key Takeaways
- 48 tubes per carton across the Colgate lines we carry.
- HS code 33061010, Vietnam origin, Vietnamese label text.
- Toothpaste fills by volume, so carton count per pallet governs cost per unit.
- Cartons are light and crush easily, which makes stack discipline a real cost factor.
Import Colgate wholesale from Vietnam
Asia Grocery Co., Ltd. exports Colgate and 160+ other FMCG brands to 50+ countries since 2010. Mix brands and categories in one container.
What is the carton configuration?
48 units per carton, consistently across the lines we stock:
| Line | SKU | Units per carton |
|---|---|---|
| Colgate Optic White Purple 100g | PC04010090630 | 48 |
| Colgate Optic White Volcanic Mineral 100g | PC04010090629 | 48 |
| Colgate Optic White Exfoliating Mineral 100g | PC04010090628 | 48 |
| Colgate Himalayan Salt Whitening 180g | PC04010090631 | 48 |
The useful thing about a constant carton count is that your pallet arithmetic doesn’t change when you swap variants. Order four lines or one and the cartons stack identically, which makes a mixed Colgate order genuinely simple to plan, unlike categories where every pack size carries a different count.
What does change is tube size. A carton of 48 at 180g occupies more space than a carton of 48 at 100g, so confirm the pack size along with the count when you’re modelling container fill.
Why does volume matter more than weight?
Because toothpaste is light for the space it takes. A container of it reaches its cubic limit long before it approaches a payload limit, which flips the usual freight logic.
The consequence is that carton count per pallet, and pallets per container, decide your cost per tube almost entirely. Negotiating hard on unit price while ignoring how well the container fills is a common way to win the argument and lose the margin. We confirm cartons per container in the quotation against your specific pack mix rather than publishing a general figure.
What goes wrong in transit?
Crushing, more than anything else. Toothpaste cartons are lightweight board carrying a soft product, and they do not tolerate the stack heights that a rigid packaged good will take.
Corrugated board also loses stiffness as it absorbs humidity on a long sea leg, so a stack that looked solid at loading has less structural margin three weeks later. The practical protections are ordinary: sensible stack height, tight loading with no voids for pallets to shift into, and loading and sealing done by the party that owns the goods rather than at an intermediate yard.
How is it declared and labelled?
HS code 33061010, Vietnam origin, with Vietnamese text on the pack.
Confirm the classification against your own tariff schedule, since import-side classification is your customs authority’s determination rather than ours. On labelling, if your market requires another language we apply it in-house before cartons are sealed and palletised: you send the artwork or the regulatory text your authority mandates, approve a sample, and the run starts after that.
Oral care often carries additional mandatory content, fluoride declarations in particular, so send your authority’s requirements rather than assuming a straight translation of the Vietnamese text will pass.
How should a first order be structured?
As part of a mixed container, in most cases. Toothpaste travels well with other personal care and household lines, and a mixed load lets you test which Colgate variants move in your accounts before committing a full container to one.
Whitening variants and specialist formulations behave very differently between markets, and nothing on a specification sheet predicts which will sell where. One shipment across three or four lines answers that faster than any amount of forecasting.
Frequently asked questions
How many tubes of Colgate are in a carton?
48 units per carton across the Colgate lines we supply, including the Optic White 100g variants and Himalayan Salt Whitening 180g.
What HS code applies to Colgate toothpaste from Vietnam?
33061010. Confirm the classification against your own destination tariff schedule, since import-side classification is decided by your customs authority.
Does carton size change between Colgate variants?
The count stays at 48, but tube size changes the volume a carton occupies. A carton of 48 at 180g takes more space than a carton of 48 at 100g, so confirm pack size when modelling container fill.
Can Colgate packs be labelled for my market?
Yes. Vietnam-market packs print in Vietnamese, and your market’s language is applied in-house before cartons are sealed. Send your authority’s requirements, since oral care often carries mandatory declarations beyond a straight translation.
Get the carton and container figures
Tell us the variants, pack sizes, destination and quantity and we’ll confirm cartons per container, classification and any labelling work before you commit.
Related reading: how to compare toothpaste lines for a wholesale order.
About us
Asia Grocery Co., Ltd is a Vietnamese distributor, wholesaler and exporter of fast-moving consumer goods, shipping to more than 50 countries since 2010, from our own warehouse in Vietnam.
