The city of Yiwu, located in the central part of east China's Zhejiang Province, near Shanghai and Hangzhou. It is reputed as "A Sea of Commodities, A Paradise for shoppers". It’s the largest wholesale market in the world. Yiwu International Trade City (also named Yiwu Futian Market), Binwang Market, and Huangyuan Market, are the 3 [...]
I have mentioned in before articles that products made in China all have their own industrial clusters. Knowing the industrial clusters helps a lot when you are importing products from China.For example, if you want to import toys from China, then you can go to Chenghai, or search for suppliers that are located in this town. Because Chinese toy products’ industrial [...]
Being a sourcing agent who helps source products from China, we usually ship our large customers’ cargoes in full containers. For many other small customers who are satisfied with the price we quote, as they do not have much experience in importing from China, they always get confused about different shipping methods.Some of them consider [...]
Nowadays, you will find there are growing numbers of Chinese sellers on online shopping websites like eBay and Amazon, and most of their product prices are extremely low because they are directly sold from China to the final customers. Local sellers on eBay or Amazon start to worry about will these people take away their business.Indeed, if a foreign [...]
Many importers are dying to know whether they are dealing with a factory or trading company when importing certain products from China. Because almost every Chinese supplier claims that they are factories, including suppliers on Alibaba, though they are actually trading companies. So there are lots of blogs and articles that teach importers how to verify suppliers on the Internet, [...]
We got many inquiries from people who want to start a small business by importing small quantity products from China since our website started. Most of them do not have much relevant experience, and just consider it’s very simple: find a Chinese supplier, buy products at a low price, ship home, and sell a high [...]
Balancing scooter becomes one of the most popular products in the world since 2015, and lots of customers want to import this product by asking us to source products from China.Our last blog introduces some basic information on how to import balancing scooters from China. In this article, we will emphasize the problems you have to [...]
If you are importing daily used products from China (less than a container for each product type), your manufacturers are probably very small. One thing that you shouldn’t do is believe everything your supplier tells you about them. For instance, a supplier may claim to be operating on a large-scale basis, employing a multitude of [...]
Most people who want to import certain products from china will always say “I want to find the factory” because they think factories offer the lowest price. This is not always true. Sometimes, a trading company offers cheaper prices than factories. Buying from factories also has various other troubles such as quality issues and late [...]
Recently, one of our customers asks us to help him source 1000 pcs of “Naughty Knot”. He had purchased this product in Germany before. It had a delicate packaging box and colored stickers with product information stuck on them. He knows that the German supplier must import the product from China.When he contacted us, the customer [...]
