Year: 2020
The four items listed here are common things Importers overlook when placing an order with their Supplier. Chinese Suppliers are infamous for only performing explicit requests from buyers (What?! You...
5 Common Reasons for Shipping Delays from China
Often when our clients enquire about the transit time for their container to reach their port, we like to add a week over the transit time stated by the shipping line.
To this they often come back...
8 Ways to Pay your Chinese Suppliers & Their Risks
I get a lot of inquiries from new importers wanting to find out the best way to pay their Chinese suppliers. These importers are especially concerned about the “safety” of their funds having read some...
China trade-related rules will be translated into English
The Chinese government is making life easier for foreign entrepreneurs trading with China. It made an announcement declaring it will translate Chinese trade-related laws and regulations into English....
What happens in Chinese factories during the Chinese New Year?
We are once again at that time of the year
where we have to try & convince new importers & sometimes existing importers to speed up their decision making due to the approaching Chinese New...
What’s the difference between a Chinese Sourcing & Trading Company?
This is one of the favorite questions that I like to ask candidates when recruiting people for our sourcing team and a lot of them find it difficult to establish a clearly distinction. Among a lot...
Product Labeling for Importers in USA
Product Labeling is an aspect of importing that many first time importers overlook. I know this first hand due to the number of questions I receive about the topic, and more importantly, my own experience!...
The Key to Finding Good Products
iPhone cases- don’t do it! One of the comments I get asked by friends, acquaintances, commenters on this blog, and so on, is ‘do you have any ideas
The Importance of a Delivery Cushion
Optimism is a wonderful quality, but expecting everything to go right in the world of production is risky business! Anyone who has tried to manufacture something, knows it’s a process that can be fraught...
3 Creative Ways to Pay for Inventory
Finding money to pay for new inventory is arguably the most challenging financial aspect of running a product-based business. It’s the maker’s catch 22; you can’t increase revenue without producing...