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BSCI and Sedex Audits in China What Importers Must Know
Importers are facing more pressure from customers to ensure that their products are, at least to a certain extent, ethically produced. However, actively monitoring working conditions in a country far away, costs millions of dollars. In other word....
5 Ways to Have a Chinese Manufacturer Take Responsibility for Quality Issues
Many importers lament that Chinese suppliers don’t take any responsibility when quality issues are found after shipment. Ten years ago, I would have confirmed that it happens less than 0.1% of the time. These days, it seems to become more common. ....
Why you should think twice about importing fad products from China
Over the past decade, we’ve seen first-hand what products and business strategies have worked for our clients when importing from China. The success stories, i.e. those businesses which have scaled from small startups to successful companies, all have o....
Top 7 Fulfillment Centers in China and Hong Kong 2018
A Hong Kong or Mainland China based fulfilment center can help you distribute products directly from the factory to customers all over the world. In this article, we list the leading China based fulfillment centers, including Floship, Easyship, Ex....
China Distribution Contracts: The Questions We Ask
Forming a WFOE in China and then operating that business in China is difficult and expensive. See e.g., Forming a China WFOE: Ten Things To Consider and also Doing Business in China with Deportation or Worse Hanging Over Your Head on why having a WFOE i....
How to Adapt Your Furniture Quality Control Procedure during the Peak Season?
Prepare clear product specifications Preparing clear specifications is something we regularly mention on the AQF Quality Control Blog, and that’s because it’s essential. You cannot disappoint your customers with products that do not meet their ex....
The Future of Manufacturing in China: 2018 Edition
Are Aliexpress sellers going to take over e-commerce in the whole world?Are Chinese factories about to finally start acting like professionally managed companies?Or, are they just about to lose out big time to suppliers in Vietnam and India?Nobody knows....
Chinese Proprietary Product Purchase Terms
Purchasing products manufactured in China has changed substantially over the past five years. In the old days, foreign buyers usually either purchased generic, off the shelf products or they hired Chinese factories to make products designed by the forei....
Walmart to Enforce Pollution Control Measures on Suppliers in China
If you manufacture in China and distribute through Walmart, you could be squeezed by tighter sourcing requirements in the coming years. Walmart’s president and CEO Doug McMillon recently committed to cutting 50 million metric tons of carbon emiss....