What do you need to know if you want to have your item made in China?

---Standard procedure for developing business with Chinese manufacturers.

1. Identify your suppliers/manufacturers online or through tradeshow. You can also use our sourcing services. If you send me a list of these suppliers, we can check and verify if they are legal online.

2. Contact your suppliers/manufacturers, you might need a translator to help you communicate well with them.

3. Visit your suppliers/munufacturers with a local interpreter or a business guide, you can visit multiple factories in one day if they are not far away from each other, it is better if you hire a private driver with a car, some suppliers maybe arrange a driver to pick you up at the hotel, and then send you back to you hotel again, this is not very efficient if you plan on visiting many suppliers.

4. Get quotes from your suppliers/manufacturers, an interpreter or business guide will help you get reasonable prices, if you only want cheap price, or some suppliers would like to offer you very cheap price, but it usually ends up with bad quality on product or service.

5. Order samples or make prototypes at the suppliers that you want to do business with. You local business guide can help you consolidate all the samples from different suppliers, and check them all before ship to you.

6. Get sample or prototype approval. You need to do it yourself, and it is very important.

7. Start trial order. Usually there are a lot of problem and you need good and quick feedback.

8. Place big order. During production, it is better if you arrange an inspector to see how they run the production line, make sure they take good care of your product.

9. Arrange inspection before shipping. This is very important, after checking by your inspector, you will need to pay the balance.

10. Watch your suppliers load the containers. If you trust your suppliers, you don’t need to do that.