Doing Business in China

Three major steps to import china

The first important step is to do your due diligence. There are goods which are copied rightly by the Chinese manufacturers, which trasp the Copy Right rules. There is no question about the quality or the reliability of the product, except that the brand name was stollen from somewhere else.
The second part is the payment. Most, if not all the Chinese suppliers insist on Advance payment 100% before manufacturing the product. I.e. pay-first-and-we-start making.

It will be a difficult pill for Western companies to swallow, but this has become more acceptable and even practiced by some Western companies.

If you are doubtful of the Chinese supplier, you can appoint inspectors to check on the authenticity, reliablity and integrity of the company.

The third and more important part is the after-sales service by the Chinese manufacturer. We have this problem: The first year since we started buying from a company in Shenzhen, their products were of good quality. We sent some to the lab here for verifications, and the readings were exceptionally good, some points even better than the specifications. But after our first year, and as our orders become bigger and more frequent, the Quality of the goods deteriorate. The test reports show them to be very good, with smaller margin of error than the tolerance. But our customer found them way out, some even not able to boot up. That leaves us doubtful of the genuiness of the report.

Three major steps to import china