How to find Qualified Chinese Suppliers – Part 1
Many companies want to buy products from China, and want to find their satisfactory products in the Chinese market. The most common way is to find suppliers online, attend the Canton Fair, receive promotional emails or social media promotions. Let’s talk about some ways to find qualified suppliers on the Internet.
Currently, the three largest international B2B websites in China are Alibaba, Global Sources and Made in China. There are a large number of similar products and many suppliers on these websites. How to choose a qualified supplier can sometimes be a headache. Here we share our experience on how to find qualified suppliers.
First of all, we need to find real manufacturers, not middlemen. Going directly to the factory can get better prices and higher quality assurance, and you can also avoid many risks. But on B2B sites, it seems difficult to tell whether a buyer is a middleman or a manufacturer, and it is also difficult to tell whether a buyer is reliable. If you are interested in a buyer’s product and have a good negotiation with the other party, then you should ask the other party to provide his business license. A business license in China is an official document issued to a producer or operator by the Chinese government’s administration for industry and commerce. The format of this document is uniform throughout China.
What’s the use of getting the other party’s business license? The information on the business license allows us to judge the real situation of the buyer and prepare for avoiding risks. But sometimes the person who talks to you on the other end of the computer may have business licenses of several companies. He is not a liar. He is most likely a sales agent for several factories. This requires us to more carefully verify the screening from other methods.
The practice of asking the other party to provide a business license is also a very normal business practice in China.
If a buyer cannot even provide a business license, then the buyer must be operating illegally.
