Why You Should Opt for Chinese Trading Company?

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Why you should opt for Chinese trading company?
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• Trading is the act of buying and selling
  products, or services, for the sake of profit.
  Therefore, it could indeed be said that a
  manufacturer, is also a trading company
  assuming they actually sell their produce. In
  this article, however, the term Chinese trading
  company is not referring to manufacturers but
  to Chinese businesses specialized in buying items
  from manufacturers, and selling them to overseas
  buyers.
• That said, Chinese trading company are strictly
  not limited to either traders or makers. Many
  fall somewhere in between. In this article, we
  introduce you to the 5 most common types of
  Trading Companies in China, and what importers
  must know to avoid disorganized traders, and even
  scammers. Before you read this post, I have to
  emphasize that some trading companies here in
  Chinaincluding Hong Kongtruly create value for
  their customers.

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• 1) Trading companies tend to work with low-grade
  factories A Chinese trading company is in a
  delicate situation. It has to make a margin and
  keep its selling price competitive. And it has to
  ensure that its customers and its suppliers dont
  start doing business directly together.
• The solution is usually to work with factories
  that are not quite used to exporting themselves.
  These manufacturers typically have a low cost
  structure and are not properly organized. Another
  advantage (in the eyes of traders) is that they
  seldom have any English speaker on staff.

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• 2) Trading companies seldom tell their customers
  about quality issues A trading company sells
  products to importers. Therefore, if a foreign
  buyer is not satisfied about the way an order was
  handled, the trading company can lose money the
  purchaser can ask for a discount or a shipment by
  air, or even cancel the project. So these
  intermediaries often keep their mouth shut when
  they know of serious issues, for fear of
  frightening their customer.
• To make things worse, many trading companies do
  not do check quality at all in their
  subcontractor factories. Their job is
  match-making, communicating, and shipping. After
  all, if the buyer is serious about quality, he
  will come and check it by himself, right?

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• To make things worse, many trading companies do
  not do check quality at all in their
  subcontractor factories. Their job is
  match-making, communicating, and shipping. After
  all, if the buyer is serious about quality, he
  will come and check it by himself, right?
• The importer should take the lead and send
  inspectors in the factory. When this is the case,
  the intermediary has a strong incentive to avoid
  quality issues. For maybe 3 of their shipments,
  trading companies that work for my clients ask me
  to postpone an inspection because their
  internal QC rejected the products, and re-work is
  under process. When no inspection is scheduled,
  they never write this to my clients!

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• Trading companies often do not have any control
  over the factories A very small minority of
  trading companies have a stake in the factories
  in which they place orders, even though they
  generally pass themselves as the owners. They
  conduct friendly business (no contract, no
  penalties). When things go wrong they have no
  real power over the manufacturer, who knows that
  the middleman will absorb charge-backs and
  airfreight imposed by the importer rather than
  lose a customer.
• Chinese trading company generally prefer to work
  directly with foreign buyers, who switch
  suppliers less easily than local traders. It
  means they will focus their efforts on making
  their overseas customers happy, and the trading
  companies orders dont have the priority (unless
  they represent 40 of the manufacturers
  business).

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