Your Trusted China Sourcing Partner

What a China sourcing agent actually does

Buying from a Chinese factory over email has three structural weaknesses. You rarely know whether the company answering you is the manufacturer or a trading layer sitting above it. You have no independent way to judge whether the first price you are offered is the market price. And you are usually asked for a deposit and a balance before you ever see the goods. A sourcing agent exists to close those three gaps on the ground.

We start from the product rather than from a supplier list. Your specification, target landed cost, order volume and destination country decide which manufacturing clusters are worth approaching: electronics in Shenzhen and Dongguan, hardware and tools in Zhejiang, textiles and apparel across Guangdong and Fujian. We contact factories directly, screen their business licence and export record, request samples where the category justifies it, and return the quotations side by side so the price differences are visible rather than rhetorical.

The second half of the work happens after the order is placed. We review the proforma invoice and the bank details before you transfer, hold the production schedule, run pre-shipment inspection at AQL 2.5 unless your category needs a tighter level, and prepare the export documents for FOB, CIF or DDP depending on how much of the route you want us to own.

What you receive is not advice but artefacts: a supplier comparison sheet, negotiated quotations with MOQ and tooling costs separated, inspection reports with photographs and measurements, and shipping documents that match the commercial invoice. Those are the files your finance and compliance teams will ask for later, which is why they are produced as a matter of course rather than on request.