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China Sourcing Challenges: Overcoming Issues of Negative Perception

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September 30, 2024

Understand key China sourcing challenges and learn strategies for successful long-term China sourcing. Navigate risks and maximize supplier reliability. Lately, negative feelings about doing business with China have noticeably increased. We’ve observed that these concerns are tied not only to general perceptions, but also to rising China sourcing challenges that...

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“Made in China” Pt 2: Background of Chinese Production and Exports

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September 25, 2024

As we wrote in  “Made in China” – Quality and Perception: Intro, China has been known as a source for cheap goods with questionable quality for years. In this blog series, we’ll be exploring how China Direct Buying and other factors contributed to this reputation and what technological and economic...

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Shipping from China to the USA

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September 18, 2024

Transport cost and time remain the main determinants for businesses and wholesalers to decide their sourcing locations. At first, it seems that there are many different costs, procedures, and variables to think about when deciding whether to source from China. We hope to share some advice based on our experience...

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Ensuring Timely Delivery When Sourcing from China

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September 13, 2024

When navigating China manufacturing, delays can often occur, but with the right preparation, many can be avoided or minimized to ensure a smoother sourcing process. Below are a few tips that can reduce the risk of delay and mitigate its damage when it occurs: Place orders early: You’ll want to...

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Indirect Sourcing vs Direct Sourcing: What is the best approach?

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September 1, 2024

Importing from China has never been a decision made overnight. Importers have many options to weigh and lots of research to do when considering moving their supply chain to China. One barrier has always been – how? What is the best approach to buying from China? The best approach to...

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Purchasing in China: Are you ready to order?

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August 3, 2024

Have you been seeing price increases from your suppliers/factories? How do you plan to place orders when faced with rising prices? Purchasing in China has faced these challenges in recent years due to COVID-19 and its aftermath: maintaining inventory, global inflation, unstable exchange rates, panic hoarding, etc. State of Flux...

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CPG’s Quarterly Newsletter – Q3 2024

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July 16, 2024

  Welcome to CPG's 2024 Q3 Newsletter! Our newsletters summarize recent events and cover China supply chain trends. In this installment, we discuss China travel, quality assurance, freight pricing, ASD Market Week, geopolitics, and more. As always, we welcome your feedback – please tell us what you think. We wish...

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China Sourcing: Improving Chinese Supplier Performance

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July 16, 2024

Importers who have gone through the trouble of researching, qualifying, and building a relationship with their Chinese suppliers are sometimes hesitant to change, even when the quality of their services and output begins to decline. This desire to not want to “rock the boat” with suboptimal suppliers is what we...

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