Your Chinese ‘factory’ may be a trader with a rented meeting room. The seven checks we run before a factory verification, and what each one exposes.
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Rail to Russia is the easy part. It runs on a published schedule, it takes two to three weeks, and there are half a dozen competent operators who will move your container. The two things that actually break China–Russia deals are the ones buyers discover late: A conformity certificate that Russian customs won’t accept —
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If you’re comparing freight quotes from China to Germany, you’re optimising the wrong line item. For most industrial goods, freight is a meaningful slice of landed cost. For fasteners of iron or steel imported from China into the EU, there is a line that can be larger than the goods themselves: the EU anti-dumping duty.
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ABOUT ARCHER SOURCING Meet Archer Sourcing:Your Team on the Ground in Xi’an If you buy from China — or you’re trying to — you already know the pain points. Suppliers that look great on Alibaba until the cargo arrives. Freight forwarders who quote low and add fees later. A 10-hour time gap that turns a
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