How to get reliable suppliers in China?

Getting suitable and reliable suppliers is an important part of your import from China. Foreign customers mainly use Google, Alibaba and other online platforms to find Chinese suppliers, but how to determine if this supplier is a real factory or a trading company?

For the following 3 points:

1.Company name:
If a company with "Trading" or "Imp & Exp" in the name is an intermediary.

2.Company address:
If the business address is an office in a building, it must be an intermediary. Generally, the factory will only be “NO.XX, XX ROAD” or “XX Industrial Zone”. For example:



--This address above, we can judge by "ROOM 12-2" that it is an office, so it is probably an intermediary.



--This is a factory’s address.

3. Images of the company:
If the images on the company website show the name of the company door and the factory, it must be a factory. If you only see the office, showroom, or workshop without the company name, you may be a trading company. For example:

--We can clearly judge that the picture above is a factory, the company name and factory buildings are all taken in the photos.




--As in the picture above, if you only see the production office or workshop without the company name, is probably a trading company.

With the three points above, in most cases, you can judge whether a company is a factory or a trading company. However, there will be exceptions. For example, some factories and sales departments do not work in the same place and register online using the address of the sales department office, or some intermediaries do not have Trading or Imp & Exp in their names, and then enter an address that not real on the internet.

If you want to accurately judge whether a company is trustworthy, you can take our supplier verification service. We can verify the company registration information on the official government website or we can go to the factory for a verification in person. For more information, see the following website:
https://www.chinalatinagent.com/en/Supplier-Verification-in-China.html