4 ways to find the right Chinese supplier

It's a good idea to find the right Chinese supplier to reduce your costs. So where to find the right supplier? There are four main ways

The Canton fair

Yiwu wholesale market

China wholesale catalog: alibaba

Sellersunion Online

1. The Canton fair

If you want a complete picture of how to find suppliers in China, I suggest you go to one of the world's largest sourcing fairs: the guangzhou import and export fair. The twice-yearly trade war is the size of 218 football fields. The exhibition is divided into three parts.

The first involves electronics, the second consumer goods, gifts and home decor, and the third textiles, clothing, shoes and office supplies.

The guangzhou import and export fair brings together suppliers and factory owners from all over Asia. Here, you can easily find manufacturers who provide OEM services.

There are two advantages in seeking suppliers at the Canton fair:

1. You will find that the suppliers here can speak English, and they will send employees with good English to the Canton fair because they will directly receive foreign customers. Of course, you can also find a translator by yourself, about 100 yuan can help you communicate with Chinese suppliers for a day. The price is beautiful.

You have direct access to the products you need. You can't pick Chinese products online, but you can come to the fair. Of course, you can also find OEM service is very convenient.

2. Yiwu wholesale market

Yiwu wholesale market is the world's largest commodity market. You can find many low price products here. And the Canton fair, yiwu commodity market almost open all year, you can come here at any time.

Many traders will find a yiwu agent , let's see what yiwu agent can help us do.

Help do hotel booking, train station/airport picking up, factories want to arranging and accompany

Procure your order

Collect the items you ordered from each vendor&arrage shipment

Coordinate the payment to the manufacturers

Coordinate logistics

Oversee the modifications

Oversee package customization

Negotiate lowest price

Words and phrases inspect your goods ar the factory

Source future products for you

Collect and send samples of future products and so much more we can help you to do.

Experienced traders understand that looking for a suitable agent in yiwu can save a lot of time and reduce a lot of trouble. It's actually a good deal.

3. China wholesale catalog: alibaba

Alibaba is arguably China's largest wholesale directory, where you can easily find thousands of suppliers.

How to use it? Simply enter what you are looking for in the search bar and alibaba returns a list of suppliers, prices and minimum order quantities.

By clicking the button, you can send a message to the vendor and establish a connection. This is the sample script I used when I first contacted the vendor.

Hi, "supplier name",

My name is name, I am the buyer of store name, the store of your country sells the products you want to carry. We are interested in carrying many of the items you provided.

Specifically, I would like to get pricing and availability for the following items

"List the items... If you have photos, please provide them."

"List the items... If you have photos, please provide them."

"List the items... If you have photos, please provide them."

We would appreciate it if you could send us more information together with your catalogue and moq requirements.

Thank you

"Your name"

Once established, you can request samples, place orders, etc...

In addition, alibaba offers a service called trade guarantee, which functions like a escrow service, so you won't be fooled.

Sounds easy? What is the catch?

The biggest caveat is that this process can take a while and it takes patience to communicate back and forth with suppliers.

For example, it can take weeks from initial exposure to sample acquisition.

In addition, language barriers can make communication challenging because you must accurately describe what you want to produce through email and live chat.

Another key difference between using a catalog like alibaba's and attending trade shows is that services like alibaba tend to contain a lot of middlemen.

Because alibaba's supplier signal-to-noise ratio is so low, many high-quality suppliers do not list themselves.

4.Sellersunion Online

Sellersunion Online is another great way to find Chinese suppliers. Now is the Internet era, there is no way to yiwu market to online, the answer is yes, online is such a website. Saier online brings together 20,000 high-quality suppliers and 500,000 products in yiwu market. These are the suppliers who have cooperated with Sellersunion Online for 20 years. Someone else has screened your suppliers before, so why not take advantage of the fruits of other people's labor?

There are about 60,000 suppliers in yiwu market. You can find them by yourself. You may not be able to get to know and find the right supplier in a short time. If you think Sellersunion Online products too much, you can also choose to directly tell Sellersunion Online, they will help you choose the right products. They also provide yiwu agency services. All of the above services they can do.