What “pick up from Alibaba supplier” means under EXW On an Alibaba order placed on EXW terms, the factory packs your goods and leaves them at the dock. Risk and ownership pass to you the…
Why private label from Alibaba is hard Custom packaging for Alibaba dropshipping is how a small seller builds a real brand when the product factory will not do custom boxes and the printing house will…
How pick and pack works in China, step by step: from EXW factory pickup to a packed parcel at your customer’s door, with multi-supplier consolidation.
A seller I know lists a “bamboo desk organizer set” as one product. It is not one product. It is a bamboo tray from a factory in Huzhou, a metal frame from one in Foshan,…
A Shopify seller I work with sells phone accessories sourced from Alibaba. Her customer in Ohio does not know or care that the product was made in a Shenzhen factory. She wants one clean parcel…
A private-label seller I advise was sending a kitchen gadget to a US FBA center. The supplier carton arrived at our Guangzhou warehouse, we deboxed it, and one unit’s FNSKU would not scan. On its…
When you buy from Alibaba suppliers, the package rarely travels under a single tracking number from start to finish. Most shipments begin with a Chinese domestic courier (SF Express, ZTO, YTO, STO, etc.), then move…
Why the platform question is really a risk question Most comparisons of Chinese sourcing sites end with a ranking, as if one platform were simply better than the others. That framing misses the point. The…
Why shipping every supplier separately is so expensive When you buy from several Chinese suppliers, the default is for each one to ship its own parcel to you by courier. That default is the most…
What customs clearance actually is Customs clearance is the formal process of telling the destination country what you are importing and paying what is owed on it. In practice it has three parts: a declaration…
