Quality Control
Pre-Shipment Inspection: What Importers Get, and What It Never Covers
A supplier in Yiwu tells you the goods are ready. Your customer’s bank tells you the letter of credit calls for an…
Container Loading Inspection in China: What Happens at the Door
The container is backed up to the dock, the doors are open, and forty pallets are sitting on the warehouse floor waiting…
Factory Audit in China: What It Proves Before You Place the Order
QIMA publishes its rate card in the open: product inspections from $419 USD per man day, supplier audit programmes from $669 USD…
Supplier Audit: What It Proves When Your Supplier Has No Factory
A supplier audit is a documented examination of a supplier against criteria you set in advance, producing findings supported by evidence you…
QC Checklist for China Suppliers: Build One for Your Product
Skip the template. Derive checkpoints from your product’s own failure modes, assign a defect class to every line, and get an accept-or-reject verdict….
Household Product Testing: What Importers Actually Need in 2026
Household product testing is the laboratory work that proves a product is legal to sell in your market — chemical, mechanical, flammability…
First Article Inspection: What Importers Should Check Before the Run
A first article inspection is a one-time, complete check of the first unit produced with the actual production tooling, against every characteristic…
Yiwu Product Quality Inspection: Avoid Amazon FBA Suspension
Product quality inspection China is often the last thing a new Amazon seller thinks about when they finalize a Yiwu order. They…
How to Inspect Product Quality Before Shipping from Yiwu
Running a product quality inspection in China for your first Yiwu order feels like a gamble when you’ve never seen the production…