How to verify a Chinese factory before you send a deposit
Six checks that separate a real factory from a trading company with a rented showroom — and the documents to ask for at each step.
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AQL is a sampling standard, not a quality guarantee. Here is how to read the numbers, what the defect classes mean, and when AQL 2.5 is the wrong choice.
DDP vs FOB: which Incoterm is cheaper for a first order
DDP looks expensive on the quote and cheap on the invoice. FOB looks the opposite. The arithmetic that decides it, with a worked example.