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For most of the second half of last month, I was in China. This trip I brought my 17 year old daughter. It was her first trip to China; it’s always fun…

Electronic Balance Boards are hitting big, and we’ve been getting requests to help our customers import them from China in production run quantities. Available in a variety of colors, wheel sizes, and…

We get a lot of inquiries from individuals and companies that are in the beginning phases of developing a new product. Others have already made their product, perhaps domestically, and are asking…

The presidential campaign is well under way, and as usual, China bashing is back. One candidate in particular has gone on the record about “standing up to China for stealing our jobs.”…

We get calls all the time from customers who want to send a sample to China to get a production quote. If the product is a simple item such as a stuffed…

Last year during a visit to Qingdao, China, we stopped off at a street fair to look around. A couple of guys were selling liquid in the large jugs you see in…

Last week we loaded a new video on sourcing from China to the home page. The previous video was done by a professional actor; we decided to make the change because our…

We are now sourcing from manufacturing companies in Taiwan. A little about Taiwan: their population is 23 million, as compared to China’s 1.3 billion. Taiwan’s 977 billion dollar GDP is around one…

For the past seven months, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which represents 20,000 dockworkers at the ports along the West Coast of the U.S., including Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego,…

Happy New Year! It’s always fun to get a new year launched, isn’t it? We re-visit our dreams, look back at our successes and issues we might need to fine tune, set…