Supplier due diligence · China · Independent third party
We write single-client due-diligence reports on Chinese manufacturers. Built from national registry records, destination-country bills of lading, certification history and payment-entity tracing — every finding graded by the strength of the evidence behind it.
You already know which factory your goods come from. It is on your bills of lading, your invoices, your WeChat history.
What you usually do not know is whether that legal entity manufactures anything at all, how large it really is, who else it sells to, and whether the money you pay lands on the same company that signs the contract and ships the goods.
That gap is where a deposit gets lost. The report closes it with records a third party can re-check — not with assurances.
There is no mainland-China export manifest database open to researchers. So a supplier is observed through the import records of the countries it ships to — actual cargo that landed, not capacity it claims. It costs us coverage of goods routed via third ports or sold at home, and we state that limit in every report.
Registry record, customs transaction, commercial database, public web page, or unverified. A conclusion you cannot weigh is not a conclusion. Where the record is silent we write "not found in public records" — never "does not exist", and never a softer word for fraud.
No supplier commission, no paid ranking, no sourcing fee, no samples, no introductions. We do not contact the supplier during the engagement — your incumbent never learns it was looked at. The trade-off: commercial terms that exist only inside a quotation are not in the report, and we say so on the page.
The research is not handed to a junior analyst, a template, or an offshore pool. The person who answers your email is the person who checks the registry entry, reads the manifests and signs the appendix. One fixed fee, agreed in writing before work starts.
Registry scope, insured headcount, capital actually paid in, and whether the heavy processes — plating, coating, casting — are in-house or outsourced.
Insured employees, registered and paid-in capital, land and plant records, and the permits only a producer can hold.
Destination-side import records: volume by month, buyer concentration, share of a single account.
Issue and expiry dates, gaps between renewal, changes of certification body, and what the certificate actually covers.
The four links importers care about: customs registration, customs credit rating, contact-domain consistency, related or near-identical legal entities.
Forced-labour entity lists and withhold-release orders, safety and environmental penalties, and the traceability questions your compliance team will ask.
Re-checkable at source
Who shipped what, to whom, when
Cross-check only
Indicates intent, proves nothing
Stated as unknown
Only about 22% of US import records carry a declared value, so any dollar purchase figure would be a guess. Scale is measured in bills of lading, not invented turnover.
Import manifests cover sea cargo. Land and rail crossings are absent. An empty result means absent from the data — not that nothing happened.
There is no mainland-China export manifest database open to researchers. A Chinese supplier is observable only from the destination side, which misses goods routed through third ports or sold at home.
Deliberately not in a report: macro industry data such as market size, growth and output tonnage; any analysis of you, the buyer; prices obtained through non-public channels; and a recommendation to switch or stay. We give facts and mechanism — the decision stays with you.
Four lines lifted from a completed report on a Chinese metal-fabrication manufacturer. The figures are real and each carries its evidence grade; the supplier, its customers and the underlying records are withheld. That is the product — an anonymised page is all you see before paying.
Headcount from the social-insurance filing; shipment count from destination-side manifests reconciled against the customs registration number; concentration after merging three entities trading under one group; the certificate gap from the issuer's own renewal record. Each line names its source in the appendix.
Half of export volume going to one buyer is a fact about dependence. It may mean a dedicated plant, a long programme, or a customer about to leave. The report states the record and the possible readings — it does not pretend to know which is true.
Share of export volume attributable to a single customer, measured across 2,915 bills of lading. Concentration is reported, not interpreted — a number like this can mean a dedicated plant or a customer about to leave.
The supplier name, or the shipment record you already have. A company registration number is enough to start.
What the report covers and what it does not, the fee, and the delivery date. No payment before that.
Registry, customs, certification, environmental, payment entity, compliance exposure. Four layers, every line graded.
Delivered to your inbox, watermarked to your company, not for redistribution.
A single fixed fee per report, confirmed in writing before any work starts. No retainer, no subscription, no charge if the supplier cannot be identified. Invoice by PayPal or bank transfer; the report is released on payment.
Typically where one Chinese supplier represents six figures of annual spend, or where changing supplier would cost a season of stock. Also used before a first factory audit, to decide whether the flight is worth it — and after a quality dispute, to establish who the counterparty actually is.
Reports are written for a single named recipient and are not published. Correspondence in English or Chinese.
What we ask of you: the supplier name and, if you have it, the destination port and an approximate first shipment date.
What you receive: a written scope note and fixed fee within one business day — before any payment.
You will get a one-page scope note and a fixed fee within one business day. No form, no call, no sales sequence.
Uchewei Independent Research · Jinan, Shandong, China
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