Liam Cai

I run sourcing and pre-payment checks out of Yiwu, China, through United Profit Import and Export Co., Ltd., a registered import/export company. Ten years in the trade, most of it watching overseas buyers get the quality question right and the cost question wrong. What I can speak to with first-hand detail: how 1688 and Alibaba pricing is actually structured behind the listed price, how to tell a factory from a trading company, why the HS code on a Chinese export declaration often does not match how destination customs will read it, what forwarders mean when a quote comes in far below the market, and how landed cost gets underestimated through volumetric weight and Incoterms misreads. Supplymo sells verification and decision reports, not sourcing commissions, so I have no supplier to ...