Guides
What to know before you place the order
Four guides written for importers rather than for shoppers: what to specify, what the paperwork actually requires, and the mistakes that cost a container. No prices quoted, no products recommended — because the right answer depends on your market and your port.
Importing power tools from China
The whole process end to end: choosing a specification that fits your market, what a supplier should tell you before you pay a deposit, what the conformity schemes require in each country, and how FOB, consolidation and freight actually work.
Specifying a solar water pump
How to size a solar pumping system from the water you need rather than from a wattage badge — daily volume, total head, peak-sun hours — and the four mistakes that leave a pump running dry by midday.
Choosing sheep shearing equipment
Corded or battery, 680 W or 1000 W, which blade gap for which coat — and why the cutter and comb set is the line that decides whether a customer comes back next season.
CE marking and destination conformity
What a CE declaration actually covers, what it does not, and how the destination-country schemes in Africa and the Middle East differ from it — who applies, who pays, and when in the process it has to start.
How these guides are written
From the export side, not the retail side
Every guide here is written from the position of someone who buys from Chinese factories, inspects the batch before loading and ships FOB. That is a different set of concerns from a buyer comparing tools in a shop, and it is the reason these pages exist at all.
No prices, deliberately
We do not publish prices, and these guides do not either. A tool price means nothing without a quantity, a configuration and a port. Where a figure would be meaningless out of context, we explain what drives it instead of inventing a number.
Say what we do not know
Where a rule is country-specific and changes, we say so and point you at the person who can confirm it — usually your own customs broker. A guide that pretends to have current answers for eight jurisdictions would be a worse guide.
One thing worth knowing before you read further. We are a trading and export company, not a manufacturer. We buy from vetted Chinese factories and export under our own brand and yours — which we say plainly, because it changes what you should expect from us.
Read enough, and want a quotation?
Send the models or categories, the quantities and your destination port. You get a written quotation with unit prices, MOQ, packing, lead time and trade terms — usually within one business day.