Read this article to learn about the 7 key China supplier documents which you should request from your suppliertohelp protect your business.
Requesting, checking and verifying Chinese certificates can be a great way to build trust with your supplier, and if they are serious about doing business then they should be willing to provide them to you.
Chinese companies often display dozens of certificates in their showroom, or on their website, but many are of little relevance. In this article we highlight seven of the most important China supplier documents you should focus on.
Introduced in October 2015, the new 18-digit Chinese business registration number is being quickly adopted by companies across Mainland China.
Appearing on the Chinese business license, this new number is the most clear manifestation of the huge overhaul of the company registration system, carried out by authorities in their impressive modernization drive.
If you are considering starting a company in China, or doing business with a company in China, it is important to first learn a little about how the system of company registration in China works. The more you educate yourself about Chinese laws and business procedures, the more success you will have conducting business in the country.
Through the process of carrying out company verifications China Checkup receives a wide variety of documentation from our clients. Such documents include invoices, contracts, taxation documents, ISO certificates and business cards; however the most commonly received and also the most frequently forged is the Chinese business license.
You may have received a copy of a China Organization Code certificate from your Chinese supplier and wondered what it is?
Chinese companies usually provide potential buyers with a copy of their business license in order to demonstrate that they are a legitimate businesses.
Dan Harris of China Law Blog wrote today in this blog of their procedure for basic China due diligence, i.e. answering the question “is this China company legit?”
It struck us as quite similar to the procedure that we have recommended elsewhere, and it’s always nice to see your recommendations corroborated.
Before doing business in China it is important to make sure you are dealing with a legitimately registered business, but how exactly can you do that?
Travelling across the world to visit Chinese factories is a hugely time consuming and expensive process, so asking suppliers to provide, and then checking documentation is a better option.
The Registered Capital field on a Chinese business license is often used to make a quickfire assessment of the size of the company, or how much it has grown since its founding. It can also be used as a crude indicator of whether a company is a trading company or a supplier with the physical means to offer the products it claims to.
We’ve previously written about how to find out the name of the legal representative of a Chinese company via their business license.
We’ve noticed that some other company verification providers claim in their reports that anyone who isn’t the legal representative "is not authorised to represent" the company in question.
Today is the first working day with the new Chinese business registration system in effect. We’ve translated a Chinese news piece about the changes below.
If you’ve been given a 15-digit China business registration number, you may be wondering how you can go about verifying it.
That’s certainly possible, but you might not be aware that you can also get quite a lot of information from a China business registration number simply by knowing how to break it down.
