Nobody in China works only for you. We do.
CBP now wants proof about a factory you've never stood in.
The factory works for the order. The trading company works for its margin. The agent you trust works for both.
We work for you — leveraging Chinese law and Chinese culture, from inside China's manufacturing hubs.
The burden of proof just moved. It's yours now.
It used to be that CBP had to show you'd done something wrong. Since June, you have to show you did something right — about a factory you've never stood in, in a language you don't read, on a deadline you don't set.
The evidence CBP wants lives inside that building. Production records. Where the raw material came from. Who actually made it. A dated photograph of your goods on a real line.
None of that can be created after the letter arrives. Someone was there collecting it, or nobody was.
And nobody in that building is on your side. The factory's records protect the factory. The agent's file protects his commission. Your broker has never seen the place.
Straight talk, before you spend a dollar with us or anyone else. A person on the ground does not stop a detention. The duty stays with you as importer of record. What changes is the evidence you can put on the table — and CBP decides on the evidence. Ours is collected by someone who works only for you.
This isn't a job you do once. It's a job someone does every month, or it doesn't get done.
Two ways to put someone in China on your side.
Our firm watches your supplier every month.
The price, the quality, the contract, the record CBP will ask for.
When something drifts, you hear it from us before it costs you.
Monthly Support, from $995 a month.
A full-time employee in the hub your factory is in.
Employed properly under Chinese law, on your books, working for nobody but you. Hired with you, trained by us, replaced together if it isn't right.
From $595 a month, plus salary and social at cost.
HOW WE TAKE YOUR SIDE
The three things every foreign buyer is up against. Working for you.
The law.
A contract in English is a conversation. A contract in Chinese, under Chinese law, with the right entity and the right chop, is something a Chinese court will enforce. We write them. And when a factory goes quiet, a letter on a Chinese law firm's paper lands differently than an email from Ohio.
Contracts · Legal Support · The Fixer
The culture.
Bad news doesn't travel to foreigners in China. Not from malice — from face, from hierarchy, and because nobody is paid to carry it. A Chinese speaker sitting in the factory office, asking the right way, gets the answer. Gets the labour records. Gets the name of the upstream supplier nobody mentioned. The same question by email from your desk ends the relationship.
Your employee · Monthly Support · Guided Visits
The reach.
A "factory" with a Hong Kong bank account. A registered address that's an empty office. A legal person tied to two failed companies. A lawsuit they didn't mention. You can't see any of that from your inbox. We're in five of China's manufacturing hubs, and someone can be in that building today.
Supplier Reality Check $95 · Factory Reality Check $795 · Due Diligence
Only for you" is a payment structure, not a promise.
We take no commission from any factory. Ever. Ask your sourcing agent to put that in writing.
We never source. If we found you the factory, you'd never know whose side we were on.
Our fee is fixed. It doesn't move when your order does. We make the same money whether you buy ten thousand units or a hundred.
Your employee's salary is at cost. Every line — wage, social insurance, housing fund — on your invoice, unmarked. Most agencies won't show you that number because the gap is where they make their money.
All billing runs through one company you can look up. China agent Ltd, Hong Kong. One invoice, one Stripe account, one set of books.
The only margin on the page is our fee. That's what makes the first line of this website true.
This is what "only for you" looks like in a factory.
Real clients. Real outcomes. Names changed. Lessons didn't.
"Most problems don't explode. They drift."
A monthly support client thought everything was under control. Month two — the supplier started pushing price increases. "Market conditions." We checked the raw materials. No real change. They were testing how much they could push.
We pushed back with data, not emotion. Locked pricing.
Month four — small quality drift. Nothing dramatic. Just small cuts. We caught it early.
Most problems don't explode. They drift. If no one's watching, drift becomes damage.
Monthly support case · Yiwu, 2025
"They thought they had consistency. They had roulette."
A client came to us with a "great supplier." Good price. Good samples. Two-year relationship.
We went to check.
The factory didn't exist. Office, yes. The supplier was a trading company outsourcing to three different factories depending on whoever was cheapest that week. Same product. Three production lines. Three quality levels.
The client thought they had a supplier. They had a roulette wheel.
Verify case · Guangzhou, 2023
"On paper, everything looked stable. On the floor, it was chaos."
Another client insisted their supplier was solid. Two years working together. We went during production — not before.
The line was messy. No QC. Workers switching materials mid-run because they ran out.
Nobody told the client. Shipments kept going.
That visit alone saved them from scaling a broken setup.
Visit case · Shenzhen, 2024
Seventeen years on your side of the table.
These are the lines we say to clients on calls. They're free. Use them.
1. If you didn't visit the factory, you don't have a supplier. You have a risk.
2. Price is never the real price. It's just the opening move.
3. Negotiation without a contract is just a conversation. In China, a polite one.
4. Factories don't cheat because they're bad. They cheat because the system allows it. Fix the system, not the supplier.
5. Your biggest problem in China isn't IP. It's communication. That's where most money is lost.
6. If you rely on one supplier, you're already in a weak position.
7. Samples mean nothing. Production is a different business.
8. Middlemen don't add cost. They hide it.
9. If a supplier is "very responsive," you're probably still in the sales phase. Wait for production.
10. The moment you commit too early, you lose leverage. Everything gets harder after that.
Where we work.
Local managers, local lawyers, local QC. Need someone in another Chinese city?
We employ anywhere in China, and we'll tell you straight what we can and can't watch from a distance.
Guangzhou
Guangdong · Hub since 2009
Foshan
Guangdong · Hub since 2011
Yiwu
Zhejiang · Hub since 2012
Shenzhen
Guangdong · Hub since 2012
Jinan
Shandong · opened 2026.
Straight answers.
Executive Order 14411, signed 3 June 2026, tightened who can act as importer of record, added ownership disclosure, introduced a "good standing" threshold, and set a minimum penalty floor with no mitigation for repeat offenders. The UFLPA Entity List reached 187 companies after the August expansion. In practice: CBP no longer has to show you did something wrong. You have to show you did something right, with evidence from inside the factory.
The legal duty of reasonable care stays with you as importer of record. What a person on the ground changes is the quality of evidence you can produce — supply chain mapping, production records kept as they happen, dated photographs, documented supplier engagement. CBP decides on the strength of the package. We help you have one worth submitting.
The factory makes money when you buy. The trading company makes money on its margin. The sourcing agent takes a fee from the factory. We take a fixed fee from you, no commission from anyone, and we never source — so we have nothing to gain from you buying more, buying from a particular supplier, or not hearing bad news.
We read what the factory sends before you act on it. We check price increases against actual raw material movement. We keep your contract alive so it's enforceable when you need it. We keep the record CBP will ask for, as it happens rather than reconstructed later. When something drifts — price, quality, delivery — you hear it from us first.
China Agent Ltd has registered presence in China's manufacturing hubs and legally employs the person — labour contract, social insurance, housing fund — while they work full-time for you. You never register a company in China. You see every candidate, you decide who to hire, we train them, and if it isn't working we replace them together. Their salary and social costs appear on your invoice at cost, every line.
Enforcement now looks past paperwork to production capacity, equipment, input sourcing, and whether the transformation claimed was real. That means someone visiting, reviewing records at the factory, and following inputs back a tier or two. A self-issued certificate carries very little weight with CBP.
His income goes up when your costs go up. We never find you a factory, we never take a percentage, and our fee doesn't move with your order.
and he need you to ship no matter what.
We work on supply chains that already exist, on the buyer's side only.
We don't do inspection-as-a-service or freight. We don't quote a job we haven't looked at. And we don't tell you your factory is bad — factories behave the way the system allows. We fix the system on your side of it.
Thirty minutes. Tell us what's happening.
You'll talk to someone who does this work in China. Not a salesperson.
We'll tell you which of the new rules touch what you make, what we'd do about it, and what it costs.
Put us to work for you →
WhatsApp us.
Tell us what you're making and what's going wrong. We'll tell you whether it's a call, a one-time job, or nothing. e job, or nothing.