Things To Be Considered By Promotional Gift Suppliers Who Wishes To Start Importing Directly From China

Author: Karl Duncan

Author: Karl Duncan

Should you be like most of the promotional gift suppliers in the UK, you most likely purchase your goods from UK or European suppliers. You will know and understand that the majority of corporate merchandise products you purchase from your UK suppliers are actually imported from China. You may also have wondered whether you might somehow be able to cut out the middleman and deal directly with the Far East factories. Doing so can be risky but if you find a good supplier you will be happy you gave it a try. A lot of UK promotional gift suppliers are scared to deal directly with China. This is due greatly to the fact that there are a lot of scare stories out there about how financially dangerous it is to purchase directly from the manufacturer. Although some of these stories may be true, the majority are made up by UK trade suppliers to discourage you from going directly to their suppliers. The hard fact is, your UK and European suppliers can continue to offer you a valuable service even if you do begin to make contact with Chinese factories for some gift lines. It would be very expensive if not impossible for the small promotional gift business to offer large quantities of the many different promotional products as the larger importers do. Your larger suppliers will import huge quantities of promotional gifts so that they can offer a large selection of promotional merchandise a days notice for print. You should continue to rely on this very important service. An excellent point at which to start purchasing directly from Chinese factories is to search for them. Information on Chinese manufacturers can be found online and also at one of the excellent Chinese gift exhibitions held in the UK every year. If you fancy a trip to Hong Kong, there is a huge Promotional Gift Exhibition held every Spring that is well worth a visit. You will soon find Chinese suppliers of everything from promotional pens to stress balls to corporate apparel. And then, you should choose one type of product to import, for example promotional stress balls. Become an expert in the product and learn as much about the manufacturing and printing process as possible. It is important to remember that there is no rush. Take your time and start slowly and you will learn as you go. When you receive another enquiry for the product you would like to order directly, send your new Chinese supplier an email. They will usually be very happy to service you and will respond with prices for the product and shipping. Shipping can cost more than the actual product so be careful not to under quote your customer. You will most likely be amazed at how much money you will be saving by cutting out the middleman. Probably you have heard that one of the drawbacks in dealing with the Chinese is that everything is on a pro-forma basis. You will usually have to make payment before the factory will accept your order. There is of course a little risk involved so it is advised that your first couple of orders be quite small. You will want to ensure that your new supplier gets the goods to you on time and that the print and product are of good quality. If time allows, ask you customer to send you a printed sample before proceeding with the order. There will be some cost involved but it will help you sleep at night knowing that the product you have ordered is as goo or better than you would receive from your usual UK supplier. There is a good probability that you will not be let down. In fact, you may find that the print quality is actually better when done at the source than the promotional gifts are printed here in the UK. Give importing a try and you may never look back. Import Chinese Art From China Most recently, I found myself in need of some form of artwork in one room of my house following a serious episode of decorating. After visiting a local wholesaler, I noticed they were selling some paintings imported from China. The style was abstract symbols with lively colors, oil on canvas. I saw that they also included details of the artists and provinces in China from which they originated. The range of prices for the paintings according to mount size was from as little as 5 GBP. I am under no illusion about the fact that these paintings are more than likely mass-produced in a factory, but the fact was I still liked the look of them. They were not listed as 'original', but 'hand-painted' Chinese art. A result of research on the Internet, China has been mass-producing copies of famous works of art for many years, mainly to the tourist market. Copy painters will live and work in small studios, working many, many hours. They are rarely on fixed wages and are more usually paid by the finished painting. When I browsed the Internet today, I found a number of sites advertising original Chinese art for sale, and available via online ordering. They offer works of art that are one-off and not copied, and generally retail at much more expensive prices. They advertise both oil-on-canvas and ink pictures drawn onto rice paper, making much of the fact that they are selling only original pieces and not exploiting any of the artists in anyway. Apparently though, these sites also make a point of belittling the mass-produced copies mentioned earlier, and that probably includes the factory hand-painted canvases I had been looking at in the Wholesalers. Yet there are many department stores around the world that have display after display of prints of famous works of art, framed water color prints and photographic prints either on canvas or behind glass and within wood frames. Prints of other artists' works and no doubt done on assembly lines are probably produced in the thousands. So why is the hand painting of oil-on-canvas in a factory looked down upon so much? Is it the apparent exploitation of art students, or common workers used to do the paintings, the long hours that they are forced to work for minimum pay? Or is it simply the blatant copying of other works of art? Apparently I am no art connoisseur - I cannot afford to be - and I would not knowingly buy a copy palmed off as an original, but if the design is a mass-produced abstract of original design, and is produced quickly and efficiently, and I like the way that piece of art has been done, or the way the artwork will compliment the place I want to hang it, what does it matter how much it cost or how it was produced, so long as it looks right.About the Author:

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