Yiwu commodity market is for third world customers ?

Yiwu commodity market is for third world customers ?

Yiwu markets is definitely for third world customers, 70% products are not suitable for North America, Europe or Australian markets. The main buyers are from South American, Middle East, India, Eastern Europe, Africa. Most items will not pass safety tests if required, Especially very high lead contents in jewelry items and lead contents in toys.

Why will this happened ?

Cheap,cheap,cheap. If you only ask for cheap price, so what you would expect to get ? of course the low quality items. There is another reason, in order to survive in yiwu markets, lots of factories sell very cheap to earn the market share. If you want to sell in very cheap price, there is only one solution, low the products quality or quality standard is the most effective way.

So is there any items that can pass test ?

Yes of course, you have to source from factories ONLY, not from distributor or reseller. Also get the pre-production samples. And test with SGS Lab.

What standard usually used in testing ?

To North American market, Lead free testing usually use Californian Proposition 65

To European Market, testing usually use EN-71

Of course, different items has different test standard to use, check with us for more details.

How to know who is factories or distributor ?

This is complicate, that is why you need a professional yiwu agent, they will help you a lot.

But we can offer some tips:

1. Factories only specialized in one item or one category.

2. Factories will display new samples and update samples,the products is quite different from other shops

3. Factories has register mark or brand logo

Homogenization is intense in the markets

If you already visited yiwu markets, you will find that lots of shop sell EXACT same items, Homogenization become a huge and serious problem, also homogenization cause the quality problem, in order to compete with other suppliers, sell in cheap to get more buyers is only the solution. As they don’t know there are lot of other way to attract buyers, such as develop new samples,upgrade packing,offer custom prodution for private label company even at low order quantity… 

If you know how, you will definitely found treasure in this amazing markets. It is crazy cheap and hundred thousands products for explore.

The best and time saving way is to find a reliable and trust-able agent to work with. Please feel free to contact us. Let’s explore more business opportunity together.