Practical reading for importers: how professional QC works, what inspectors check and how to avoid sourcing pitfalls.
New articles from our QC team are in the works. In the meantime, our two guides are live:
The six decisions behind every professional inspection — checkpoints, AQL, checklists and verdicts.
Read GuideFrom shortlist to first purchase order: clusters, licences, audits and pilot orders.
ReadHow to read an AQL report · Supplier audit vs factory visit · Golden samples: the one document that prevents disputes · When to 100% sort an order · What container-loading photos should show
Suggest a topicThe two live guides cover the decisions every buyer faces. How to Conduct a Product Inspection in China walks through the six choices behind a professional inspection — which checkpoints matter for your product, how to set AQL levels, what belongs in the checklist, and how to turn findings into a pass, hold or fail verdict you can defend to a supplier.
Its companion, How to Find & Verify a Manufacturer in China, starts earlier in the journey: locating real industrial clusters, reading a business licence, verifying a supplier before any money moves, and structuring a pilot order that tests the partnership cheaply.
Future articles will unpack the topics above in the same practical style, starting with how to read an AQL report line by line and when 100% sorting beats re-inspection. Every guide is written by the inspection team behind CGF's 3,000+ QC projects — practitioners who draw the samples, not marketers. If there is a question you would like answered first, write to kelly@cgfiinspection.com; article requests steer the queue, and real inspection documents can be requested through the sample reports library.