China: Comprar

Industrial and Manufacturing Profile

Type of Production: Industry accounts for 49% of the Chinese GDP (including 6% of the construction sector). Principal industries in China are mining industry (world leader in reserves of tungsten , molybdenum and titanium), the coal industry (world leader in coal production and consumption), metallurgical, petrochemical, naval (18% of worldwide production, 3rd world producer), cars (6.6% of the GDP), energy (second producer in electrical energy). China is also the 1st world producer of electric household appliances products (1/3 of the worldwide production), 3rd producer in data-processing products (2nd for the PC), the 1st world producer of toys with 70% of worldwide production, 1st world producer of shoes and finally the 1st producer and exporter country of textile.

Manufacturers Associations of the Main Industries: 113 professional associations listed for China.

Original Equipment Manufacturers: Chinse OEM's are in automobile industry aeronautics industry, mobil phone industry and laptops. Many of these OEM are at the same time, ODM's.
Original Design Manufacturers: The ODM in China specializes in the manufacture of electronic products with a cost advantage. Certain ODM are well internationally established OEM. Several startup are specialized in wireless, digital products or instrumentation. Some examples are: China Electronics Corp., Panda Electronics, Shinko Electronics.
Subcontractors: China is one of the 3 great centers of international subcontracting. Subcontracting is particularly developed in China in the textile and shoe industry, in the mechanical engineering and machinery industry. China has cheap labour, university graduates speaking foreign languages and a telecommunication network and an ever expanding Internet.
Useful Resources: Chinese sourcing summit

Multi-sector Directories: All.biz - China - Directory of companies in China.
Business-China.com - China's web search engine and directory in multiple languages, focused on businesses.
China and Taiwan Products Online - Directory of Taiwanese and Chinese manufacturers.
China Commodity Net - Database lists covering business information on over 600,000 Chinese enterprises and 2.200,000 products.
China Info - Find a business in China.
InfoDriveIndia Business Directory - Find actual buyers and suppliers from three countries. Export-import customs data.
Made-in-China - Directory of Chinese suppliers.
Nepal Home Page - Nepal's Yellow Pages.
USCEA Directory - Chinese company members of the US-China Exchange Association.
World Importers Net - Directory of suppliers and importers.

To search directories by industry in China, check out our service Directorios en línea.

To go further, check out our service Mercados digitales.

Trade Agencies and Their Representations Abroad: Chamber of commerce for import and export of light industrial products and arts and crafts (CCCLA)
Chamber of commerce for import and export of minerals, metals and chemical products (CCCMC)
Chamber of commerce for import and export of food products, country products and animal products (CFNA)
Chamber of commerce for import and export of textiles (CCCT)
Chinese agencies of assisstance to investment abroad
Fairs and Trade Shows: Trade fairs en China

To go further, check out our service Ferias comerciales.

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Restrictions: Printed matter, manuscripts, films, photographs, audio cassettes, VCDs, data-processing storage media, etc considered harmful for national security; antiquities and other cultural articles created before 1949; rare and endangered animals and/or plants including their specimens and seeds, the natural bezoars, the musk, platinum, electronic products or machines used, bones of tiger, horns of rhinoceros, ivory, products made by prisoners, medicinal plants and stamps more than 100 years old cannot be exported.
Export Taxes: No export tax. But the VAT (17%) nonrefundable in the event of export, can however be regarded as export tax.
Export Clearance: Formalities are carried out by the import/export company.
In general, the supplier provides:

-         invoice
-         packing list
-         certificate of origin
-         Fumigation
-         Customs declaration
Necessary Declaration: - Country of origin
- Value and description of the merchandise
- Composition of the merchandise
- Finished/semi-finished
- Name/contacts of the supplier
- Destination of product
- Recipient
- HS code

Quality Control Organizations: CIS China Inspection Services
Quality control organizations

Main Useful Means of Transport: The largest port is Shanghaï, with an annual ocean freight of 250 million tonnes. Each year, Chinese ports dispatch 5.6 billion tons of goods and 93 million of containers.
Goods transport by road represents approximately 12 billion tons of freight. Road transport accounts for 13% of cargo in China.
Air transport represents approximately 2.2 million tons of freight of merchandises.
Railroads are the principal mode of transport and the cheapest solution for long distance freight. Each year, railroads provide the transport of 1,500 billion tons kilometers of goods.

Ports: Shanghai port
Dalian port
Tianjin port
Guangzhou port
Xiamen port
Transport Professionals: Gefco China
Sinotech International Transportation Co., Ltd.
Zhejiang Shipping Group
China Shipping Group
Government Transport Organizations: Ministry of Transports

Airports: Beijing airport
Dalian airport
Shanghaï airport
Chengdu airport
Guangzhou airport
Shenzhen airport
Transport Professionals: Air China
China Airlines
China Southern Airlines
Shanghai Airlines
Government Transport Organizations: Ministry of Transports

Transport Professionals: Guangshen Railway Company
China Railway Tielong Container Logistics Co., Ltd
Daqin Railway Co., Ltd
Government Transport Organizations: Ministry of Railways

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