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🔒 PaidSupplier Decision ReportBuyer-specific PDF — supplier landscape, weighted shortlist, EU-risk screening, evidence gaps and a clear recommendation.
🔒 PaidCurated Supplier ShortlistCurated supplier records with contact details, commercial fields, evidence status, and factory-media references where available.
🔒 PaidEU-Readiness Score™A brief-specific comparison across compliance evidence, capacity, communication, and shipping readiness — with unknowns kept visible.
🔒 PaidAI Supplier FinderSearch curated supplier records in natural language. "Stainless steel pet bowls, FSC packaging, ≤500 MOQ." Treat results as research candidates until evidence is checked.
🔒 PaidAI Sourcing PlannerPlan your next 6 months — product launches, sample rounds, CNY-aware ordering, container scheduling. AI-assisted.
🔒 PaidSourcing Request BriefsSubmit a product, we run the RFQ, vet candidates, and report back with quotes + EU-readiness verdicts. Concierge.
🔒 PaidSample & Cost TrackerTrack live samples, landed costs, and supplier responses across active sourcing projects in one timeline.
🔒 PaidCompliance Pre-ScreeningWe pre-vet your HS codes against GPSR, PPWR, CBAM and active anti-dumping cases — before you place the order.
🔒 PaidAnalyst Direct AccessIn-portal inbox with the SinoSource team. Ask follow-up questions on suppliers, regs, or specific products.
Ready for the real intelligence?
The free tools cover the math. Paid plans add a buyer-specific decision report: compared candidates, cited evidence, open gaps, and the checks still required before committing.
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Welcome,
Get started with your workspace
Everything here answers one question: is this China purchase safe, compliant and worth it? This guide shows the workflow that gets you there fastest.
The 10-minute orientation
Your workspace is organized around a sourcing decision: find candidates, collect evidence, watch the risks, then decide. The Overview is your cockpit — it surfaces what needs attention today. The panels below are where the work happens. You do not need to use everything; most importers live in five of them.
1
Overview — start every session here
Your command center: top supplier candidates, evidence gaps, changed risks, deadlines and open questions. An empty card means no record has been added yet; it never means a risk has been cleared.
2
Projects — tell us what you are buying
Create a sourcing request or project with your product, target price, MOQ and destination market. Everything else in the workspace (monitoring, recalls, reports) keys off this brief.
3
Suppliers — build the evidence file
Score each supplier on communication, quality, speed and pricing. Attach notes and evidence (certificates, audit reports, quotes). Unknowns stay visible on purpose — an unverified claim is never scored as a pass.
4
Monitoring — let the watchdog work
Add focused category, supplier-name or keyword watches. Every day we check the EU Safety Gate feed; a title or category match lands in your alerts for verification.
5
Reports — the decision, in writing
Your reports turn the evidence into a clear buy / negotiate / walk-away recommendation with the reasoning attached. This is what you show a colleague or your board before committing money.
6
Documents — one vault per deal
Quotes, certificates and contracts live here, tied to the supplier they belong to. When a deadline or audit comes, you will not be digging through email threads.
Working faster
Toolbox — specialized tools stay in one searchable place, grouped by the job they help you complete.
Dark / light mode — the theme toggle sits in the top bar; your choice is remembered per device.
On your phone — the same workspace adapts to mobile; use the menu button for navigation. The native app adds push alerts for watchdog hits.
Secure your account — Account → security lets you change your password and review signed-in devices.
Stuck? — the Help panel answers common questions, and every answer from our team lands in your Inbox.
Client intelligence library
Chinese Sourcing Knowledge
Explore where China’s manufacturing systems concentrate, then learn the commercial, communication and EU-import disciplines that turn a supplier lead into a defensible decision.
9 manufacturing systems12 field lessonsReviewed 25 Aug 2026
CN Intel
Your sourcing brief
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Matching the reviewed cluster profiles to your saved products and priorities.
◎A commercial cluster map—not an administrative or boundary map. Cost labels show relative operating pressure, never a product quote. Population is rounded context. Every factory, legal entity, certificate and current obligation still requires product-specific verification.
Interactive atlas
Manufacturing systems
Change the lens, then hover, focus or select a cluster. The list below provides the same controls without relying on the graphic.
Intelligence lens
2024 official-statistics baseline
ClusterSea gatewayInland hub
Cluster comparison
Select two or three regions
Use “Add to comparison” in any profile to expose the commercial trade-offs side by side.
◇Practical orientation—not legal, customs or inspection advice. Lessons teach the decision sequence and link directly to the part of your SinoSource workspace where the work is recorded. Re-check official sources for the exact product and date.
Field curriculum
From first search to monitored import
Twelve short modules. Each ends with a practical checkpoint and can create an action in your workspace. Progress follows your signed-in account across devices.
Your progress0 of 12 complete
Saved to your workspace
Applied outputsLessons you have turned into workspace actions
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Method, source register and limits
Specialist workspace
Toolbox
Open the focused tool for the job in front of you. Your core decision remains in Overview; these tools support it.
Start with the job
What are you trying to do?
Choose an outcome to reveal only the tools that help complete it.
Your workspace
Preferred tools
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01
Supplier research & qualification
5 tools · discover, investigate and maintain the supplier record
02
Commercial planning & negotiation
5 tools · turn a brief into comparable commercial offers
03
Cost & compliance
5 tools · model economics and maintain verified inputs
04
Delivery & monitoring
2 tools · follow physical execution and relevant alerts
No matching toolTry a supplier, cost, compliance, monitoring or document task.
Workspace utilities
Records, guidance and support
Useful destinations that support the workspace, kept separate from decision tools.
Checking your saved scope, analyst work and published reports.
1ScopeDetails required
2AnalysisEvidence reviewed
3DecisionReport published
Your workspace
Preferred tools
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—Supplier records
—Open evidence items
—Monitored changes
—Published reports
Scope
Research
Shortlist
Evidence
Samples
Decision
Primary deliverable
Supplier decision report
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Top candidates
Agency fit when relevant
Evidence gaps
Monitoring baseline & changes
Deadlines
Client questions
Managed 90-day execution
Outreach, replies, evidence, quotes, samples and handover
Decision reportBuyer-specific shortlist and recommendationMonitoringPriority suppliers and material risk changesNews TrackerSource-linked trade and regulatory contextAnalyst accessOne written request each month
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Here's your sourcing snapshot.
Sourcing Tools
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My Reports
Download your private supplier decision reports, agency-fit assessments where relevant, and refreshed monitoring briefs.
✅ Getting started
Inbox
Research briefs and messages from your SinoSource analyst.
Monitoring
Source-linked regulatory, trade, tariff, and China–EU supply-chain developments—kept separate from SinoSource guides.
Open Monitoring to load reviewed SinoSource guides and clearly labelled third-party signals.
Projects
Define an active sourcing decision, request research, and keep open client questions visible.
My Data
The more you tell us, the sharper your AI tools, decision report and monitoring get. This is your sourcing knowledge base — we use it to tailor every result to your business.
Your business
How you source
Standards & priorities
Your data feeds the AI Supplier Finder, Lookup, Sourcing Planner, decision report and monitoring — so everything is tailored to your business. You can update it any time.
My Profile & Plan
Your account details and subscription information.
Your data
Everything we hold about your sourcing work — watches, quotes, cost entries, compliance passports, documents and alerts — as one JSON file. Yours, whenever you want it.
AI Sourcing Planner
Describe what you want to source and get a custom 90-day action plan: ideal supplier regions, MOQ benchmarks, certifications to request, and the risks to watch before you commit.
Takes ~15 seconds → Powered by SinoSource's Custom AI Agent System
Analysing your niche…
Cross-referencing EU regulations and Chinese supplier data
Included in Essential and Managed — AI Sourcing Planner
Stop sourcing blind. Get a custom 90-day plan.
Tell our AI what you want to source, where you're selling, and your volume. It cross-references EU regulations with Chinese supplier databases and builds you a step-by-step sourcing roadmap → in under 20 seconds.
Ideal supplier regions
Pinpoints exactly where in China to source your category, ranked by EU compliance track record.
Certifications to request
Exact documents and test reports to demand from suppliers before you place an order.
Risks flagged upfront
Common traps in your category → Safety Gate flags, PPWR issues, REACH substances → surfaced before you commit.
90-day action timeline
Month-by-month milestones from first supplier contact to first EU shipment.
Essential: €199 founding activation, then €89/month All portal tools are included
What the plan covers
Market intelligence → average FOB price bands and MOQ benchmarks for your exact niche
Regulatory overview — the 3–5 EU rules most likely to affect your category right now
Supplier shortlisting criteria → what to screen for before you even send your first message
First-shipment checklist → documents, testing, labelling, and importer-of-record setup
Month 2 & 3 milestones → so you know exactly what comes after the first order lands
EU Duty Risk Assistant
Generate a non-binding classification candidate, missing-information questions, and prompts for an official EU check.
This AI does not query live TARIC and does not return a duty rate. Verify the exact code, origin, producer or additional code, and import date in official TARIC.
Generating a classification candidate…
Preparing questions and official verification steps
Rate status
VAT
Trade-defence measures
Compliance prompts
CBAM screen
What to clarify before classification
Decision rule: no rate from this screen enters a landed-cost model. Verify it in TARIC or obtain Binding Tariff Information.
Supplier Vetting Checklist
Generate a niche-specific checklist of exactly what to verify before placing an order. Saved automatically as you check items off.
Takes ~8 seconds → Tailored to your niche and EU compliance requirements.
Analysing your niche…
Building your supplier vetting checklist
Quote Analyzer
Factories quote on different Incoterms, currencies and payment terms. Normalise them to
one landed cost per unit at your real order quantity — the ranking often changes.
Your order
Supplier
Term
Quoted
Freight legs
Duty
Tooling
Payment
Landed
vs best
Freight, origin charges and duty are your figures, not ours — a number we
invented could change which supplier wins. Get freight from your forwarder and the duty rate
from a TARIC lookup for your commodity code, origin and import date.
Keep this against a supplierSaved to that supplier's history with today's date, so the next person to
open the record can see what was compared and why.
Should-Cost
Build the price up from material, labour, machine time, overhead and margin, then see how
far a real quote sits from it and what that gap is worth as a negotiating position.
Keep this against a supplierSaved to that supplier's history with today's date, so the next person to
open the record can see what was compared and why.
Duty & VAT Scenario
Use a duty rate you already verified in TARIC to model a simple FOB-based scenario. This is not a full customs-valuation or tax calculation.
No AI or live TARIC lookup is performed. This scenario uses FOB as the calculation base and excludes freight, insurance, customs-valuation adjustments, excise, trade-defence complexity, CBAM and VAT recovery. Confirm the correct basis and tax treatment with qualified customs and tax advisers.
Calculating your scenario…
Using the rate and VAT assumption you entered
Scenario total
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FOB value ( units — )€
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WEEE levy (estimated)€
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Next step:
Brief Archive
Search and revisit every sourcing report we've delivered. The longer you're subscribed, the more valuable this becomes.
RFQ Generator
Fill in the details below and get a professional Request for Quotation email — ready to send directly to any Chinese supplier.
EU certifications required → auto-detected, adjust as needed
Ready to send
Next step:
Suppliers
Your supplier workspace: move candidates through the decision, keep contacts and history together, and review performance without duplicating records.
EU Regulation Tracker
Every regulation that affects your imports → status, deadlines, and exactly what action to take. Filter by product category.
Full EU regulation catalogue
In force Coming soon Prepare now
Sourcing Goals
Track what you're working towards this sourcing cycle. Set goals, mark them done, stay on track.
Add a new goal
Examples: "Find 3 shortlisted kitchen suppliers", "Submit RFQ to Hangzhou Packaging", "Review PPWR compliance before August".
Help & feedback
Ask us anything — sourcing, a supplier you are unsure about, an EU rule you cannot pin down, or how something here works.
Rather talk it through?Book a 20-minute call with the founder. Free on every plan, no obligation, and useful even if you are only weighing up whether this is worth paying for.
Generate a starting list of candidate Chinese manufacturers for a product description.
It is a research aid, not a shortlist — every name it returns still needs the evidence
checks a decision report performs before you contact anyone.
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Describe what you are buying. The more specific the description, the
more useful the candidates.
Agent dispatched…
Scanning Chinese manufacturing clusters
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Score
Supplier Intelligence Report
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Agent's Tip
🌍 Best Sourcing Regions
🏭 Supplier Intelligence
🛡️ Compliance Snapshot
🔍 Search Terms
Included in Essential and Managed — Supplier Finder
Build a focused manufacturer research list without starting from a blank page.
Generate an initial manufacturer research list with MOQ, price, certification and lead-time fields. Treat every result as a lead until SinoSource or your team verifies the supporting evidence.
→ 3–5 research candidates per search, clearly marked for follow-up verification
Enter a Chinese sourcing company or manufacturer name to get AI-generated contact details, niche, certifications, and red flags.
Works best with full company names. Results are AI-generated estimates → always verify before contacting.
Searching intelligence database…
Cross-referencing known Chinese exporters
Phone
Email
WeChat ID
Website
Address
Company Profile
Products
Founded
Employees
MOQ
Trade Terms
Certifications
📝 Analyst Notes
🚩 Red Flags
AI-generated — always verify independently
AI-generated — verify before contacting.
Contact details, WeChat IDs and addresses are estimated from training data, not live sources. Cross-check on
1688.com,
Made-in-China
or the company's own website before reaching out. WeChat IDs in particular may be inaccurate.
Document Vault
Reports, contracts, and files shared with you by SinoSource. Yours to keep, download any time.
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When your analyst uploads reports, contracts, or reference files they'll appear here for secure download.
Supplier Watchlist
Suppliers you've saved from the Supplier Lookup tool. Your shortlist, stored securely in the cloud.
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Use the Supplier Lookup tool, look up a supplier and click 💾 Save result to add them here.
Refer & Earn
Share SinoSource with EU importers you know. Earn 20% commission on their first 3 months.
Compliance Center
Track compliance for every product. Stay ahead of EU regulations.
Product compliance passports track required certifications and document status.
Download curated templates for your sourcing workflow.
Logistics workspace
Samples & shipments
Keep the commercial record, route and delivery evidence together. Check a carrier on demand without allowing third-party data to silently rewrite your reviewed workspace status.
Tracked—samples and shipmentsMoving—in transit or customsNeeds attention—late, cancelled or undatedCompleted—received or delivered↻Live carrier lookupOptional connector · no key saved
Bring your own free provider allowance
Use 17TRACK for ongoing tracking or Ship24 for an occasional one-off lookup. Your key is held only in this active tab, sent directly to SinoSource for the requested lookup, and never saved to your account, database or browser storage.
Provider allowances reviewed 27 August 2026. Provider terms and limits can change.
Two separate truths: your workspace status is the reviewed commercial record; live carrier results are a temporary third-party reference. SinoSource never merges them automatically.
In transit · seaIn transit · airDelivered / receivedCustomsMap position is an estimate from the saved departure and arrival dates—not live GPS.
Cost Tracker
Save landed cost estimates and compare with actual spend. Learn from every shipment.
Track estimated vs. actual costs per product.
Product-safety monitoring
Watchdog
Track product categories, supplier names or distinctive terms against the official EU Safety Gate feed. Review every match before it changes a sourcing decision.
Use a narrow watch that you can investigate when it matches.
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Review matched notices
Start with the official notice, then confirm whether its product and operator are actually relevant.
How Watchdog matching works View method
Category
Matches the normalized Safety Gate category exactly.
Supplier name
Looks for the entered name in the notice title. Confirm the legal entity before acting.
Keyword
Looks for the term in the notice title. Use distinctive product or hazard language.
Separate utilityDirectional market contextQuote contribution and non-normalized niche indicatorsOpen benchmark lab
Price figures are not shown as a comparable benchmark until currency, unit and pack size are normalized. MOQ and directory-record indicators remain directional.
Contribute a quote
Your supplier name stays private; aggregate fields may contribute to future normalized benchmarks.
Available niche indicators
Only categories with a usable MOQ, directory score or sample are shown.
Alerts
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Private client setupStep 1 of 3
Your first sourcing decision
Set the scope for your first decision.
Two minutes now makes the report and monitoring specific to your business.
1
Lock the briefProduct, market and commercial constraints
2
Build the evidenceCandidates, documents, risks and unknowns
3
Publish the decisionShortlist, reasoning and next action
No supplier, score or risk state is generated from assumptions. Missing information stays visibly missing.
This becomes the starting context for your report. You can refine every field later.
Saved to your private client profile. Add detailed targets, certifications and sourcing constraints later in My Data.
