Step-by-step guide to importing sofas from China — sourcing, negotiation, quality control, shipping and customs clearance for European importers.
What to inspect before a container leaves the factory: foam density, stitching, compression recovery.
An 8-point framework for vetting Chinese sofa manufacturers — from factory audits to reference checks and production capacity assessment.
Understand what drives MOQ in custom sofa manufacturing — fabric minimums, production batch economics, and how to negotiate workable volumes.
The professionals' due-diligence checklist: ten questions that separate serious manufacturers from trading companies and uncover hidden risks.
A worked example of a European distributor's compressed-sofa import programme — from specification to container economics to retail margin.
