What We Do — Metier

Sourcing & Vendor Selection

From product idea to approved supplier: factory identification, capability and financial vetting, price negotiation, and sample coordination. You never need to board a plane. Adding the next supplier is the same service run again.

Quality Audits & Inspection

Factory audits, unannounced visits, and a pre-shipment inspection on every order, from a one-pallet first run upward. Our team built its methods in environments certified to ISO 9001, ISO 13485, IATF 16949, and AS9100, and audits suppliers to those standards.

Trader of Record

Place your purchase order with our Hong Kong company and we take ownership of the vendor relationship, the goods, and the delivery commitment. One invoice under Hong Kong commercial law, in your currency. Pricing is open book: the factory invoice, the costs, and our fee, each on its own line. How that works.

Door-to-Door Logistics

Consolidation, freight booking, customs documentation, and tracking through to your dock, with certificates of compliance included in the shipping documents.

Duty & Origin Work

Classification review, origin documentation, and verification of the duty treatment for your destination market before you commit, with candidate origins compared when it matters. Method is described on the sourcing & origin page.

White-Label Partnership

For distributors and brands with their own customers: we handle sourcing through delivery behind your name and on your documents. Your customers never see us. Orders can move from your store or ERP straight to us — see how we work.

WHERE WE DIFFER · OPEN BOOK PRICING

You see the factory invoice and our fee

We buy from the factory and sell to you. You see the factory invoice, the freight cost, the inspection cost, and what we charge on top. Our fee is agreed before the order goes in, and it sits on your invoice as its own line.

Plenty of sourcing agents earn a second margin from the factory that the buyer never sees. Some mark up the freight. We don't do either, and you can check that against the documents that come with your order.

One invoice, three lines

The factory invoice, the costs, and our fee. Nothing folded into a unit price.

Fee agreed up front

Set before the order goes in. No hidden factory commission, no marked-up freight.

First sale ready

Because you can see the factory price, paying US duty on it becomes available where your goods qualify.

WHERE WE DIFFER · BUYING INSIDE CHINA

We buy as a Chinese company

Plenty of what you find on the export marketplaces is being resold. A listing that says manufacturer is often a trading company buying from the same factory you were trying to reach, and the price carries that extra layer. The seller underneath has no export licence, can't take a foreign payment, and won't ship overseas: from outside China there's no way through.

We buy on the domestic market where those sellers actually operate. In Mandarin, paid through Chinese banking, delivered to our own address in Dongguan.

Domestic buying

We purchase where the real makers sell, past the marketplace resellers and their margin.

The export route

China has an export channel built for small quantities from suppliers who can't invoice for export. We use it.

Both routes priced

Where a supplier can invoice properly we buy that way instead. We show you both, and sometimes there's no saving at all.

WHERE WE DIFFER · CONSOLIDATION & STOCK

One shipment instead of five

Once you're buying from more than one supplier, the shipping maths turns against you. Small LCL shipments carry minimum charges whatever the volume, and every separate shipment means another customs entry and another set of broker fees.

The alternative is to have your suppliers deliver to us in China. We set up a receiving point for your programme, check the goods as they arrive, and send everything out together when the shipment makes sense.

One shipment, one entry

Goods travel together, past the LCL minimums and the per-entry broker fees.

Stock held in China

We can hold goods and release them as you need, keeping your cash in your business rather than in a warehouse.

Only when it pays

We tell you when your volume makes this worth paying for. Below that, ship direct and keep it simple.

WHERE WE DIFFER · SENSITIVE PROGRAMS

When no single factory should see the whole product

Some products carry designs worth protecting. For those, Metier splits production across vendors and manages final assembly, kitting, and processing itself. Each supplier makes a component; only we hold the complete picture.

Consolidated goods ship export-ready, with the same inspection and documentation as any other Metier order.

Split Production

Components sourced from separate vendors, each working to its own drawing.

Metier-Managed Assembly & Kitting

Final assembly, kitting, and packaging run under our supervision from start to finish.

Export-Ready Consolidation

Inspected, documented, and shipped as one order with one invoice.

Sourcing, quality, trading, and logistics under one contract

You see the factory invoice and our fee

We buy as a Chinese company

One shipment instead of five

When no single factory should see the whole product

Tell us what you need to import.