Practical guides on buying custom machined parts from China: supplier vetting, quoting, payment terms, shipping and customs.
FOB is the usual default for machined parts from China, but DDP quotes often hide destination charges and import VAT. Here is how each Incoterm allocates risk, and how to build a landed cost you can actually plan against.
A China CNC quote is six cost blocks stacked together, not one number with margin inside. Here is what each block contains, why identical drawings get quotes three times apart, and the six places buyers overpay.
Five signals you can verify from a desk, three you can only learn from a trial order, and the red flags that separate a factory from a reseller.
The full process of importing CNC machined parts from China: quoting, samples, payment risk, shipping terms and customs documents, with realistic timelines.