By Timothy Adler on Small Business – Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
For the UK, the desire to import goods from China is vast. China was the joint-first biggest single country that the UK imports from, along with Germany, accounting for 12 per cent of all UK imports.
Find a supplier in China
If you’re just starting up with a small order and you don’t want to go all the way to China to a trade fair, you can find online suppliers first. Three well-known ones are: Aliexpress, Alibaba, and Banggood.
Aliexpress
This retail portal, which is owned by Alibaba, is suitable for dropshippers who want to start buying from China. Hangzhou-based Alibaba group owns the website. It launched as a B2C website but most of its customers buy lots of between 10 and 50 pieces.
Alibaba
China’s biggest online e-commerce company and world’s largest B2B website listing suppliers in China.
Banggood
Banggood has more than 20 categories for Chinese goods with 200,000 products listed and offers free shipping on some orders with warehouses in the UK, France, the US and Australia. It accepts all major payments including Paypal.
However, if you have experience in importing goods from China to the UK and you want to