How to Find Fair Suppliers Without Going to China

In the trade industry, almost everyone has their eyes on China, many businessmen and professionals prefer to import from China instead of other countries, and Canton Fair is where most of them rely on. Of course, besides the Canton Fair there are a huge amount of trade import & export fairs across China during the year, located in many different cities. Therefore, buyers and professionals prefer to attend some exhibitions related to their specific area.

Upper view of Canton Fair complex

Overseas businessmen and entrepreneurs have a strong interest to import from China, but almost all of them fear that after taking the long flight, facing cultural differences, language barrier, overcoming the jetlag and having invested in travel expenses; They may not find the suitable supplier or manufacturer for their product. Taking a trip to China only for the Canton fair is already a long ride. Canton fair is divided into 3 phases composed of 5 days, fact which makes the exhibition duration 3 weeks long, so due to personal reasons buyers tend to miss it, but at the same time they don’t want to wait longer to start business with Chinese manufacturers.

Who have never been in such situation?

If you are working in international trade and have plans to import from China, but you want to be away from the trouble of sourcing manufacturers in Canton fair or any other exhibitions, we present below some solutions that allows you to find information about the exhibitors in those fairs.





Fair Suppliers and Manufacturers Directories




One of the most suitable solutions for finding the manufacturers, suppliers and companies attending the Canton Fair and other exhibitions in China is to find their official website and locate their exhibitor directory.

View of the main Hall of Canton Fair Complex

As an example: in the case of the China International Furniture Fair (CIFF), if you go to their website (www.ciff-gz.com) you will be able to see their exhibitor list on the “Exhibitor” tab. For the Canton Fair, you can check their official website (www.cantonfair.org.cn) and explore their exhibitor list in the “Exhibitor & Products” area located in the Buyer tab, the suppliers and manufacturers will be divided per phase. Buyers and trading professionals who want to import from China may look for the contacts of these manufacturers in the fair’s official site, but in order to see which products they are offering, they have to establish contact to each one of them, which could take a lot of time and work, hence the following solution can be more convenient.




E-Cantonfair.com



Missing the Canton Fair is not a big issue once you know about e-cantonfair.com, which is its official B2B website. Each supplier inside the platform have a profile page where they show their products with pictures, have full company information and allows you to make an inquiry or contact the him for more questions.

e-cantonfair.com event page

On the search results you can also filter the manufacturers which are exhibitors from the fair and those which attended the last fair. Additionally, you can ensure that the manufacturer is verified once you check how many times they have attended the Canton Fair in their profile page.


Nowadays, importing from China is not a big obstacle as before, business to business (B2B) platforms are giving enough confidence to many overseas businessmen to negotiate and make deals with many Chinese suppliers.