GLOBAL BUYERSCHINA SUPPLIER CHECKS
Start with the exact company name, business scope or supplier description you already have. The free screen helps you separate factory and trading signals in your browser. When the decision needs dated records or a defined evidence boundary, request a scoped China-side check — without turning a database match into supplier approval or a safety guarantee.
BUYING DECISIONS / 01
Do not decode a catalogue of checks. Choose the question holding up your order, see the evidence that can answer it, and keep the final commercial decision with your team.
IDENTITY / BEFORE CONTRACT
Match the Chinese legal name, registration record, contract party and authority chain before you rely on a sales name. This is the China company check people run first — a company search against the China business registry to verify a Chinese company exists, is live, and is the entity on your contract.
Company registration route →CAPABILITY / BEFORE ORDER
Separate a registered business scope from dated, order-specific evidence of people, equipment, process and capacity.
Factory capability route →DOCUMENTS / BEFORE APPROVAL
Check the holder, issuer, scope, validity and product or sample link without treating one logo as blanket approval.
Certificate evidence route →PAYMENT / BEFORE DEPOSIT
Put the registered supplier, contract seller, invoice issuer and beneficiary account into one review before money moves.
Bank account route →VERIFY / I HAVE A SUPPLIER
Use the report menu when you know the records you need: it shows current availability before a source can be selected. Or ask a person to define a dated evidence boundary. This route checks the supplier you bring; it does not choose or replace one.
Build a scoped supplier report →SOURCE / I NEED A PRODUCT
Start at the separate buying desk before any supplier-specific check. The sourcing page states Currawong's seller role, current limits and payment terms before contact. A supplier check never becomes a sourcing offer.
Find a sourcing route →EVIDENCE STANDARD / 02
Trust comes from showing the work: the source consulted, the date checked, the match logic, unresolved gaps and the decision that the evidence cannot make for you.
SOURCE RECORD / CHECKABLE
A completed check identifies what was consulted, what was visible on that date and which company identifier was used. Access failures stay visible instead of becoming a clean result.
Records originate from China's official disclosure system — the National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System, known as GSXT. Live lookups and self-service reports retrieve them through a licensed Chinese business-information platform; the L3 tier adds a manual recheck against the official source, read on the China side because the portal is Chinese-only and refuses requests from outside China — measured from twelve countries, none of which was served a page while a control government host answered all twelve. We name the source and the tier; we do not query, proxy or cache the official portals by automated means.
How the verification desk handles evidence →METHOD / BOUNDED
Not a trust badge or supplier approval. Each finding states what the record supports, what it cannot prove and what still needs buyer, inspection, testing, legal or banking review.
Read the editorial and research policy →THE GAP / 03
Across China's manufacturing regions, many genuine factories run full production lines but no overseas front: no English-speaking sales team, often no export paperwork handled in their own name, and no time for international marketing. They focus on making things, sell through intermediaries, and stay invisible to overseas search.
| Measurement | What it establishes | Frame | Taken |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registered-scope census | 74.6% of certified manufacturers carry import-export wording | 264 companies, whole frame | 8 Aug 2026 |
| Change-log census | 54.9% amended within 12 months; median 39 changes | Same 264 companies | 8 Aug 2026 |
| Official-source availability | Five of eight official hosts did not serve their front page | 8 hosts × 3 requests × 2 user agents | 8 Aug 2026 |
| Check-character strength | USCI catches 100% of single-character errors; VIN 92.5% | 2.9 million injected errors | 9 Aug 2026 |
| Single-result confirmation | 42.5% of name searches return nothing; 50.9% return exactly one row | 106 manufacturers, whole frame | 18 Aug 2026 |
| Delivery-path measurement | 134 of 153 report lines read without waiting for a person | 153-line menu, whole frame | 22 Aug 2026 |
Whatever question you start from, the answer traces back to one of these. Each is a whole frame rather than a sample, and each is dated — because scope wording, registrations and source availability all move. Where a claim would need a measurement we have not taken, the page says so instead of estimating.
So when you search for a "factory", what you find first is often a trading company presenting itself as one — sometimes several layers away from the workshop that actually makes your product. An honest trade partner adds real value: English communication, consolidation, quality checks, logistics. The problem is not the middleman. The problem is not knowing who you are actually buying from.
Currawong starts with the buyer’s question: screen the wording you have, use a commercial data source only when the page shows it is available, or arrange a scoped human public-record check. Future showcase profiles will use the same evidence-first standard: separate facts from claims, disclose sources and dates, and keep known gaps visible. No profile is a guarantee of outcome.
MEASURED / 03B
On 22 August 2026 we queried customs credentials for 45 Chinese manufacturers — every company on the NHTSA vehicle-manufacturer list that resolves to exactly one Chinese entity.
| Status | Companies |
|---|---|
| Holds an import/export credit record of its own | 41 of 45 |
| Holds none — someone else is named on the declaration | 4 of 45 |
Four of these 45 cannot be named as exporter under their own registration, and their products are on US roads regardless. That is the pattern above, appearing in the record: the factory makes; a trading company ships.
One limit worth stating plainly, because it cuts against the point: this cohort is defined by having already reached the United States, so it under-counts the factories described above — the truly invisible ones are not on a US regulator’s list at all, and we have no way to sample them. The 45 are the same cohort used throughout this site, read along different dimensions; the frame is described in the NHTSA manufacturer census.
GUIDES / 04
From first contact to final payment, each guide covers one decision: what document to ask for, how to read it, and what it can and cannot prove.
Browse all buyer guides by order stage → Not sure what the risk is called? Start with a plain-language supplier question → Read China-side verification notes →Search the official registry with the exact Chinese legal name or 18-digit credit code, and match it to your contract and payee.
Five evidence layers from legal entity to this-order proof, before you rely on a factory claim.
Match every document to its legal holder, scope, validity and your actual order.
Put the registered entity, seller, invoice issuer and beneficiary in one evidence chain before money moves.
All guides: L3 human check · Instant screen · Due diligence master · Sample approval · Purchase order · QC plan · Corrective action · During-production · Pre-shipment · Payee match · Australian importers
CONTACT / 05
Verification requests, questions about a result, or anything the guides do not cover — read and answered by a person, not a bot or an autoresponder.
hello@currawongweb.com Message on WhatsApp Request a human check → Include the supplier's exact Chinese name or credit code if you already have it. WhatsApp reaches the same person as the mailbox.These pages are localised and reviewed before publication — raw machine translation is never published without semantic review. The rest of the site is in English.