Sourcing & supply chain company · China → Europe and the UAE · since 2018
We source products, verify suppliers, negotiate prices, audit factories, monitor production, inspect quality before shipment and handle freight and customs — all the way into the European Union, on our own Latvian company with EU VAT and EORI.
Not a menu of packages — the actual work of buying something in China and getting it onto your shelf, legally.
Look at who you can actually hire to buy things in China, and you find two separate industries that never meet.
Industry one
They find factories, negotiate and inspect. Useful work. But they are registered in Shenzhen or Hong Kong, so they cannot be your importer of record in the EU and cannot be your responsible person. Their job ends when the container sails.
Industry two
They sell you an EU address to print on the packaging, typically for a few hundred euros a year. Also useful. But they never see the goods, never visit the factory and have no view of whether what is in the box matches the file.
What is missing
The goods and the legal responsibility for them belong together. Split across two vendors, every problem lands in the gap between them — and the gap is yours.
The difference is not the fee. It is what you are left holding when something goes wrong.
We are not a freight company and not an agency. We are a sourcing and supply chain partner that takes on China in full — and, if you want it, the European end of the transaction as well.
Consumer goods, industrial supply and everything a project needs in between — as stock products or made to your own specification.
01Components, small appliances, gadgets, accessories
02Skincare, fragrance, salon equipment, private label
03Clothing, footwear, fabrics, trims, workwear
04Machines, tooling, spare parts, production lines
05Furniture, lighting, decor, contract interiors
06Housewares, tools, garden, lighting
07Fixings, sanitary ware, electrical, finishes
08Parts, accessories, tyres, car care
Your category is not on the list? That list is what comes up most often, not a limit. Describe the product and we will tell you whether we can source it properly — or say plainly that we cannot.
Describe your productBoth are real, both are used, and the choice changes your VAT position and where liability sits. We agree it before production starts, not at the port.
Goods enter the EU on SIA DEXTRO
We clear the goods on our own EU EORI, pay import duty and VAT, and sell to you inside the Union. For you it becomes a domestic purchase from an EU company with an EU invoice.
You clear on your own EORI
You stay the importer of record and keep full control of customs and VAT recovery. We take the entire China side: sourcing, inspection, consolidation, export documents and freight.
Regulation (EU) 2023/988 · GPSR
Since 13 December 2024, every consumer product placed on the EU market must have a responsible person established in the Union. Without one, the product cannot legally be placed on the market at all.
Take the whole chain, or only the link you are missing.
We would rather run two routes well than claim the whole map.
Europe · EU member states
Into the European Union
Sea freight to Northern European and Baltic ports, rail from China to Europe, air for what cannot wait. Customs entry on our Latvian entity or on yours, plus the compliance obligations that come with placing goods on the EU market.
Middle East · Dubai · Abu Dhabi · Sharjah
Into the UAE
Sea freight into Jebel Ali and air into Dubai, paid directly to our Chinese company in USD or CNY. Hospitality, retail, fit-out and e-commerce — including own-brand production rather than reselling what everyone else has.
STEP 1
What the product is, what volumes, where it lands — and who acts as importer. That last question is settled first, because it changes the price.
STEP 2
We shortlist factories that genuinely make the product, verify them in the Chinese register and come back with real numbers, not marketplace listings.
STEP 3
A reference sample and a written specification are agreed and fixed. Every later batch is checked against that document, not against memory.
STEP 4
We follow the run, take the batch onto our warehouse, check it against the specification and reject what fails — in China, where the factory still pays for it.
STEP 5
Labelling, packing and paperwork prepared before departure, then the mode of transport that fits the deadline rather than the one that fits our margin.
STEP 6
Entry into the EU or the UAE under the structure agreed in step one, and delivery to your address with a complete document set.
Before anyone transfers money abroad they should be able to verify who is on the other side. Both of our entities are in public registers — the numbers are below, please check them.
A supplier. We buy the goods in China on our own account and sell them to you under a supply contract, which means the responsibility for quality, quantity and documents sits with us rather than with a factory you have never met. We can also work on an agency basis when you already have a supplier and only need control and logistics in China.
Either party, and we agree it before anything ships. Our Latvian company SIA DEXTRO holds a valid EU VAT number and EORI, so it can clear the goods and sell to you inside the EU. Alternatively you import on your own EORI and we handle everything on the China side. The two structures have different VAT and liability consequences, so it is worth deciding early.
Yes. Regulation (EU) 2023/988 has applied since 13 December 2024 and requires every consumer product placed on the EU market to have a responsible person established in the Union. When we import, that role is ours by default. We can also take it on for goods you import yourself, provided the technical documentation exists and we have reviewed it.
Yes — our own warehouses and staff in Guangzhou and Yiwu, plus a Chinese company, Hainan Silent International Trade Co., Ltd, registered in Sanya and verifiable in the Chinese state register by its USCC. This is the difference that matters: a batch can be opened, checked, re-packed, re-labelled or rejected while it is still in China and the factory still has to answer for it.
There is no published minimum. What matters is whether the project makes sense for both sides, and that depends on the product, not on a number in a price list. Describe what you need and we will say plainly whether we are the right partner for it.
We quote lead times per shipment and put them in the contract, rather than publishing a number. Real transit depends on production queues at the factory, consolidation, the mode of transport, customs clearance and the final leg. The spread between a good run and a bad one on the same route is weeks, and pretending otherwise is how schedules get broken.
Yes. Every supplier is first checked against the Chinese state register by its USCC, and for larger or regulated projects we visit: production capability, working conditions, and whether the certificates on the wall actually belong to that company. An audit report with photographs is delivered before you commit to production.
That is a large part of the value. We negotiate in Chinese, on the Chinese market, against comparable quotes from several manufacturers for the same written specification. A foreign buyer asking in English almost always sees a different opening price than a local buyer asking in Mandarin.
Yes — either an existing platform adapted to your specification, or development from a brief. We will tell you honestly which of the two your idea actually needs, because changing a mould costs a great deal more than changing a colour.
Both. OEM is your design manufactured to your specification; ODM is an existing design adapted and branded for you. We handle factory selection, samples with your branding, a pilot run and then series production with consistency checks between batches.
Yes, and we recommend it before technical drawings or formulations change hands. We also raise the points that a plain NDA does not cover: who owns the tooling you pay for, and whether the factory may sell your design to anyone else.
Yes. During-production inspection catches a systemic fault while there is still time to correct it, rather than at the end when the only options are rework or rejection. For a first run with a new factory we usually recommend it.
Yes, and it is one of the more useful things we do. Goods from different factories come into our warehouse in Guangzhou or Yiwu, are checked, then ship as one consignment — one set of documents, one customs entry, and often a full container instead of several part loads.
Yes, where it makes sense. Under DDP we clear the goods into the EU on our own EORI, pay duty and import VAT, and deliver to your address — you receive a domestic purchase from an EU company. Whether DDP or DAP is better for you depends on your VAT position, and we will say which we think fits.
We check what your product category requires before the order is placed, and obtain the manufacturer's documentation — declarations of conformity, test reports, certificates of origin. Where accredited laboratory testing is needed we arrange it rather than pretend an inspection replaces it.
Yes, at both ends. Export clearance in China is ours in every case. At the EU end you choose: we clear the goods on our own EORI as importer of record, or you clear on yours and we supply the documentation you need.
Describe the product and the volume. We come back with a workable structure, a quote including landed cost, and an honest lead time — or with the reasons we would not take it on.