What does Clacta check on a Chinese supplier?
Four things, read from registers and official records: who the company is, whether it is operating and is a factory or a trader, whether its certificates are in force, and whether a court or an authority has recorded anything against it. Each check answers one question you have before an order. Each line names its source, and the report carries its date.
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1. Identity: is it the company you think it is?
What we check: the company's registered Chinese legal name, its Unified Social Credit Code, the English name it uses, and its registration status.
What it is for: the quote, the contract and the certificates should all point to one registered company. If they don't, you see it before you pay.
2. Standing: is it operating, and is it a factory or a trader?
What we check: whether the company is operating today, and four records that show whether it is a factory or a trader: the factory named on its certificates, a production site on an official register, its registered business scope, and the staff it insures.
What it is for: you know who will make your order. Where the records don't agree, the card tells you what to ask.
3. Certificates: are they in force?
What we check: the certificates China's national certification register holds under the company's name, and the TÜV, SGS and IECEE registers: in force, suspended or withdrawn, with validity and the accreditation body the register records.
What it is for: a certificate PDF shows the day it was issued. The register shows where it stands when we read it. When a certificate is suspended, the register does not say why, so the report gives you the question to ask the supplier.
4. Risk: is anything on the record against it?
What we check: the risk registers, including the dishonest-debtor and judgment-debtor registers, the business-abnormality directory, the serious-violation list, administrative, environmental and tax penalties, the two customs lists, international sanctions, forced-labour listings and court records.
What it is for: before you pay a deposit, you see what a court or an authority has recorded against the company. A report shows the record on the day it was captured, so check again before each new order.
What you see without an account, with a free account, and in a Deep Check
| check | without an account | free account | Deep Check |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | yes | yes | yes |
| Standing: factory or trader | yes | yes | yes |
| Certificates | how many, by status | each certificate: number, status, validity, and the accreditation body where China's register records one | yes |
| Risk | the list of registers checked (names only) | the list of registers checked (names only) | the result of each register, line by line |
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Sources
From the authorities that make them: China's business register (market regulation authorities), the courts, the national certification authority (CNCA) and the certification bodies' own registers, customs, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the tax authorities, and the official sanctions lists. What the supplier says about itself is shown as its own statement, never as a record.
How we read these records, and the words we use on every line: How we check.
Cross-check, Clacta.