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About Laikan

Twenty years of buying, arguing and shipping

Laikan started in Guangzhou in 2004 as a trading desk. What we sell now is the operational half that an importer cannot build remotely: people who walk into the factory, read the Chinese contract, and know which supplier quietly changed the resin between the sample and the bulk run.

Meeting table with product samples and folders in a Guangzhou trading office overlooking an industrial river port
Who we are

A sourcing desk with a freight department attached

Most importers hire an agent, an inspector and a forwarder, and then spend their week managing the gaps between them. We do the three jobs with the same team: the person who negotiated your price signs off the inspection report and books the container.

Registered in Hong Kong and operating from Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Yiwu, we sit where the products are made, close to the factories, the ports and the paperwork.

How we work

Four commitments behind every order

Aerial view of an industrial manufacturing district in the Pearl River Delta at golden hour
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    Transparency. The factory invoice is shown to you as it is. Our fee is a fee, not a margin hidden inside the unit price.
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    Accountability. One coordinator owns your account from the specification to the delivered pallet.
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    Quality first. We audit the factory, inspect while the line runs and release the balance only after a clean AQL report.
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    Cost discipline. The cost comes down through specification and consolidation, never through quality.
Who you deal with

Three roles, one account

We publish roles rather than names, because the person who answers your email should matter less than the fact that the role never changes hands mid-order. You get one coordinator, and the other two work behind them.

ROLE 01Account coordinatorOwns your order from the written specification to the delivered pallet, and writes to you in English or Spanish. The single answer to "who do I ask".
ROLE 02Sourcing and negotiationWorks the factory in Mandarin: price, tooling, payment structure and lead time, argued separately instead of as one number.
ROLE 03Inspection and freightWalks the production line, writes the AQL report, then consolidates, books and documents the container out of Guangzhou.
Where we stop

What Laikan is not

We are not a supplier directory. A list of factories is free and worth what it costs; the work is knowing which of them holds tolerance on the third production run. We are not a broker who introduces you and disappears either, because the introduction is the cheap part and the argument about a defect eight weeks later is the expensive one.

We are not an insurer. Cargo insurance is arranged on your behalf through licensed underwriters, and the policy is between you and them. And we are a poor fit for anyone buying a single sample, chasing the lowest price on a marketplace, or unwilling to have the goods inspected before the balance is paid. That last one is not a preference. It is the mechanism the whole operation rests on.

Where we operate

Registered in Hong Kong, operating at origin

HKHong KongRegistered office and international trade hub.
CN · GZGuangzhouSourcing, quality control and the consolidation warehouse.
CN · SZShenzhenElectronics sourcing, certification and ocean freight out of Yantian and Shekou.
20+Years of experience
5Sourcing divisions run in-house
3Inspections before a container leaves
3Working languages

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