China sourcing and trading company
We find a factory that can make it to your quality at the best price we can get, follow production, and get it to your door. Freight, customs and duty sit on one itemised quote.
Why buyers use us
Most of the work in an import order happens between the factory and your door. That is the part we take off your desk.
The usual way: Not knowing if the price is fair, or what cheaper will cost you in quality
With ShuoStar: We match the order to a maker that fits your quality and your price, and show you what the price is made of.
The usual way: Chasing factories across time zones and a language gap
With ShuoStar: An American on our team deals with the factory in person and answers for the order.
The usual way: A unit price that leaves out freight, customs and duty
With ShuoStar: A landed cost, itemised line by line, before you commit.
The usual way: A tariff change you only hear about from the invoice
With ShuoStar: The duty line, and who carries a change, written on the quote.
The usual way: Goods that turn up after the date you needed them
With ShuoStar: We plan every order back from the date it has to be on site.
The usual way: Reorders that start from scratch every time
With ShuoStar: We keep your specification, so a reorder is a quantity and a date.
How we work
The product, the quantity, where it is going and when it has to be there. A drawing or a photo helps.
We look for a factory that can make it to your specification, then send one landed quote with the goods, freight, customs and duty on separate lines.
If you want a sample first, we quote it with the order. Then we plan production, packing, export clearance and the sailing back from your date.
Our broker files the customs entry at the tariff line on your quote, and the goods go to a port, a rail ramp or your door.
The rest of how we work: who invoices you, how we are paid, what we will not do
Price and quality
Cheaper is easy to find in China. Cheaper at the quality you signed off is harder to find, and finding it is most of what we do.
We start from the quality you need, then look for the best price at that quality.
Goods, ocean freight, customs entry, duty and delivery each get their own line, so you can see where the money goes.
We visit the factory while it is made and check the goods against what you approved before they are packed.
We keep your specification, so a reorder starts from what you already approved.
Production line to port
Made, packed, palletised and loaded. We follow your order through each of these stages.
Order-by calendar
We start from the date the goods have to be on site and work back through every stage, using the slowest time we plan for each.
Shown for an order of C9 bulbs. Ocean transit comes from our freight-rate data (Freightos, 2026-09-03); the other stages are planning allowances. Your quote confirms the dates for your order.
What's included
Who can make it, to your specification, and by when.
Quoted next to the production run, when you want one.
We stay on the order from deposit to packing.
Master cartons counted to your pallet and container plan.
Inland to port, export documents and the vessel cut-off.
A full container, or less than a container for a trial quantity.
Filed through our broker, with the tariff line named.
To a port, a rail ramp or your door.
Your specification kept on file for the next order.
Freight and the customs entry go through forwarders and a broker we have used since 2020, and the quote puts each on its own line.
What we source
We add categories as they prove out. Anything outside them can still go in as a sourcing request.
C9 bulbs and socket wire, LED mini lights, custom LED displays, giant Christmas trees, Christmas arches, light tunnels, pole-mount decorations, giant ornaments, wreaths and garland for installers, the cities that commission them and the distributors who stock them.
Quoted
Folding chairs, steel crowd control barricades, outdoor igloos, party and event tents, geodesic dome tents, hologram fan walls, custom flags, dance floors, portable stages and other event goods for rental companies, venues and wholesalers.
Quoted
Knit beanies with matching scarves and socks, logo blankets, souvenir cups, custom plush, keychains, souvenir magnets, tote bags and lanyards for the gift shops and concession stands of attractions and venues, made to your design: your colours and artwork knitted, woven, printed, sewn, cast or engraved, your mascot or animal as a plush, a keychain or a magnet, a leather patch, and your own labels or retail packs.
QuotedSend it as a sourcing request. Tell us what it is, the quantity and the date, and we will say whether we can get it made, and by when.
Send a requestWho we supply
These are the buyers we know best. We are choosy about the orders we take on, and if yours is not a fit, the first reply says so.
Dates and duty in writing: ex-works, landed, and who carries a tariff change between quote and landing.
What we can and cannot produce for your bid file, stated before you ask.
We supply people like you, and we will say so in writing.
Event goods by the container, built to your specification and quoted landed.
From the record
Custom display structures and lighting consumables over six seasons, several containers a year, with the customs entry filed by us each time.
See the case studiesAvailable redacted, on request
The record
Entry filings, HTS lines actually used, forwarders, routings and duty columns by year. Not flattering, dated, and ours.
How we work and how we make moneyWhat we will not do
Questions
No. The number depends on the configuration, the quantity, the destination and the duty rate on the day the goods land, so we would rather quote it than guess it. What we do publish is the list of things that move it, so you can see where the cost comes from.
Ask for one with your request. If a sample run makes sense for the product, we quote it next to the production quantity.
The quote says. It names the duty line, the rate we quoted against and which of us carries a change. Nobody finds out from the invoice.
No. We do not name the factories we buy from. What every quote does tell you is what you are paying for and why, line by line.
Send it anyway. A request for something we do not list is a sourcing request: the first reply says whether we can get it made, and by when, and the landed quote follows.
Yes. Full containers are the norm, but for a trial quantity we can ship less than a container load. The quote shows what that costs per unit next to what it would cost to fill the box.
Yes. Canadian orders can move by sea and then rail, and we have delivered that way before. Put the delivery city on the request and the quote is worked out to it.
That depends on the product and the date the goods have to be on site. The order-by calendar works back from that date through production, the sailing and the customs entry, at the slowest time we plan for each, and shows the date to order by. Your quote confirms the dates.
Yes. If your agency has to pay a US vendor, say so in your request and we will quote from our US company. The company that will invoice you is named at the top of every quote.
Request a quote
Send the product, the quantity, the destination and the date. We reply within 1 business day and tell you when your landed quote will follow.
We take on the orders we can do well, and we will say so if yours isn't one of them.
Now reviewing requests
Either way, we read every request ourselves.
Everything we need for a landed quote.
Just the basics. We go through the rest together.
Private sourcing and tradingWe take on the orders we can do wellMinimum order value (MOV) US$5,000
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