Guide consolidation
Manufacturer vs trading company: read the maintained guide
This guide has been consolidated so buyers do not have to choose between two overlapping versions of the same verification workflow.
Open the current factory vs trading company guideWhy the pages were combined
The maintained guide covers legal-entity evidence, operating-site checks, production-control questions, quote comparison and the conditions under which a transparent trading company may still fit the order. Its canonical URL is the version intended for indexing and future updates.