Insights from the editorial desk
The guides explain how to buy a chair; these pieces explain the industry you are buying it from. Each one is built on named, dated sources — trade data, state-media cluster figures with their caveats attached, and our own marketplace listing samples — and we say plainly where a number is a claim rather than a fact.
The regional split: Foshan, Anji, Bazhou
Chinese seating manufacture is not one industry but several regional ones. Listing data and trade-fair sources agree on who makes what — and a buyer who matches category to cluster shortlists faster.
2026-06-12 · 9 min read →The MOQ mirage on sourcing platforms
Marketplace listings advertise minimum orders of one or two chairs. Production reality starts at fifty and often at three hundred. Our listing sample shows how wide the gap is — and why it exists.
2026-06-12 · 8 min read →What 540 chair listings tell us about pricing
We sampled the first listing page for eight seating categories on two export marketplaces. Here are the advertised price bands, the teaser-price games, and what the numbers can and cannot tell a buyer.
2026-06-12 · 10 min read →Why buyers distrust certificates — and what would fix it
BIFMA used as a search keyword, CE badges nobody can trace, gas lifts buyers fear will explode. How certification claims decay on marketplaces, how BIFMA and EN labelling actually work, and the checks that restore meaning.
2026-05-28 · 10 min read →US tariffs and the China-plus-one chair supply chain
Section 232 duties on upholstered wooden seating, a postponed escalation, and Vietnam’s surge in wooden furniture. What the verified record shows, what is genuinely uncertain, and how chair buyers should plan.
2026-05-21 · 11 min read →Anji: the county said to make a third of China’s chairs
A single Zhejiang county claims one in three chairs made in China and half of China’s chair exports. What the cluster numbers say, where they come from, and what the concentration means for buyers.
2026-05-14 · 10 min read →Marketplace figures come from our own first-page listing samples and are seller-claimed snapshots; government and press figures are attributed inline. Dates on each piece tell you how stale to assume it is.