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Industrial: sourcing questions answered

1 category in this group, each with sourced answers on minimum order quantity, tooling cost, lead time, unit cost, HS classification and import duty.

Obsolete and discontinued industrial parts

The Chinese industrial aftermarket is deep, poorly indexed outside China, and frequently the only remaining source for a part an OEM stopped making years ago. Sourcing it is a research problem rather than a manufacturing one, and the correct answer is not always a new part — sometimes it is identifying the original contract manufacturer, and sometimes it is honestly reverse-engineering the thing..

Every question in this group