About us
The honest version.
Import QC is not a venture-funded platform and not a faceless agency with a rotating cast of account managers. It's a deliberately small company built on a very large asset — and it started with a frustration.
A decade inside the inspection industry
Our most senior co-founder has spent ten years in quality control in China — including years inside SGS, the largest inspection company on earth. From that seat she ran the whole machine: how inspections get sold, dispatched, reported — and priced. That's where the method comes from: the AQL discipline, the structured checklists, the report formats, the instinct for which corner of a warehouse the factory would rather you didn't photograph.
It's also where the frustration comes from. Year after year, she watched the same thing happen: a small importer from Ohio or Rotterdam or Melbourne — someone wiring $15,000 of their own money to a supplier they'd never met — would ask for a single inspection. And the giants would quote them a corporate price, route them through three sales emails, and deliver a report that read like it was written for a procurement department, not a person.
The inspection itself was often excellent. Everything around it — the price, the friction, the tone — was built for companies a hundred times their size.
Our second co-founder — Yassine Ait Hmad — is in charge of market development and is Import QC's spokesperson. Connect with Yassine on LinkedIn
The unfair advantage, disclosed
Import QC has partnered with one of China's largest quality-control firms — a company that spent two decades building its expertise serving Chinese clients, and then decided to go international through this partnership.
Our partner employs more than 1,000 full-time inspectors across every manufacturing province. The co-founder in charge of QC is a partner at the Chinese firm. She personally routes every Import QC order to the right category-specialist inspector, in the right city, at the internal rate that makes our $149 flat price possible.
What that means for you: the reach and reliability of a thousand-inspector network, with the pricing of a company that has no sales department, no regional offices and no marketing budget to bake into your invoice. When you message us, you talk to a co-founder. When your order is dispatched, it goes through someone with a decade of seniority inside the network.
Small on the outside. Enormous where it counts.
What we believe
Show the price
If a company won't publish its price, it's pricing you, not the service. Ours is on the homepage.
Small importers deserve the big method
A $10,000 first order deserves the same AQL rigor as a million-dollar contract. Maybe more — there's less margin for error.
The report is the product
Not the brand, not the app, not the account manager. You pay for one thing: the truth about your goods, in writing, with photos, in time to act on it.
A note on being small
We take a limited number of orders per week and we're not trying to become the next QIMA. When volume grows, it grows through repeat customers and referrals — which means the report quality is the entire business model. If we ever send you a lazy inspection, we haven't just lost a customer; we've broken the only engine we have. We behave accordingly.
Questions before booking? Call or WhatsApp us — a human answers: +86 182 4849 8409
Your supplier has a QC plan for your order. Do you?
One flat rate. One accountable human. One report that tells you the truth before the balance payment leaves your account.