Practical guides for verifying Vietnamese suppliers and supply chains.
Grouped by what you're trying to answer: supplier verification, factory verification, timber and furniture supply chains, and EU/US compliance. Written for the person who has to act on them. No registration, no gated downloads.
Supplier Verification
How to verify a Vietnamese manufacturer before your first order
A five-step sequence covering entity registration, certificate validation, capacity, subcontracting, and screening, including which checks you can do yourself, free, from your desk.
Read guide Due DiligenceTrading company vs manufacturer in Vietnam
Practical checks for whether a Vietnamese supplier is the factory making your product or a trading company sourcing it from someone else, and what a site visit confirms.
Read guide Due DiligenceVietnam supplier due diligence checklist
Five checks you can run from your desk before you pay a deposit: registry, sanctions lists, certificates, capacity and wood origin, plus the four things only a visit can settle.
Read guideTimber & Furniture
Timber verification in Vietnam
What a site visit adds when the product is wood: origin tracing, harvest documentation, and where Vietnam's own timber-legality system does and doesn't help your EUDR or Lacey Act file.
Read guide Timber & Wood Supply ChainsWhat documents should a Vietnamese timber supplier provide?
A checklist of the specific documents a genuine supplier should produce, what each one proves, and where it falls short of EUDR or Lacey Act evidence.
Read guide Timber & Wood Supply ChainsRed flags when sourcing timber and furniture from Vietnam
Warning signs when buying wood furniture from Vietnam: registration, paperwork, capacity, access and payment terms, and which of them you can test from your desk.
Read guideEU & US Compliance
What EUDR Article 9 requires from a Vietnamese supplier
The six items you must collect, why a signed supplier declaration does not satisfy the standard, where Vietnamese wood supply chains can break, and what the 30 December 2026 date means working backwards.
Read guide US Import ComplianceUFLPA and transshipment risk in Vietnam
Why a certificate of origin answers the wrong question, the difference between origin fraud and lawful upstream exposure, and the documentation CBP actually accepts to rebut a detention.
Read guide US Import ComplianceLacey Act and Vietnamese wood furniture imports
What the Lacey Act declaration requires since the December 2024 Phase VII expansion brought furniture into scope, and what a Vietnamese supplier needs to be able to evidence.
Read guide EU & US ComplianceOne evidence file for EUDR, UFLPA and the Lacey Act
One table showing what to collect once from a Vietnamese supplier, how EUDR, UFLPA and the Lacey Act each use it, where the three laws differ, and four mistakes to avoid.
Read guide EU & US ComplianceDoes EUDR apply to rattan and bamboo furniture from Vietnam?
Furniture made only of rattan or bamboo is outside EUDR. Wood is not. What is in and out, why mixed products need care, what to ask the supplier, and how the Lacey Act and UFLPA differ.
Read guide EU & US ComplianceHow to screen a Vietnamese supplier against the UFLPA Entity List
Which names to search, how to handle aliases and near matches, what to put in the screening record, and why a clean result does not clear the goods.
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