Returning Defective Goods to a Chinese Supplier: Must the Refund Wait?
Before returning defective goods, check the right to end the sale, concurrent restitution, the effect of use or resale, and a workable refund and handover arrangement.
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Chinese Supplier Defaults: Can You Recover Lost Resale Profits?
A cancelled customer order is not automatically the damages amount. Connect the lost sale to the breach, prove the net margin and account for substitute performance.
Keeping Defective Goods from a Chinese Supplier: How to Calculate a Price Reduction
Keeping defective goods may justify a lower price. Compare delivery-date values, preserve notice rights, assess cure and separate additional damages from the reduction.
Chinese Buyer’s Payment Ability Deteriorates: Can a Foreign Seller Suspend Shipment?
Before shipping on credit to a Chinese buyer, assess evidence of payment risk, suspension notices, adequate assurance and the limits of stopping goods already in transit.
Excess Goods from a Chinese Supplier: Must the Buyer Accept and Pay?
A Chinese supplier sends more goods than ordered. Check quantity tolerances, acceptance and payment, rejection notices, temporary custody and reasonable handling costs.
Missing or Incorrect Shipping Documents from a Chinese Supplier: Who Pays for Port Delays?
Goods are stuck because of a missing or incorrect shipping document. Check the supplier’s document obligation, the release obstacle, correction options and evidence for additional port charges.
Chinese Supplier Claims Force Majeure: Must You Accept Delay or Lose Your Refund?
A force-majeure notice does not automatically extend delivery or remove refund rights. Check CISG Article 79, PRC Civil Code rules, order-specific evidence and the remedies that may remain.
Chinese Supplier Batch Delivery Dispute: Can You Cancel Future Shipments?
One failed delivery does not automatically cancel every remaining batch. Compare CISG Article 73 and PRC Civil Code Article 633, notices, suspension and batch-by-batch remedies.
Chinese Buyer Refuses Delivery: Storage Costs and Resale Options for Foreign Sellers
A refused shipment creates preservation and cost questions before any resale. Check proper delivery, reasonable storage, CISG notices and PRC statutory deposit rules.
Chinese Supplier Offers to Repair Defective Goods: Can the Buyer Still Seek a Refund?
A repair offer is not an automatic answer to a refund demand. Check CISG cure conditions, termination thresholds, expenses and a reasoned written response.