Fine Concept International is an independent sourcing company registered and based in Hong Kong, China.

Its goal is to help provide the UK and International market with competitively priced products from Asia. Our aim is provide personal contacts for QC rather than faceless organisations. We aim to provide a full service not just a product. We strive for long term relationships not short term gains.

Director Mr M.Murdoch

There are a number of key things we can do

1) Product sourcing-

We can run the entire supply chain, or any aspect of it. We can source products for you, or provide comparable quotes. We can even visit trade shows or offices in Hong Kong or China or South East Asia on your behalf, to make your day-to-day business run more smoothly and so you don’t need to leave your offices.

2) Quality Control Checks

-    Initial Production Inspection: At the beginning of production, we will check on the quality of main components, material and accessories according to clients’ specifications or reference samples. This permits timely corrections and improvements before the mass production is initiated; any non-conformity is immediately reported so as to avoid delays in shipment.
a) Evaluate the production capability and equipment in the factory.
b) Check factory’s quality control ability and system.
c) Check the quantity and quality of raw material and main components that will be used in the products. Foreseeing any possible problems and avoid them, verifying that the product specifications are being met early.

-    During Production Inspection:  inspection at this stage can uncover problems during the actual production-run so that they will be more easily resolved. We will fully check the quality of semi-finished and finished products and also find out the manufacturing schedule, manufacturing technique and identify any deviation and offer improving measures for the production in the following phase, forecast production effectiveness and estimate production finishing date.
a) Evaluate the production status during the manufacturing process.
b) Randomly inspect the finished samples on-site.
c) Inspect the packing details and packing material
d) Check the accuracy of production equipment and check the disposal methods for defective goods.

-   Final Shipment Inspection: Final Shipment Inspection happens when the production finishes completely or while the products are in the warehouse.
a) Quantity check
b) Style, color and material check
c) Function/Safety check
d) size measurement if needed
e) Package details & Shipping mark.

-    Container Loading Supervision: During container loading supervision, we will closely look at the loading process, verify product quantity and ensure proper handling of the cargo. This service significantly reduces the risk of items being damaged during the transportation. We will reach appointed factories, warehouses or loading place to check products basic information, quantity and package when loading, and take on-site photos for the client’s reference.

3) Tailor Made China Business Trip plan

If you want to come out here, We can help you to make a China business travel plan according to your requirements and your budget. We can provide suitable suggestion for transportation according to your travel route with an aim that save you time and money. We can help you get to your meetings on time and find the factories! We can act as a concierge and arrange meeting rooms for you and cars etc.

4) Business Interpretation and Translation

1. Trade Shows & Exhibitions
2. General Business Meetings
3. Site Interpretation
4. Presentations
5. Interviews & Training Programs
6. Factory Visit
7. Negotiations

5) Hong Kong or China or Asia City Tourist and Shopping Guide

While you are here on business trip, perhaps you would like to visit some tourist attraction and sightseeing or to do some shopping for your family as for a break from serious business atmosphere.

6) Purchasing Assistants with your trip

Purchasing from China offers many lucrative opportunities for small to mid-sized western companies – retailers, wholesalers, and distributors. But doing business halfway around the world, with another culture and with people who speak an unfamiliar language, can be confusing and difficult. When you purchase from China, you need to have someone to follow-up your order, to make sure products are delivered in time and in good quality. Even after your business trip is over, we are ready here to make sure everything is done as per your requested. We can help you:

• Select, pre-qualify and check out the background information of the manufacturer.
• Communicate with the potential suppliers regarding your requirements.
• Receive the quotations & samples on your behalf.
• Organize and supervise during manufacturing.
• Identify problems before products are shipped or distributed.
• Make sure your order is delivered on time and within the budget.
• On-site quality inspections and in process quality control.
• Pre-shipment quality inspection & Container loading check.
• Ensure that contractual obligations are met: specifications, packaging, marking and delivery.

7) Virtual Office -

we can set up a Hong Kong or China based virtual office for you, or we can act as your representative in any meetings you need to attend.

8 ) Outsouce services-

we can help you outsource some of your services to Asia if you wish also.

There are signs of increasing resistance to globalization in a new Wall Street Journal-NBC News Poll. Sixty percent of Republican respondents said they agreed with the statement that free trade has been bad for the U.S. and said they would agree with a Republican candidate who favored tougher regulations to limit foreign imports.

Now that is interesting to say the least. 

While Bush continues to call for continued global trade expansion, the rest of his party is having second thoughts which reflects a substantial shift in sentiment from eight years ago when King George could say or do no wrong. Leading Republican candidates are still trying to promote free trade though. “Our philosophy has to be not how many protectionist measures can we put in place, but how do we invent new things to sell” said former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. ”That’s the view of the future. What protectionists are trying to do is lock in the inadequacies of the past.”

No Rudy – what protectionists are trying to do is save he middle class from ruin. 

President Clinton championed a less-protectionist bent by promoting the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) during his administration, however his wife, and the current Democratic front-runner, Hillary Clinton, uses more skeptical rhetoric, going as far as coming out against a U.S. trade deal with South Korea altogether. Other leading Democrats have been harshly critical of trade expansion as well. In a March 2007 Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, 54% of Democratic voters said free-trade agreements have hurt the U.S., compared with 21% who said they have helped. This, along with eroding support among Republicans represents a fresh challenge to free-market conservatives and greedy American companies that benefit from cheap labor abroad, and unrestricted wage leverage when dealing American workers.

On Chris Matthew’s show Hardball recently, Robert Reich, a longtime supporter of the globalist ideal, had difficulty deflecting barbs from Pat Buchanan when dealing with the subjects of worker security, real living wages and the eroding dollar. To be perfectly honest, Reich’s answers seemed a bit trite and somewhat academic in tone. He had no real answers regarding what has happened. 

Even relatively small trade deals are facing resistance. Trade pacts with Peru and Panama still have a chance of passing in the current congressional term, however deals with South Korea and Colombia are in serious jeopardy. Some legislators believe South Korea isn’t opening its market wide enough to American beef and autos. Presidential “fast track” trade negotiating authority has lapsed as well. Without such authority, which requires Congress to take an up-or-down vote on trade deals, the next president would have trouble pursuing large trade agreements at all. 

Beyond trade, Republicans appear to be seeking a move away from the president on everything else, and with good reason. Everything else is a mess. Asked in general terms, a 48% plurality of Republicans said the next president should “take a different approach” from Bush, while 38% wanted to continue on his ideological path. In that poll, Giuliani maintained his lead in the Republican field with support from 30% of respondents. Former Sen. Fred Thompson drew 23% in the survey, and 15% for Sen. John McCain. 

“We’re seeing a lot of jobs farmed out,” said Mr. Pirtle, whose father works for General Motors Corp., – concerned by reports of safety problems with Chinese imports, he added, “The stuff we are getting, looking at all the recalls, to be quite honest, it’s junk.”

In the Republican campaign so far, elevating populist trade concerns has been left to the long shots. “The most important thing a president needs to do is to make it clear that we’re not going to continue to see jobs shipped overseas….and then watch as a CEO takes a $100 million bonus,” said Mike Huckabee, ”If Republicans don’t stop it, we don’t deserve to win in 2008.”

We can only hope that the tide of anti-globalism takes firm root and some of the front runners begin to wise up.