Steel & metal sourcing from China — from 20 tonnes, mill-direct

China produces more than half the world's steel, which is exactly why importing it is risky: the market is enormous, opaque, and full of traders who never roll a single coil themselves. Buy in English and you usually reach a re-seller adding a margin on top of the mill price. Silk Way Sourcing connects you to the actual mills and processors instead — for hot-rolled, cold-rolled and galvanized coil, structural sections, stainless, and pipe — at order sizes from roughly 20 tonnes or a single container.

The two ways a steel order goes wrong are grade and paperwork. A mill quotes Q235B and ships something softer; a 'galvanized' coil arrives with half the zinc coating you specified; a mill test certificate is edited to match the order it doesn't actually meet. None of this is visible in a photo or a PDF. It shows up months later, in the field, when the steel underperforms.

We close that gap on the ground. We confirm the supplier is the genuine producer, check the mill test certificate against the heat number, and run a pre-shipment inspection that measures thickness, width, coil weight and coating against your spec — with a photo report — before the balance is paid. You get mill-direct pricing and the documentation a customs broker and an end client will both accept.