Protect the Deal
The Contracts That Protect a China Deal
A purchase order does not protect you if the factory copies your product, ships defective goods, or disappears with your deposit. These do — bilingual, PRC-law, and built by an operator who has enforced them.
Before you share designs, specs, or samples
NNN Agreement
Non-Disclosure, Non-Use, Non-Circumvention — stops the factory building your product for itself or going around you to your customers. Not a Western NDA.
Before tooling or development begins
Product Development Agreement
Assigns all IP — design, tooling, know-how — to you from creation. Without it, the factory can own what it builds and sell it to your competitors.
For ongoing production orders
OEM Supply Agreement
A master framework every purchase order inherits — tooling ownership, quality remedies and anti-knockoff clauses locked once, not renegotiated per order.
For a single production run
Manufacturing Contract
The core protections — specification, quality, payment terms and jurisdiction — for a one-off order, without the full OEM framework.
When you want a market to yourself
Exclusive Distribution Agreement
Locks your territory and bars the supplier from selling around you into it.
When you appoint someone to sell for you
Sales Agency Agreement
The agent earns commission; the customers and the IP stay yours.
When you pay for a mold or tooling
Mold & Tooling Ownership Agreement
Establishes — in writing, under PRC law — that the tooling you paid for is yours, and can be released or moved on your instruction.
Everything, in the right order
The Contracts Vault
All of the above as one set — the full protection stack for a serious China supply relationship, at a fraction of drafting each from a lawyer.
Contracts are prepared and sold through The Factory Floor. Not legal advice — have a qualified PRC or Hong Kong lawyer review and finalize any agreement before you sign.