Several Spices in One Container: Buying Through Yulin

Yulin is reported to handle about 80% of China's spice trade, and Fuda International Spice Logistics Port, where our desk and warehouse sit, stocks well over a hundred spices from China and abroad. China grows star anise, cassia, ginger, chilli, cumin and fennel, and imports cloves, black pepper and other spices that are sorted and re-exported. Importers in the market buy full containers at origin and split them, so smaller quantities of many spices are available in one place.

Kun and Chuangui grade every lot at our desk, and Fu handles the quotation, documents and shipment from Shenzhen. You deal with one contact, not one supplier per spice.

A typical example is a 20-foot container for a food wholesaler with seven lines: star anise and cassia from Guangxi, cloves from Indonesia, black pepper from Vietnam, cumin from Xinjiang, fennel, and chilli. Each line is at least 500 kg and has its own specification, sample, laboratory test, packs, labels and origin records. Strong-smelling spices such as cloves and star anise stay in sealed liners so their aroma does not reach the rest.

If one of your lines would be better bought elsewhere, we say so.

Sorting, cleaning, milling or repacking in China does not change where a spice was grown. Indonesian cloves stay Indonesian and Vietnamese pepper stays Vietnamese on every document, declared from import and batch records. Duties and preferences in your country depend on that true origin, so we never relabel origin.