Is the Huangshan Foreign Trade Corporation a legitimate company?  What
is their business reputation?

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Clarification of Question by selitzer-ga on 09 Feb 2006 09:23 PST

Do they have a relationship with Anhui Huangshan Jiayi Manufacturer &
Trading Co.Ltd?

Dear selitzer,

There can be no doubt that Huangshan Foreign Trade Corporation is a
real, existing company (also known as Anhui Huangshan Foreign Trade
Corp.; "Anhui" is just the Chinese Province where they are located).
This is for sure for the following reasons:

- They are listed on a Chinese Government website, the Shanghai
Municipal Agricultural Commission website [1]

- They are listed as an exhibitor at the 2004 Chinese Export
Commidities Fair [2],[3]

- They appear in the authoritative Graham & Whiteside business
directory "Major Companies of the Far East and Australasia 2005", Vol.
3 [4]

- The business reference provider Thomson Gale offers a business
report for this company [5]

- The contact information listed in the domain registration record [6]
for their website (http://www.huangshantrade.com/) matches the actual
company address; scam businesses usually use fake addresses for
registering their domains.

There can be no doubt that Huangshan Foreign Trade Corporation exists.

Unfortunately, there are no whatsoever records available that refer to
the reputation of Huangshan Foreign Trade Corporation. Despite
extensive research, it proved impossible to locate free information on
this. All I can do is refer you to the company report offered by
Thomson Gale which may contain such information:
http://gale.ecnext.com/coms2/profile-cm6cy-Anhui-Huangshan-Foreign-Trade-Corp.html

I hope that I was able to help you!
Regards,
Scriptor



Sources:

[1] Shanghai Municipal Agricultural Commission: Huangshan Foreign Trade Corporation
http://en.shac.gov.cn/bs/sell/t20041201_113677.htm

[2] Chinese Export Commidities Fair: Stationery and Sports Goods (Google Cache)
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:BK7_ETnKc80J:www.cantonfair.org.cn/en/search/prod_info.asp

[3] Chinese Export Commidities Fair: Art Ceramic (Google Cache)
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:iyN4ddMlwaUJ:www.cantonfair.org.cn/en/search/prod_info.asp

[4] Thomson Learning Library Reference: Graham & Whiteside - Index to
Major Companies of the Far East and Australasia 2005, Vol. 3 (PDF
document)
http://lr.thomsonlearning.co.uk/graham_whiteside/MCFEAV.pdf

[5] Thomson Gale: Anhui Huangshan Foreign Trade Corp. - Company
Profile, Information & Research
http://gale.ecnext.com/coms2/profile-cm6cy-Anhui-Huangshan-Foreign-Trade-Corp.html

[6] Allwhois Domain Database
http://www.allwhois.com/cgi-bin/allwhois.cgi


Search terms used:
"Huangshan Foreign Trade"
://www.google.de/search?q=%22Huangshan+Foreign+Trade%22&num=20&hl=de&lr=&newwindow=1&c2coff=1&safe=off&start=0&sa=N
"Huangshan Foreign Trade" gov
://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=%22Huangshan+Foreign+Trade%22+gov&btnG=Google-Suche&meta=

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Clarification of Answer by scriptor-ga on 09 Feb 2006 11:38 PST

I forgot to mention that they definitely have a close connection with
Anhui Huangshan Jiayi Manufacturer & Trading Co.Ltd. As you can see in
Jiayi's business profile at Alibaba.com, they are sharing a telephone
number, a mobile phone number and a fax number with Huangshan Foreign
Trade Corp. (86-559-2310218, 86-13805598830 and 86-559-2310206):
http://hsjiayi.en.alibaba.com/profile.html

This can only mean that the two companies are either very closely
connected or even identical.

Regards,
Scriptor

Scriptor, I've seen some of your other responses, and once again your
research and turn around time is amazing.  Thank you.