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Why Are So Many Companies Choosing Vietnam for Home Decor Sourcing?
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May 28, 2025
Vietnam has become a top choice for sourcing home decor and furniture, thanks to its skilled craftsmanship, cost efficiency, access to quality materials, and strong trade benefits. In this episode of the Global Trade Gal podcast, Anita discusses why Vietnam stands out as a reliable and ethical sourcing destination for B2B companies. At Mondoro, we’ve seen firsthand how Vietnam's capabilities help us deliver stunning, handcrafted decor that meets global standards. Want to dive deeper into this topic? Click here (https://mondoro.com/why-source-home-decor-products-from-vietnam/) to read more. #GlobalTradeGal #VietnamSourcing #HomeDecorSourcing #EthicalManufacturing #FurnitureDesign #InteriorStyle #MadeInVietnam #B2BManufacturing Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/globaltradegal)
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hi this is Anita the global trade gal
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Today I want to talk a little bit about
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why companies should look to source
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product from Vietnam Now as my company
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Manduro we are in home decor and home
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furnishing A lot of the focus of this
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will be upon something which we know
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which is home decor and home furnishing
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But I'll also talk a little bit in
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general why companies might want to look
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to source products from Vietnam
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Especially if now all of your production
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is in China you may want to look to be
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able to source some product and
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production from
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Vietnam Why Vietnam continues to be a
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top choice for sourcing products and
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especially for my own industry home
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decor product There's many reasons why
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Vietnam is a sought-after um destination
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you know for many types of sourcing but
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it also you know Vietnam has a very
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young population You know over you know
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half the population is quite young It
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doesn't have a population like Japan or
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other places where the population is
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starting to age out In fact Vietnam has
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a very young population
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So you know this you know means that you
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basically have a pool of people who are
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looking to be employed or or that want
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to be employed that want to work If
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you're looking for manufacturing it's
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you know known for its you know rich
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artistic type of heritage as a very
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skilled labor force Education among the
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Vietnamese is extremely important So
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education has always been very important
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In fact Vietnam has a higher literacy
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rate than many other western countries
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Their literacy rate is extremely high
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here And one of the reasons why is
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because among the Vietnamese themselves
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education or uh being literate has
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always been a very important thing
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Vietnam has been rising in home decor at
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least in my industry in in the
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manufacturing And part of it is because
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of skilled artisans with generations of
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craft knowledge competitive labor cost
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rich local materials There's lots of
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materials you can find here strategic
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trade agreements they've had with the
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you know US EU and beyond right now with
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the US that trade agreements having a
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bit of a problem with some of the
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tariffs But I I believe it will work out
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because the Vietnamese are are quite
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pragmatic in their view on these things
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And the government has a lot of support
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for manufacturing and for export A lot
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of there's a skilled workforce as I
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mentioned a young workforce There's a
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lot of people you know it's Vietnam is a
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very young population that is um you
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know looking to to be able to find jobs
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and to be able to work And the
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Vietnamese themselves are very hard
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workers They want to work they have sort
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of like that same you know work ethic as
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many of the Chinese have and that they
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want to work and they want to be able to
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work hard There's a lot of local
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materials that are available You know
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they have a lot of bamboo they have
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retan um there's wood uh water hyasin
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seaggrass they have you know other types
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of materials that can be used ceramics
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the clay and and other things which can
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be used to be able to produce all types
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of at least home decor products If
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you're looking for things like stone
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they have some of the natural resources
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here too and some of the mining
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operations going on There's a lot of
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different types of local materials
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become more available and you know
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they're constantly developing new types
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of material and new types of things and
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and new types of manufacturing is going
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on here They can be relatively
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competitive
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I mentioned in a previous podcast that
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we were looking at some other you know
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Asian countries and I found that Vietnam
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was 100 to 300% cheaper than some other
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countries that we were looking at which
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is significant I mean it's huge You know
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they may not be as cheap as China on
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some items but they can you know be as
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competitive and go neck andneck with
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China So if you have a brand and you're
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looking to say I don't want to be so
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China dependent you know Vietnam would
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definitely be the location for you to
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look at and and check out you know
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especially depending upon what type of
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product it is But generally speaking I
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would say that Vietnam offers a lot of
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great u
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manufacturing opportunities Vietnam has
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a lot of great infrastructure and port
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access There's a you know there's quite
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a few major ports The two major ports
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are um you know down in Ho Chi Min and
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in and and in Hi Hiong which is outside
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of Hanoi You know there's also you know
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there's some other smaller parts like in
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the central part and Queen and you know
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in other places like that So Vietnam
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does have ports where you can ship the
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goods out If you look at a map of
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Vietnam you'll see that it's a very long
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sort of skinny narrow country that has a
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long coastline So you know because of
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that they were able to be able to you
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know build the other ports and get
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things out you know of their country
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quite easily You when you look at China
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you know China has a long coastline too
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but China also is a very you know large
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country So if something is in the
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western part of China it still has to go
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to the eastern part to be able to get
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out on the ship Whereas Vietnam because
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the country is sort of long and narrow
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it's not such a huge distance to travel
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from If your manufacturing is on one
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side of the country to get to the port
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it's not such a huge distance as it may
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be for another country So there is sort
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of that you know type of advantage in
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the fact that they you know have these
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major ports and have been investing in
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major ports and they've been investing
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and be able to get these containers out
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They have some great you know design
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capabilities and customizations that
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they're willing to do for the production
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You know that a lot of the Vietnamese
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factories are are really you know they
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are not afraid to do your design to try
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your design generally speaking can do
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things maybe that's different than some
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of the Chinese can do There are things
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that definitely are produced here in
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Vietnam which China does not do And you
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know vice versa there's things in China
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which Vietnam doesn't do too But you
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know a lot of the you know production
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and other capabilities that are you know
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here if it if it fits in with the type
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of look that you have or your you know
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your brand or your product there you
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know there can be some really you know
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great um techniques here I really
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believe in Vietnam there's a lot of
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ethical and socially responsible
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manufacturing you know where you know
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companies are looking to provide fair
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wages and safer working conditions to
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avoid child labor and exploitative
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practices and you know follow
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environmental and waste reduction
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protocols I want to talk a minute about
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child labor because in especially in a
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lot of the major cities you know
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education is very important to most
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Vietnamese families So they are not you
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know unless they're really destitute for
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some reason will not have their you know
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children out there working you know in
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in a factory they would want their child
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to go to school because education is
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important to the Vietnamese And that's
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why as I mentioned before there's a very
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high literacy rate We found that there's
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a consistency quality control here Yes
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like any other place in the world there
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can be some you know problems and and
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other types of issues but generally we
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have found that when you say to them
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that this is not up to standard they'd
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be willing to fix it And you know we can
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be able to get it fixed before we ship
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it out You know that's why you know Muro
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for us quality is extremely important I
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mentioned this before that a lot of
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times we will do 100% inspection We will
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look at things you know 100% you know
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for while things are in we we do two
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types of inspection We do one which is
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called the due pro which is during the
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process inspection meaning we check the
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goods as they're in the manufacturing
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process And many times you know my my
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team is there while they're actually
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packing the goods up so we see exactly
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what is being packed And part of that is
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because most of my customers you know
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medium to higher end and if there's
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problems or complaints we hear about it
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It cost us money So we want to make sure
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that the goods that we're producing are
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up to the standard and the quality that
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is required You know these are many
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reasons why you know Vietnam I find is a
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great place to be able to produce
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product It's a great place to build
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source product That's why it's continues
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to be an important manufacturing hub and
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I believe will continue to be an
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important manufacturing hub for many
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years to come This is Anita from the
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Global Trade Gal We've hope you've
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enjoyed this We've written a blog post
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on this I will put it into description
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It's called Why Source Home Decor
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Products from Vietnam Even though I
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specifically talk about home decor
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products if you have other products that
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you're looking at it may also give you
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some ideas of some reasons why you
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should consider to source your products
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from Vietnam or look to Vietnam as a
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manufacturing base for some of your
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products We've hope you've enjoyed this
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