News, Buying Guides and Compliance Notes

This section collects everything we publish for buyers: factory updates and certificates, regulation and market notes, and the sourcing guides written for importers and brand owners. The list below is the running record; the three streams it draws on are described underneath.

What is published here

There are three separate streams, and they answer different questions. Read the buying guides if you are still comparing suppliers; read the industry notes if you need to know whether a rule changed; read the company news if you already work with us and want the dated record behind a certificate or a production change.

  • Company News — factory updates from Yunhe, Zhejiang: equipment and capacity, certificates and audit documentation, and the compliance changes that affect orders in production.
  • Industry News — regulation and market notes for wooden toy buyers: EU and US testing requirements, marketplace documentation, material supply and freight conditions.
  • Buying Guides — the long-form guides importers and brand buyers ask for most: importing from China, the documents that travel with a shipment, MOQs and test orders, and how to choose safe wooden toys.

The four guides buyers use most

Compliance notes, in one place

Wooden toys are subject to two rule sets in practice: EN71 and CE marking for the European Union, and ASTM F963 with a Children's Product Certificate for the United States. Both require third-party test reports before the goods ship, and both put the labelling obligation on the importer or the brand owner rather than on the factory. The toy safety standards page explains which document does what, and the catalogues and documentation page explains how we issue them.

How to use these pages

For a first order, start with the MOQ guide and the documents guide, then read the safety notes for the market you are selling into. For a repeat order, the industry section is the one to watch, because the things that change between two shipments are the testing requirement and the freight, not the product.

Working with the factory

We are a wooden toy manufacturer in Yunhe County, Zhejiang, established in 2007, with 80 staff and a 6,000 m2 plant. In-stock items start at 50 pieces per item; samples of in-stock items are normally dispatched within 48 hours and custom sampling takes about 10 days; production runs about 30 days after order confirmation. Send your item list and destination market to info@china-wooden-toys.com and we will quote item by item, with the specification sheet and test report that belong to each item.