^^^This
Daughter is a buyer and she worked for a well known furniture outfit. She would regularly go out to visit factories in China, the varying climate conditions they worked in meant the product quality varied month by month (especially the painted stuff) and they would reject whole batches of containers which is a nightmare to plan your stock against and fulfil orders. They were shifting more of it to Vietnam as the climate there doesn’t have the same fluctuations.
I recently purchased a made to measure aluminium louvred pergola from Alibaba for quarter the price someone wanted to charge me from the UK (and it would probably still have been made in China). They did all the technical drawings and I had them adjust some stuff, couldn’t fault the attention to detail. Not put it up yet as waiting for a tree to be taken down so can’t comment on the quality but it looks decent enough….hope it’s all there