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QIMA At QIMA we are on a mission to offer our clients smart solutions to make products consumers can trust.

We combine on-the-ground experts for quality inspections, supplier audits, certification, and lab testing, with a digital platform that brings accuracy, visibility and intelligence for quality and compliance data. We operate in 95 countries and help more than 17,000 global brands, retailers, manufacturers, and food growers achieve quality excellence. Our 4,000 committed employees live and make dec

isions everyday by the set of our core values: have a look at https://www.qima.com/corporate-values and learn more about the QIMA way.

25/08/2026

China's share of North America's service volumes with QIMA reached 35% in Q2 2026, the highest since 2024.

The cause? As South and Southeast Asia’s factory capacity got squeezed by the fuel crisis, some Western buyers shifted orders back to China, where manufacturing runs largely on domestic coal and renewables.

Q2 data suggests this is tactical capacity management, not a strategic reversal. Q3 will tell us more.

Q3 2026 Barometer: https://zurl.co/7klDI

From September 27, a sustainability label sold into the EU has to be backed by evidence, not just accurate in spirit.Tha...
19/08/2026

From September 27, a sustainability label sold into the EU has to be backed by evidence, not just accurate in spirit.

That shift is happening in more places than one. The UK's competition regulator said in January that responsibility for green claims runs across the entire supply chain, not just the brand on the box. Canada now requires companies to substantiate environmental claims with adequate and proper testing. Enforcement has moved from reputational pressure to court judgments.

Our new quick guide covers what regulators in nine jurisdictions expect, the terms now in play (greenwashing, greenhushing, greenrinsing, greenlighting), and a straightforward list of what to do and what to avoid when you make an environmental claim.

Download it here: https://zurl.co/n9FCU

18/08/2026

China accounted for 78% of inspection and audit demand among emerging-market buyers outside Asia in Q2 2026, rising to 81% in South and Latin America. For developed-market buyers, the figure was 50%.

While Western buyers work on alternatives, emerging-market sourcing is becoming more concentrated, not less — and demand for China inspections from these buyers grew 18% year on year.

Q3 2026 Barometer: https://zurl.co/T9SoX

adidas's chemical restriction policy takes effect September 1, 2026.Version 24 of the A-01 policy adds more PFAS and PFC...
13/08/2026

adidas's chemical restriction policy takes effect September 1, 2026.
Version 24 of the A-01 policy adds more PFAS and PFCA compounds to the testing scope, and changes the rules for bisphenol (BPA, BPS, BPB, BPF). Once the new policy is in place, your product testing and approval will be assessed against these updated requirements, so it's worth getting ahead of the changes now.
Join our free Vietnamese webinar on August 27. QIMA's Chemical Lab Manager, Dr. Dinh Duy Hai, explains what changed and what you need to do.

Register here: https://zurl.co/IbC3N

12/08/2026

Amazon can suspend your listings for an Order Defect Rate above 1%. That's the easy one to track. Three more requirements are less obvious.

Since September 2024, new listings need documentation already on file: product certificates, ISO 17025 lab reports, NRTL certifications, MSDS, tracking labels. Selling into the EU adds GPSR distributor obligations and Extended Producer Responsibility rules that vary by category.

None of it is optional, and Seller Central won't walk you through it. Which of these four catches your team off guard most often?

Read more: https://zurl.co/hfFw2

11/08/2026

Most REACH violations aren't intentional. They're inherited. 📋

This isn't about bad intent. It's about broken communication between suppliers, manufacturers, and buyers. A supplier changes a raw material. A Safety Data Sheet doesn't get updated. That gap sits quietly in your supply chain until an EU importer asks for it.

In our latest webinar, QIMA's Dr. Dinh Duy Hai walked through where these gaps start and what Vietnamese exporters can do before their next EU shipment.

If you missed it or want to share it with your team, the Vietnamese recording is now available.

👉 Watch the webinar on demand here:https://zurl.co/MMfME

11/08/2026

11% in the EU. 7% in North America.

That's how much nearshoring and reshoring accounted for in QIMA clients’ service volumes in Q2.
Both behind 2025 averages.
The plans exist. The reality isn’t scaling. When Hormuz closed and Asian factory capacity tightened, Western buyers found their alternatives were still on paper.

Q3 2026 Barometer — link in bio

05/08/2026

Moving production out of China can solve some of your problems… and also create brand new ones.

Case in point: Vietnam and Bangladesh have been big with Western supply chains looking to diversify. But both depend heavily on imported Middle East fuel to keep factories running – and when the Strait of Hormuz closed, they hit the same bottleneck. As did many other supplier hubs in Asia.

The lesson here? Diversification does not stop at geography. Energy diversification is a whole different exercise, and one often missing from a standard risk assessment. Time to check your list?

Q3 2026 Barometer: https://zurl.co/fe4kh

04/08/2026

Most compliance failures in licensed merchandise programs aren't testing failures. They're information-flow failures.

The brief that never reached the factory floor. The licensor spec that updated without anyone reconciling it against the regulatory standard. The failure pattern nobody could see because the data lived in five different systems.

Which is why the instinct to respond with more testing usually treats the symptom, not the cause.
We break down all three patterns on the new Supply Chain Soundbites, with regulatory context for the US, EU, and UK. About 7 minutes.https://zurl.co/dWjoK

30/07/2026

𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗖𝗛 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺. 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁.
The EU importer is the legal entity responsible for bringing goods into the market, and that responsibility does not transfer to a supplier abroad.

𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻. 0.1% w/w is the SVHC concentration limit, and it is calculated per component rather than per finished product. 1 tonne per year is the registration threshold, which governs a different obligation altogether.

𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵, 𝗽𝗹𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘅 𝗫𝗩𝗜𝗜 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀: https://zurl.co/R56L5

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