1.Who the company is
These terms are issued by the trading business that publishes this site for Gou Ze Trade, operating under the full company name Tongshan Gouze Trading Co., Ltd.. The business coordinates supplier networks, plans cross-region distribution, liaises between warehouse floors and buyers, supports quality inspection, prepares export documentation, and gathers market feedback reports. Its operational base in written records is No. 278, Group 6, Guantang Village, Dafan Town, Tongshan County, Xianning - 437000, China (CN).
On this page the words the Company, we, and us refer to Tongshan Gouze Trading Co., Ltd. and to the Gou Ze Trade staff who run the website. The words you and your refer to the visitor, the client, the prospective buyer, or the company representative who reads these pages, depending on the context. Where a clause distinguishes between a visitor and a client, the label appears in that clause so there is no doubt about which duty applies.
2.Acceptance of these terms
When you open a page on this site, when you send a message through the contact form, when you telephone +18456093758, or when you sign an engagement with the Company, you accept the rules of these Terms of Service. If you do not accept a single clause, you should stop using the site and decline any engagement before work begins.
Acceptance does not require a signature for the reading of the site. It becomes formal the moment you send an inquiry or place an order, because the act of sending is itself a request for the Company to act. Our reply to that request, where it states a price, a scope, and a timeline, becomes the proposal that you may accept in writing. Full formal acceptance of any trading engagement always needs a signed confirmation from both sides, as the ordering section below explains.
We will not hold you to a hidden term. Everything that governs a commercial relationship appears either in these terms or in the signed order document, and where the two conflict the signed order wins for that transaction.
3.Purpose of the website
The site exists to describe the coordination services of the Company and to let interested trade parties begin a conversation. It is a business information and enquiry channel, not a consumer marketplace. The site does not set up an online store, and nothing on these pages is a binding offer by itself.
Visitors may read, print, and share the information about services presented in the normal course of evaluating a vendor. They may complete the contact form and may write to hello@gouzetrade.buzz with a commercial inquiry. The services themselves are performed off the site, on the warehouse floor and in the transport lanes, so the website is best understood as the door to that work rather than the work itself.
All content, prices, and descriptions on the site are subject to change without advance notice, because trading conditions shift quickly. A change on the site does not alter the terms of an order that was already accepted in writing.
4.Your responsibilities
You agree to give the Company information that is accurate at the moment you send it and to update that information when it changes. Where you act for a company, you confirm that you hold authority to bind that company to the requests you make, including price acceptance and delivery instructions.
- You will not send through the form content that is unlawful, defamatory, or intended to mislead the Company about a product, a volume, or a delivery site.
- You will not attempt to disrupt the site, to probe its security, or to harvest the contact details of other visitors.
- You will specify your product accurately, with intended use, so that inspection and documentation match the true nature of the goods.
- You will provide valid import licences, restricted goods approvals, and any buyer compliance detail before the Company books a lane that your goods require.
- You will pay on the schedule stated in your order and will keep a current contact line reachable on the phone number the Company records.
Failure to keep a responsibility on this list can delay a shipment, raise the cost of a lane, or cancel an engagement. Where your failure causes a loss to the Company or to a haulage or warehouse partner acting for it, you agree to cover that loss in accordance with the liability clause of these terms.
5.Quotations and acceptance
A quotation from the Company is a working estimate that describes goods, volumes, service scope, fees, and a delivery window. A quotation is valid for a stated number of days, usually fourteen, and may be withdrawn earlier if the cost of a lane or of raw materials changes sharply.
To accept a quotation you reply in writing stating acceptance, you counter-sign the quotation, or you send an order that matches the quotation terms. The Company considers the engagement formed only when it confirms your acceptance in writing. Until that written confirmation, no duty to supply a service, to buy goods, or to hold a lane exists on either side.
Any difference between the wording of your acceptance and the wording of our quotation, such as a changed volume, a changed delivery address, or a changed price, is a counter-offer rather than an acceptance. The Company must approve that counter-offer in writing before it becomes part of the order.
6.Orders and channel engagements
When a quotation is accepted, the Company raises an order confirmation that identifies the client, the goods or services, the pricing, the timeline, the quality standard, and the responsible coordinator. That confirmation, together with these terms, forms the contract for the transaction.
An order may be a single delivery engagement for one lot, or it may be a channel engagement that runs across a season with recurring pickups. A single order is described wholly in its confirmation. A channel engagement sets a framework, and each pickup within it is confirmed separately so that dates, volumes, and prices stay accurate for every cycle.
The Company will not leave a client without a voice. Every order names the coordinator who answers for it, and that person is reachable through hello@gouzetrade.buzz or +18456093758 during business hours. Changes to an order must be agreed in writing before they affect the work, the paperwork, or the invoice.
7.Scope of coordination services
The services the Company offers are set out on the services pages of this site and are summarised here so the boundary of the work is understood.
- Supplier network coordination. We vet and schedule the workshops that make or finish a client product, keep lead times, and hold backups for core categories.
- Cross-region distribution planning. We choose lanes, carriers, and consolidation for each delivery zone and re-plan on any delay.
- Warehouse and inventory liaison. We run a single ledger at our site in Guantang Village, tracking receipt, location, rotation, and stage.
- Quality inspection support. We verify count, dimension, finish, and packaging against agreed standards before dispatch.
- Export documentation assistance. We prepare and check invoices, packing lists, bills of lading, and certificates for the border.
- Market feedback reports. We summarise sell-through, claims, pricing pressure, and assortment ideas after delivery.
A client may commission all six services as one suite or take single steps. The Company acts as coordinator and agent named in the order; it does not become the manufacturer of the goods, the registered haulier, or the insurer of the cargo unless an order says so in so many words.
8.Pricing, taxes, and payment
Fees are quoted in the currency named on the quotation. Unless the order states otherwise, quoted figures cover the coordination and handling fee agreed with the Company and may or may not include the goods cost, the freight, the duties, and the taxes, which are each stated line by line on the confirmation.
Payment terms are stated on the invoice and commonly ask for part payment before production or pickup and the balance before or at delivery. Electronic transfer is the usual route, and the invoice shows the account that has been verified for that order. You should never pay to an account that is not listed on your order confirmation without first telephoning +18456093758 to check it.
If a payment is late, the Company may put a hold on new lanes, may reschedule a pickup, and may charge the late interest rate that the order specifies or, failing that, the rate that commerce in the delivery region routinely applies. Taxes and duties charged by authorities are passed to you at cost as shown on the invoice, and the Company does not add a margin to them.
9.Shipping, delivery, and risk
Delivery dates given in an order are estimates based on the lane, the carrier, and the season. The Company works to meet every agreed date, but a delivery date is not a guarantee against port delay, weather, or border inspection that no planner can fully control.
The point at which risk passes from the seller to the buyer is set by the trade term written on the order, such as the conventional terms used at the named delivery point. Where an order does not name a trade term, risk in the goods passes at the physical handover from the Company or its haulage partner to the carrier or the consignee that the order identifies.
The Company will choose routes and carriers that are sound and tested. Insurance is not included in the quoted fee unless the order states otherwise, so a client who wants cargo cover through the full ocean or overland leg should ask for insurance as a separate line on the confirmation and pay the premium that accompanies it.
10.Inspection and claims
Before dispatch, the Company inspects the lot to the standard agreed on the order. Inspection covers count, dimensions, finish, and packaging, using the approved standard as the reference. Where the standard is not stated, the Company uses a fair commercial standard appropriate to the category of goods.
After receipt of the shipment, a consignee who finds a shortage, damage, or a major defect must tell the Company in writing within the time the order names, normally within a few calendar days of receipt, and must give clear photographs and a description. This notice lets the Company and its insurer act at the right moment rather than weeks after an event has taken place.
A claim will be dealt with in one of three ways chosen by the Company together with the client: a repair or replacement of the defective lot, a credit against the next order, or a refund of the price for the defective portion. A claim never covers damage caused by improper storage, misuse, or normal wear of the goods after they have been sitting in a client warehouse for a long period.
11.Documentation and export terms
The Company prepares export documents to the detail that a real shipment needs, and it checks that names, codes, weights, and values align across the set. Accuracy depends on the client giving a correct product, value, and country information at order time, and the client is responsible for the truth of that underlying commercial data.
Where the goods require an export licence, a certificate of origin, a phytosanitary check, or a restricted goods approval, the Company will flag the requirement early and will help gather the correct certificate from the workshop or authority. It will not ship a lot it believes is improperly declared, and it will not accept an instruction to label or declare a product falsely.
The Company gives each consignee a readable document set in digital form and, where a paper copy is needed, a printed binder. Corrections are reissued quickly from the correct revision. Responsibility for the final declaration to a customs authority rests with the party named as the exporter in the order, and the Company acts within the authority that the order grants it.
12.Intellectual property and data
The content of this website, including its text, its layout, its colours, and its visual style, is owned by the Company and Gou Ze Trade and is protected by copyright. You may view it and share it to evaluate a vendor, but you may not reproduce whole pages to pass off the Company work as your own, nor may you scrape the site to feed a competing offer.
Product data that a client supplies, such as drawings, specifications, packaging designs, and brand documents, remains the property of that client. The Company uses those documents only to perform the order and stores them with the confidentiality described below. On request, and after the order and its retention period are complete, the Company returns or destroys such reference material in the way the client prefers.
Any standard, template, ledger, or planning method that the Company develops in the course of its work stays with the Company unless an order assigns it to the client in writing. Access to personal data is set out fully in the Privacy Policy, which is a separate document linked from every page.
13.Confidentiality
Each side treats the commercial information of the other side as confidential. Client data such as pricing targets, product sourcing, customer lists, and delivery strategy stays within the staff of the Company and the parties who must execute the shipment. The Company marks a confidence as shared only where the transport, the workshop, or the border requires that share.
The duty of confidence does not apply to information that is already public, that a side lawfully receives from a third party without an obligation, that a side develops independently, or that an authority requires the disclosure of under law. When a required disclosure happens, the disclosing side tells the other side promptly so that it can protect its own position where the law permits.
The duty of confidence survives the end of an order and continues until the information falls into one of the exceptions above. Neither side uses the other side name, marks, or reference logos in a marketing claim without a separate written permission.
14.Warranties and disclaimers
The Company warrants that it will perform the coordination services with reasonable skill and care, using staff and partners who are tested and honest. It warrants that it will present paperwork that is accurate to the information the client supplied and to the actual goods inspected.
The website is provided for information as it stands. The Company does not warrant that every page will run on every device, that the site will never be unavailable, or that third party advice linked from the site is complete. Market figures, when shared, come from the trade information the Company gathers and are offered to guide a decision rather than to replace the client own checking of a lane or a supplier.
Downtime for maintenance, brief network limits, or correction of an error on the site will not give a visitor grounds for a claim, because reading these pages never obliges the Company to supply goods. Any goods supply or service supply carries the specific warranty written in its own order confirmation.
15.Limits of liability
Where the Company is found liable in relation to an order, its total liability to a client for any claim or series of claims arising in a single transaction will not exceed the total coordination fee that the client paid the Company for that transaction. This cap does not apply where a loss is caused by the fraud or deliberate misconduct of the Company, because no lawful contract lets a party limit a loss it caused on purpose.
Neither side is liable to the other for lost profit, lost opportunity, or indirect damage that was not reasonably foreseeable at the time the order was signed. A client who needs cover beyond this cap, such as full cargo value at sea, must arrange insurance or require the Company to arrange it as a priced line, because a small coordination fee cannot reasonably stand behind the full cargo value.
Nothing in these terms restricts a right that the law of your region says cannot be limited. Where a mandatory local rule grants a wider protection to a consumer, that rule wins over this clause for the protected party.
16.Force majeure
Neither side is in breach of an order when a delay or a failure is caused by an event beyond its reasonable control. Such events include natural disasters, port and border closures, major weather disruption on a planned lane, wide system failure, a general strike in the logistics trade, an epidemic control measure, or an act of the authorities that blocks the movement of the goods.
When a force majeure event happens, the affected side tells the other side as soon as it is safe to do so and gives a reasonable estimate of the delay. Work resumes as soon as the event clears. If the event continues beyond what the goods and the client can reasonably wait, the client may cancel the delayed portion of the order without penalty, and the Company returns any advance paid for that portion after the reasonable costs already incurred have been settled.
17.Termination
A client may end a single order at any time before dispatch by telling the Company in writing. Ending an order early obliges the client to pay for the work, the materials, and the lane costs that the Company had already committed before the notice arrived, because those costs cannot be unspent.
The Company may end an order if a client fails to pay, fails to give accurate instruction, or acts in a way that breaks the law or endangers the staff at the warehouse. Ending for such a reason releases the Company from further performance, and any money owed for work already done remains due.
A framework channel engagement may be ended by either side on the notice the order states, normally thirty days. Pickups already confirmed before the notice will still be completed on their agreed dates unless a separate termination term applies to them.
18.Governing law and disputes
These terms and each order under them are governed by the law that applies to a trading company based at No. 278, Group 6, Guantang Village, Dafan Town, Tongshan County, Xianning, China. The sites of the business and the movement of most goods touch that region, so its law provides the natural and stable frame for the trade.
Before any formal step is taken, the sides will try to settle a disagreement by friendly negotiation, because both trade on repeat trust rather than on one transaction. If negotiation does not resolve the matter within a reasonable period, the dispute may be referred to mediation as the order may name, and failing that to the court that has jurisdiction over the Company place of business.
For a client who lives outside China, the practical effect is that the client should read these terms with local counsel where the client wants comfort about jurisdiction. The Company will not waive a proper legal defence just because negotiation is offered as the first step.
19.Changes to these terms
The Company revises these Terms of Service when services, law, or practice change. The effective date at the top of the page shows when the current text applies. A change that affects the reading visitor is announced on the homepage before it takes force.
Terms that affect an existing signed order do not change without the agreement of both sides, because a signed contract fixes its own conditions. A change to the generic website terms binds only visitors and engagements signed after the change appears, unless a client agrees in writing to carry an older order under the updated terms.
20.Contact and notices
All formal notices and all day to day questions on an order go to the coordinator named in the order confirmation, with a copy to hello@gouzetrade.buzz. The reliable telephone line is +18456093758, staffed during the hours described on the contact page.
A written notice is treated as given when it is sent to the email or the address that the other side last confirmed, whether or not the bearer reads it immediately. The Company official address for written notices is No. 278, Group 6, Guantang Village, Dafan Town, Tongshan County, Xianning - 437000, China (CN). Visitors should use the form or the mail above rather than a social media account to reach the Company about a live shipment.
21.Severability and waiver
If a court finds that one clause of these terms has no legal force, that clause is cut from the rest and the remaining clauses continue to bind the sides as fully as they did before. This way a single draft line cannot drag a whole agreement down.
A delay by either side in acting on a breach does not mean that side gives up its right to act later for a fresh breach. A waiver of a right in one case is not a permanent waiver, and the releasing side has to waive in writing for the release to count. The headings of these terms exist to help the reader find a clause; they do not change the meaning of the clause that follows them.
This set of terms, together with the Privacy Policy and each signed order confirmation, forms the entire understanding between you and Tongshan Gouze Trading Co., Ltd. regarding the use of this website and the coordination services. Reading them is the honest first step to a clean trade, and we look forward to serving you from our dock in Guantang Village.
Effective date of this version: 4 September 2026.