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From my experience:

One supplier provided high quality samples. Do not know where they obtained them, probably from our then current supplier. Upper management forced the move to the supplier in China and the first several months of deliveries were barely useable and contained actual physical hazards to health.


One supplier provided high quality samples of printed material. In conversations with them the supplier informed me they would sell our printed material to anyone who wanted it, in other words anyone would have access to our printed materials and they would be the actual thing, no different from the ones we would use. Senior management forced us to go with the Chinese supplier. VERY high quality printed material, truly very high quality. Yep, they sold our printed material and the market started seeing counterfeits that were hard to distinguish.


Have you checked with Indonesia? I bought wood out of there for some time. Never had an issue, quality always matched samples. Of course, I used a middle-man buyer to minimize my risks. They also make wood flooring.


I would go local, you will have a short relationship with them, the costs might be higher, but you will have better control of the quality!