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Browsing finds by category

Sixteen entries into a catalogue of listings, plus the honest limits of what a catalogue can tell you before an agent has the item in hand.

All sixteen

The sixteen category entries

Each entry opens a catalogue of listings in that category. Picking from a category is the easy half. The notes on each card are about the half that follows: how that kind of item behaves in a warehouse, in a photograph, and in a box.

Womenswear behaves differently from the rest. The catalogue sorts by garment rather than by who wears it, so there is no womenswear category to open and that card runs a search instead. The card says so, and the badge on it is different from the others.

All sixteen destinations were verified in September 2026 and re-checked in October. Listings change daily; the categories themselves are stable.

Definitions

What a spreadsheet is in this context

The word gets misread constantly, so: this is not a file. There is nothing to download, no cells, no tabs along the bottom. A spreadsheet in this context is a browsable catalogue of product listings, grouped into categories, maintained so that newcomers do not have to work out which of forty near-identical listings is the one people actually mean. You scroll it the way you scroll a shop.

What it gives you is a shortlist and a link. What it cannot give you is anything about the physical item: whether this particular seller ships quickly, whether the colour matches the photograph, whether the thing can legally leave China in the first place. Those are decided later and by other parties, which is what the rest of this guide is about.

Read it as a starting point and you will do well. Read it as a guarantee and you will be annoyed at the wrong people.

What Basetao does with a listing

Three panels in route order: the China export side decides Basetao's own policies and Chinese export rules, the carrier decides refusal lists and volumetric weight, and the destination side decides import rules and duty.
A catalogue decides none of these three. It just gets you to the listing.

Tools

The tools worth using before you order

Search by name, then narrow by category

Typing a product name into the box at the top of any page on this site runs a search across the catalogue. It is the fastest route when you already know what the thing is called. Categories are better when you do not, or when you want to see the range before committing to a search term.

Search by image when you only have a photo

Most finds circulate as screenshots with no text attached. An image search takes that screenshot and returns listings that match it, which is usually faster than guessing the Chinese name of a specific colourway.

Price and weight before you commit

Two numbers are worth checking before you order rather than after: what a line costs for your declared value and weight, and what the volumetric figure does to that. Basetao publishes a calculator for this and it does not require an account.

The check on this site

The one tool here that you will not find elsewhere sorts a single purchase into the three parties who can stop it, and tells you which official clause each obstacle comes from.

Shipping checkOfficial cost calculator

Quality

How to judge a spreadsheet site, including this one

Catalogue sites and guides like this one are easy to make and easy to abandon, and an abandoned one is actively harmful: it sends you to listings that no longer exist and quotes policies that have changed. Three checks separate the maintained ones from the rest, and all three take about a minute.

Click two outbound links

Not the internal navigation, the links that leave the site. If they land on a 404 or a redirect chain, nobody has read that page in months. This is the single most reliable test there is.

Look for a date next to a number

Any site quoting a fee, a percentage or a day count without saying when it checked is quoting from memory. Rates change without notice and the number alone is worthless.

See whether it says what it does not know

A guide that answers everything confidently has stopped distinguishing between what it verified and what it assumed. The useful ones are specific about their own gaps.

The same three checks, applied here

Basetao moved every policy page under a new address prefix in 2026 and set up no redirects, which broke every link written before that. We found this by clicking, re-harvested all eighteen pages from the live navigation, and logged the change with its date. Every figure on this site carries the month it was checked. Where Basetao's own pages contradict each other, both versions are quoted rather than resolved, and where something is unpublished it says so.

That is the standard being claimed here, and it is checkable. Click an outbound link.

The old storage policy address now returns 404 while the same page under the new best-taobao-agent-service prefix returns 200, with nothing redirecting between them.
How this site failed its own first check, in August, and what fixing it involved.