But Buyers continue to have the exclusive power to choose sources and commit orders. In normal times, Buyers know ‘Fashion’ is all about creativity and timeliness designed around consumer demands for quality and value. As we approach 2005, however, Buyers are faced with dominating uncertainties about changes in global trade policy. Addressing Buyer unfamiliarity in a time of uncertainty is a formidable challenge.

Without the e-Market, in uncertain times, Buyers will continue to use the ‘tried and true’, the familiar. Without the e-Market, intermediaries between Factories in China and Buyers in the developed consumer markets will continue to control and burden transactions between Factories in China and Buyers by trading on their trans-national relationships and unique familiarity. Without the e-Market, Buyers and their consumers will continue to be forced pay inflated prices for textile, apparel and home textile products made in Factories in China.

The e-Market is the surest way to rapidly and dramatically increase transactions because the Factories and their target customers - US and European Buyers – use common tools and common processes to bridge language and cultural differences.

The e-Market is unique to sourcing from Factories in China using familiar business processes that enable Buyers to quickly and confidently find Factories and manage sourcing in China.

The e-Market improves Factory and Buyer profit and performance by enabling critical business decisions to be made more confidently, in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost.

The e-Market makes the selection of Factories in China as the ‘Sources of Choice’ for Buyers everywhere because choosing Factories in China is easier, safer, more familiar and transparent.