The ones that actually recur.
Not the dramatic stories the sourcing industry tells — the failures that show up repeatedly in complaint data and inspection findings. Three of them, what causes each, and what can be established before you commit.
India’s own Directorate General of Foreign Trade runs a committee across its regional offices specifically to receive complaints from foreign buyers. Its published categories, and the guidance on settling them, describe what goes wrong far more reliably than anyone selling verification services — including us. These pages start from that.
There is a good deal you can check yourself, for nothing.
India maintains public registers that will tell you whether a company exists, what it has declared itself to be, and whether its filings are current. We have written down how to search them and where each one stops being useful.
The registers, and their limitsIf one of these is your situation.
Tell us what you are looking at and we will say what can be established, what would be in scope, and whether it is one for us.