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This is the buyer’s guide written from the factory side of the transaction. It covers what Jilin Ever Creation actually carves and ships, how our packing decides your landed cost, the order minimums and payment terms behind every quotation, and what we can and cannot document about the timber we work. No market forecasts, no invented margins—just the specification sheets a purchasing manager needs before committing a season’s open-to-buy.
Everything below describes our own production line. If you are comparing us to another supplier, use these headings as a checklist and ask each factory to answer them in writing; a supplier who cannot state pieces per inner box and gross weight per master carton is a supplier who will surprise you at the freight invoice.
Key Takeaways
- Every piece is carved and painted by hand from solid wood—basswood, pine, rubber wood and birch—with 3D carvings running 5 to 40 cm and flat 2D work up to 80 cm.
- Packing is fixed and predictable: 6 to 12 pieces in a 3-ply inner box (21 x 11 x 14 cm), 240 to 480 pieces in a 5-ply export master carton (58 x 44 x 31 cm) at roughly 8 to 15 kg gross.
- Master cartons pass the ISTA 3A drop test, which is the difference between retail-ready stock and a claim photo.
- Trial orders start at 100 pieces with a USD 500 minimum order value by air express, door to door, in 20 to 30 days; wholesale and custom programmes start at 300 pieces with a USD 3,000 minimum by sea, 60 to 90 days to port.
- Custom printed colour boxes start at 500 pieces, and payment is 30% deposit with the 70% balance before shipment, after photographs and video of the finished goods.
- Certification runs to BSCI, ISO 9001 and, on the relevant lines, CE, UKCA, RoHS and EN71 for non-toxic paint—documentation travels with the shipment.
- Timber traceability is documented through official felling and transport permits; we do not sell our carvings as FSC-certified wood, because certified basswood is not currently available to us.
Table of Contents
What the Factory Actually Ships
Jilin Ever Creation is a B2B carving workshop exporting under the ewoodarts name. Nothing we ship is moulded, pressed or resin-cast: each item is cut from a solid blank, carved, sanded and then painted by hand with non-toxic, eco-friendly paint. That single fact drives everything else in this guide, because hand work produces the dimensional variance and the artisanal character your customers will notice on the shelf.
Four species cover our catalogue: fine-grained basswood for detailed carving, resilient pine for larger rustic pieces, rubber wood for flat goods and structural parts, and birch for ply-backed items. Three-dimensional carvings run from 5 cm ornaments up to 40 cm display pieces; flat 2D work—coasters, cut-out shapes, wall plaques—goes up to 80 cm. Quality is managed under an ISO 9001 system and the site is audited to BSCI, so the check is procedural rather than a promise on a brochure. See how we inspect a carving before it is boxed in our OEM manufacturing process.
The Six Wholesale Categories That Move Best
Rather than rank categories by invented margin percentages, we group them by how importers actually reorder them: fast replenishment lines, seasonal lines, and giftable mid-price lines. These six hold the range.
1. Family Puzzles and Educational Toys
Interlocking carved sets and named-character pieces that double as shelf toys. Our wooden family puzzle collection is the reference line for this group, and toy-bound SKUs are finished with EN71-tested non-toxic paint.
2. Seasonal Decorations and Ornaments
Tree hangings, advent shapes and Easter sets, ordered against a shelf date rather than a replenishment cycle. Browse the wooden ornaments wholesale range for the current tooling, and read how seasonal ornament pricing behaves at retail before you commit a buy.
3. Children’s Money Banks
A giftable mid-price line with a long shelf life and no season dependency. Our wooden piggy bank designs carry the stopper, slot and paint work as standard tooling.
4. Desk and Office Accessories
Carved animal pens, card holders and organizers. This is the easiest group to brand, because a small format takes an engraving or a colour box change without re-tooling the carve.
5. Home Decor and Carved Animals
Wall art, frames and decorative sculptures. Hand-carved birds anchor this group: see wholesale wooden birds for the species list, hand-carved versus resin ducks for the material comparison buyers ask for, and the bird gift set formats.
6. Garden and Outdoor Decor
Bird houses, plant holders and decorative garden stakes. Outdoor pieces are the ones to spec hardest on paint and end-grain sealing, because your returns will come from a frost, not from a carve.
Packing, Cartons and the Numbers Behind Landed Cost
Freight is quoted on cartons and cubic metres, not on your retail unit count, so the packing sheet is the document that actually sets your landed cost. Here is ours.
| Layer | Specification | What it means for you |
|---|---|---|
| Individual piece | Wrapped in white paper | Scratch protection during transit without a plastic bag against wet paint |
| Inner box | 3-ply board, 21 x 11 x 14 cm, 6 to 12 pieces | The shelf-ready split: your store receives display units, not loose stock |
| Master carton | 5-ply export board, 58 x 44 x 31 cm, 240 to 480 pieces | Piece count per carton varies with item size; the carton count is what freight sees |
| Gross weight | About 8 to 15 kg per master carton | Safe for two-person warehouse handling without a lift |
| Transit testing | Cartons pass the ISTA 3A drop test | The packaging is proven, which is what a carrier claim requires |
| Branding | Custom colour or gift boxes from 500 pieces; custom labels and markings available | Private-label retail without re-carving the product |
Two practical consequences. First, mix-and-match orders are limited by inner-box quantities, not by your enthusiasm: a 300-piece order spread across six SKUs means six partial inner boxes and more void fill. Second, if you sell through a marketplace fulfilment centre, its size tiers are set by carton dimensions, so the 58 x 44 x 31 cm master carton is the number to hand your 3PL before they quote you storage.
Minimums, Payment Terms and Lead Time
We quote from two entry points, both stated in the Product Bible rather than negotiated on a call. A trial order starts at 100 pieces with a minimum order value of USD 500, covers in-stock items, and ships by air express door to door in 20 to 30 days. A wholesale or custom programme starts at 300 pieces with a minimum order value of USD 3,000, opens the full catalogue plus OEM and ODM work, and ships by sea with production and transit running 60 to 90 days to port. Custom printed colour boxes start at 500 pieces.
Payment is by T/T: a 30% deposit opens production, and the 70% balance falls due before shipment—after we send photographs and video of the finished, packed goods, so you are approving what actually exists rather than a sample from last season. That sequence is why our AQL inspection routine is written into the schedule instead of bolted on afterwards.
Read the two minimums together with the calendar. A 60 to 90 day sea programme means a Christmas line is committed mid-year, while the 20 to 30 day air route exists precisely for the reorder you did not plan. If you are testing a new species or shape, trial it by air at 100 pieces, then move the winner to the sea programme at 300 and above. Our carving factory profile explains what happens between those two dates.
Talk to the Factory Before You Commit a Season
Send us the shelf plan, the target shelf date and the two or three categories you want to test. You get a packing sheet, a carton calculation and a written quotation against the minimums above, from an ISO 9001 managed and BSCI audited workshop.
Certification and Timber Traceability, Stated Honestly
Here is what we can document: a BSCI social audit, an ISO 9001 quality management system, and CE, UKCA, RoHS and EN71 conformity on the lines where those schemes apply—electrical and toy-relevant items in particular, where our non-toxic paint specification is written for the toy safety envelope.
Here is what we will not claim. The company holds an FSC certificate, but certified basswood is not reliably available to us at the volumes this workshop consumes, so we do not market our carvings as FSC-certified wood. What we can provide instead is timber traceability through the official felling and transport permits that accompany the round wood we buy. That is an honest answer, and it is the one your compliance team can actually file. If another supplier offers you a product-level FSC claim on carved basswood, ask which mill supplied the certified blank and what their chain-of-custody number is; a claim without a certificate code behind it is a printed logo, not documentation.
The same discipline applies to the wood itself: we work species that customers recognise into shapes that sell, and we source sustainable forestry stock within the limits above rather than printing a logo we cannot trace.
Classifying the Cargo: The HS Codes You Will Be Asked For
Your customs broker will want a code before they will quote duty, and getting it wrong is the most expensive clerical error in the whole import. Our wooden lines clear under HS 4420.1990 for wooden statuettes and decorative woodwork, HS 9505.1000 for Christmas articles, and HS 9608.1000 for ball-point pens. Seasonal pieces can sit in either the wood chapter or the festive-christmas chapter depending on design and presentation, and that single choice changes your duty line.
The classification itself is published by the World Customs Organization Harmonized System nomenclature, and US importers can look up the national subheading in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule maintained by the US International Trade Commission. We put the intended code on the packing list and let your broker confirm it; a supplier who will not name a code is a supplier who has not shipped before.
Custom or Ready-Made: Which One to Order First
Ready-made is the faster and cheaper path: existing tooling, in-stock availability, and it is the only route that fits the 100-piece air trial. You are competing on assortment and merchandising rather than on the product itself.
Custom starts at the 300-piece wholesale minimum and is where OEM and ODM work lives: your shape, your paint palette, your colour box from 500 pieces, your labels and markings. The trade-off is a carve-and-proof cycle before anything ships, which is exactly why a custom line belongs on the sea programme and not on an emergency air reorder. Our custom manufacturing process page sets out the stages, and the technical desk will tell you whether your drawing is carvable in basswood before you pay for tooling.
If you are stocking birds specifically, the wholesale wooden bird range and the decorative bird carving comparison are the two pages to start from; the pelican sourcing note shows how a single species turns into a retail line.
Wholesale Buyer FAQ
What is the smallest order Jilin Ever Creation will accept?
A trial order of 100 in-stock pieces with a minimum order value of USD 500, shipped by air express door to door in roughly 20 to 30 days. Wholesale and custom programmes start at 300 pieces with a USD 3,000 minimum order value and ship by sea.
How many pieces fit in one master carton?
Between 240 and 480 pieces in a 5-ply export carton measuring 58 x 44 x 31 cm, with 6 to 12 pieces inside each 3-ply inner box. Gross carton weight runs about 8 to 15 kg, and the cartons pass the ISTA 3A drop test.
Can you supply FSC-certified carved wood?
Not at product level. We hold an FSC certificate as a company, but certified basswood is not currently available to us in the volumes we need, so we document the timber through official felling and transport permits instead of printing a claim we cannot trace.
Which certifications do your painted carvings carry?
The workshop runs an ISO 9001 quality system and is BSCI audited. On the lines where they apply we work to CE, UKCA, RoHS and EN71, including EN71-tested non-toxic paint on toy-bound pieces.
When is the balance payment due?
A 30% T/T deposit opens production and the remaining 70% falls due before shipment, after we send photographs and video of the finished, packed goods so you are approving what actually exists.
