Zhuji pearls: which grade faces which strand

A French buyer posts a broken freshwater strand back to Shanxiahu: “Grade and strand must face THIS restring. Market stall sign is not a grade. HK invoice OK.” Sales returns a Jewellery City stall number, a Hong Kong PI and an ungraded tray. The description says “Zhuji pearl, any grade.” The buyer asks which class this strand is, how many beads, and which ticket holds the diameter. Sales writes the stall-sign class into the manufacturer box.

Sorting says the tray changed this week and the old grade slip can take a new word. Threading says the sample strand is already undone and bulk is not yet strung. Finance wants a “pearl-city certification fee” in the unit price as officially required. Membership wired to ALIBABA.COM HONG KONG LIMITED will not buy a grade and will not buy this strand’s threading ticket.

Do not answer with “Zhuji pearls can all be strung.” Lock this strand’s grade and threading ticket. How Xuchang quotes hair and lace is on the Xuchang paper — a weft lot will not fill this ticket. How Haining quotes a hide lot is on the Haining paper — leather, not this strand. Origin is on China goods are not Hong Kong origin. Below follows the strand — not nameplate fields, and not a furnace number.

The grade on a sorting tray faces this tray — not the whole cabinet

Hong Kong-channel sellers quoting Zhuji necklaces, bracelets or loose pearls most often get asked about grade. Grade sits on the slip at the tray edge. The slip faces this tray, not the cabinet. A cabinet can hold several trays. Writing “the cabinet is all this grade” into the unit price fails when opening day faces the slip on that tray.

Beautiful pearl gives “China pearl city” to the city — see Beautiful pearl. A title is not an official grade certificate you can buy for a tray. Do not write “pearl city already certified” onto a grade slip. Do not invent official AAAA prices. The grade in the contract uses the name both sides accepted, and says which tray it was sorted from.

When a tray is sorted, the slip walks with the tray — not with the stall. If the tray pours into another box, the slip moves with it. If the slip is lost, this tray does not thread yet. Re-sort, write a new slip. Do not fill a grade from memory.

Leftover beads from the next tray do not pour into this booking’s tray to fill a count. The next tray may be another diameter. Pour them in and the ends of this strand will not face the middle. If beads are short, write how many this tray still lacks. Do not fill from the next tray.

Finance should not write a “pearl-city certification fee” into the unit price. The title is a city introduction. Sorting is quoted as this tray, labelled as process or material. There is no site-wide Zhuji pearl official fee.

If the buyer wants a sorting video, the frame faces the tray-edge slip and a caliper on a bead in the tray. Do not film the Jewellery City fountain. The fountain proves you reached Shanxiahu. It does not prove this tray’s grade. Hold the caliper long enough to read the number. A sweep is treated as not measured.

Two trays on the table at once each have a slip. They do not share one. A night shift merging two trays “to sort faster” breaks the grade by morning. A merge is a re-sort. The slip is rewritten. A merge without a rewrite is treated as a lost grade. This tray does not thread yet.

If the contract asks for lustre, shape or blemish, those words sit in this tray’s slip note — not on another tray’s flyer. A flyer is for showing a sample. This booking’s tray only accepts the slip. If flyer wording and slip wording disagree, opening day accepts the slip.

Freshwater and saltwater do not pour into one tray. If this booking is a Shanxiahu freshwater path, saltwater pearls open another tray and another slip. Writing “all pearls” as mixable fails when opening day asks origin. Origin still follows the work city. The tray edge writes freshwater or saltwater first.

If the contract splits nucleated and non-nucleated, the split sits on the tray-edge slip — not in later talk. Pouring a non-nucleated tray into a nucleated tray skews weight and shape. A skewed tray is re-sorted. The old slip is void. Do not hold the re-sort with “about round.”

If sorting-lamp colour changes, do not change grade that day. Grade faces this tray and this contract, not that day’s mood. A lamp change sits in the shop log. The slip grade does not move unless diameter and blemish are measured again and the slip is rewritten.

Bead count and diameter sit on the threading ticket — not on a stall sign

The threading ticket writes this strand’s grade, bead count, diameter range, thread length, clasp type and who threaded it. The two characters “premium” on a stall sign will not fill those lines. Pearl Town writes the scenic area in Shanxiahu — see Pearl Town. A scenic name is not a threading-ticket number.

Diameter is a range from a few calipered beads — not “about eight millimetres.” If the range does not face the tray slip, stop threading. Bead count is beads actually strung — not a “standard count” guessed from a necklace style. Two beads short, the ticket writes the packed count. Do not rename the style to pretend it is enough.

Thread length follows the buyer. A finished necklace and a half-finished loose strand do not share one ticket title. One class, one ticket. If a class is missing, write that this class is not yet threaded.

A Hong Kong company as contract seller does not make that company the grade authority. Titles are on document titles. Split the seller box from the grade slip.

If the inquiry is only “Zhuji pearl,” ask necklace or loose, diameter, and whether dye is in. Quoting a “per-strand price” before that question means opening day argues grade first.

Clasp type is specific: spring, insert, fold-over — not “ordinary clasp.” If the clasp is bought in, the bought-in lot sits in a note. A clasp and a bead are not one tray. Do not write a clasp model as the pearl grade.

Thread material sits on the ticket: silk, nylon, wire. A thread change is first a possible new ticket. Old thread yellow, new thread white — opening day asks whether it was restrung without a new ticket. A restring walks the void section. Do not change one word on the old ticket.

If the threader changes shift, the incoming shift reads the ticket before touching a bead. A verbal “thread that tray” faces the wrong tray. Both shifts write their names on the ticket. They write a ticket number, not a stall number.

If the ticket is electronic, print a page that walks with the tray. Two characters “strung” in a chat app leave opening day with no paper. The ticket number on paper must still be readable. Reprint if faint. The old page staples behind.

If the buyer specifies an extender, extender length sits on the ticket — not “as you like.” Those two words will not fill an opening. If the extender also takes beads, those beads share this tray’s grade and sit in a note on the same ticket. Do not open a second ticket without cross-citing the number.

A sample strand and this booking’s bulk strand are two trays

A stall try-on strand is the sample ledger. Bulk leaves this booking’s tray. The two trays must be explainable: which stall and which hangtag the sample left; which tray and which ticket bulk faces. A stall address does not go on the grade slip.

A sample strand may go to the buyer. Bulk does not undo the sample to fill a count. Undo the sample and there is no physical match later. Disputes start there. The sample stays. Bulk threads another.

The buyer photographed a stall sign and wants “bulk on this grade.” Reply: the sign proves a sample was seen; bulk opens another threading ticket. Quote the strand you can lock. A stall sample you cannot lock to a grade is a sample sale first. It does not go in a bulk carton.

If the sample strand is already sold to the buyer, bulk matches from a photo and caliper record. The photo must read the sample hangtag and a few diameters. Memory only is treated as “no match sample.” Grade writes this tray’s slip — not the stall’s spoken class.

Insurance and the waybill for a sample are the sample ledger. A bulk carton does not staple a sample waybill copy as origin. A stall number on a sample waybill will not fill a bulk threading ticket.

If the buyer posts the sample back as a match, the returned strand faces the outgoing bead count. Beads short — write how many, then decide whether bulk still threads the original tray or re-sorts. Do not pretend none were lost. Lost and unwritten, bulk threads to the wrong sample.

A sample strand and an advertising image are not one set. An image can be retouched. Bulk faces the physical sample and a caliper, not a retouched image. If the grade on the image and the slip on the sample disagree, the slip wins.

After a break and a restring, the old grade slip is void

Thread broken, clasp gone, beads added in the middle — this threading ticket is void. Open a new one. Bump the number. Say whether bead count changed and whether grade is still the same tray. The old slip does not leave with the goods.

If the restring moved trays, return to sorting first. A tray change may change grade. Writing “only the thread changed” as no need to re-sort fails when opening day faces the middle beads.

Beads taken off the old strand do not pour back into a neighbour booking’s tray. Bag them alone, marked “from old ticket XX.” Return them to this booking’s new tray if they can. If they cannot, open another tray. Do not mix.

If thread runs short on restring day, do not borrow a length from the next strand. A knot on a splice is visible at opening. A visible knot is treated as a changed strand. If thread is short, stop and wait for this booking’s spool. Do not finish and explain later.

A clasp model change rewrites the clasp line. If bead count did not move it may stay; the ticket number still bumps. Change the clasp without a new number and the warehouse picks to the old clasp. A wrong clasp on this strand comes back first.

A photo after the restring goes into the new ticket. The photo shows the new ticket number and the whole strand. No photo and the buyer treats it as the old strand. Withdraw old-strand photos from the forwarder’s inbox so two sets do not go out together.

Do not thread dyed and undyed beads on one strand and write one grade

One undyed strand, one dyed strand, each with its own ticket. Mixed on one grade means opening day asks which beads took colour. The dye lot sits on the dye ticket, then copies into a threading-ticket note. The two characters “enhanced” with no dye ticket will not fill a note.

If the buyer wants undyed only, a dyed tray does not go on this ticket. Put it on and the whole strand is treated as a grade miss. Do not splice a heavily dyed tray and a pale tray as a “gradient” unless the ticket writes gradient and both end diameters.

If bleach or lustre work was done, it sits in a process note. Unwritten, the buyer receives as undyed and returns on a miss. Do not replace the note with “Shanxiahu usual process.”

A dye ticket must show colour number, process name and which tray. A dye ticket with a blank tray number does not pour dyed beads into this booking’s threading tray. Pour them and the word “undyed” on the grade slip is false.

If the contract forbids dye, every slip on this booking writes undyed and the dye shop does not take these trays that day. Take and return them and the surface picks up fingerprints. Heavily marked beads leave the tray. The count comes off the threading ticket.

Dye can move diameter slightly. Measure again. The new range goes on the new ticket. Copying the old range fails the caliper at opening. A miss is a class change. Do not argue “dye always does that.”

A Shanxiahu market sample walk does not take this booking’s tray

East China Jewellery City can show a sample and talk. This booking’s tray sits at the process point. Do not take this booking’s tray to a stall that day to fill a count. Crowds lose tray-edge slips. A lost slip means a re-sort.

If the buyer comes from Hangzhou to see a sample, the itinerary writes the stall number and the process-point plate. Two places are not one ride. “Shanxiahu is all close” means the driver asks city or point first.

If the interpreter is stall reception, they can lead the way. They cannot accept a grade on a threading ticket. Reception sits in an itinerary note, not on the grade slip.

A sample walk carries sample strands and sample trays — not this booking’s bulk tray. A bulk tray leaving the point needs a threading-ticket copy. A tray with no copy is treated as not this booking at the gate. A stall invitation does not stand in. An invitation only enters the market. It does not take a process-point tray.

If a public sorting bay in the market is only a display, do not change this booking’s slip there. Display crowds take slips to compare price. Comparing is fine. A changed slip will not face this tray at night.

If a deal closes on a sample day, the deal record writes the sample hangtag number — not “that stall grade.” A hangtag number faces the sample strand. A stall grade will not face this booking’s tray. The deal record staples behind the later threading ticket. An attachment does not replace the ticket itself.

The process-point gate only releases people with a ticket number into the bulk area. People with only a stall card stop in the sample area. The two areas do not connect. Connected, this booking’s tray is handled as a sample tray.

Necklaces, loose pearls and half-finished each open their own threading ticket

The three classes do not share one title. A necklace has bead count and clasp. Loose pearls have weight or count. Half-finished may only have holes and a tray number. If a class is missing, write that it is not ready. Do not write loose-pearl grams onto a necklace ticket to fill a row.

A bracelet, if made, opens another ticket. A bracelet has fewer beads and may share a necklace tray. Same tray is fine. Tickets still split so opening day can count by piece.

If a setting is sent out, the outgoing note writes this tray number and grade. Returns face bead by bead. A setting that will not face does not thread back onto this strand. Xuchang writes which hair lot and lace face a wig — see the Xuchang paper. A weft grade will not fill this setting return.

Half-finished by gram and necklaces by strand — two units do not share one row without a mark. If the buyer wants grams, open a loose ticket. If they want strands, open a necklace ticket. Grams and strands in one row means the warehouse asks which count first.

A half-finished bead with no through-hole does not go on a necklace count. A blocked hole stops the thread. That bead leaves. Open a half-finished tray. Do not leave it in the necklace tray to fill a count.

Studs or rings that use a single bead open by piece — not as a “short necklace.” A short necklace has thread and a clasp. A single bead has neither. A wrong ticket sends the warehouse looking for thread. No thread and these beads are treated as missing pieces.

A set with a necklace plus studs still hangs two child tickets under a set ticket. The set ticket writes sets. Child tickets write strand and pieces. A set ticket only means opening day counts a set and cannot find the stud bead’s grade.

The grade sticker on the outer box must copy this strand’s threading ticket

Grade, bead count and diameter on the box copy the threading ticket — not a stall hangtag. Box says one class, slip on the strand says another — the opener sends it back first. Stickers go on in one pass. Do not seal the box and patch later.

If the outer box prints the Hong Kong English name, do not print Made in Hong Kong. Origin stays China and follows the sorting or threading city — see China goods are not Hong Kong origin. The commercial-invoice seller can be the Hong Kong company; fields follow 141.86.

Several strands in one box each have their own slip. Do not put one total grade on a box. A total grade will not fill an opening against a strand.

Lining colour must not be so dark the slip cannot be read. The slip is readable at first open. Unreadable is treated as no slip. Slip ink lasts. If pencil fades, rewrite a page and staple the old one behind. Do not erase.

If the box prints “China pearl city,” that is a city introduction, not this strand’s grade. Grade still copies the ticket. If box copy and slip wording fight, opening day accepts the slip.

If the buyer wants an anti-fake sticker, it sits on the box side — not on the grade slip. Cover the slip and opening day has no slip. The anti-fake number sits in a ticket note, split from the grade on the slip.

A gift box and a shipper are two layers. The gift box holds the slip. The shipper writes piece count and ticket number. The shipper does not write grade, so it is not read as another strand’s advertising. Grade only appears on the layer that can face the strand.

An air parcel only writes piece count — grade still sits on the strand

The waybill writes pieces and weight. Grade, bead count and diameter still sit on the threading ticket and the in-box slip. A waybill will not fill an opening. Xiaoshan or Yiwu airport only decides the flight — see the export documents checklist. An airport name does not write onto the grade slip.

FOB Hangzhou, CIF Paris, EXW Shanxiahu warehouse — the delivery point sits on the contract, not in the grade box on the ticket. If the buyer wants a warehouse address, return the actual despatch warehouse — not a Jewellery City unloading aisle.

A parcel video faces the threading ticket and this strand’s slip — not the town fountain. The frame must read grade and bead count. Unreadable is treated as no record for this strand.

Finance should not write a “pearl-city certification fee” or a “Jewellery City stall fee” into the unit price as officially required. There is no site-wide official price. The membership receipt does not go onto a threading ticket.

An RFQ that says “Zhuji pearl, any grade, HK seller” is asked first: can you lock this strand’s threading ticket? If you cannot, reply that there is no grade for this booking yet. Do not quote a per-strand price first.

If parcel pieces and box counts disagree, stop handover. Pieces are strands. Boxes are cartons. Write both lines. Write only one piece and the warehouse will bag three strands and think it is enough. Extra strands in a bag still each have a slip.

A break after arrival first faces the despatch ticket and the despatch photo. If the photo faces, treat it as a transit break and restring through the void section. If it does not face, treat it as a wrong strand and recall this box. The recall names the ticket number — not “those Zhuji strands.”

Insured value follows the contract. Do not write the class on the grade slip as the basis for a value. A class is not an official price. The insured amount is the number both sides accepted, marked as a contract number, not a market. There is no site-wide pearl insurance official fee.

A flight name sits on the waybill. The threading ticket still writes the strand. The two papers may staple together. The boxes do not copy each other. A flight name in the grade box means opening day asks whether this strand is another flight’s goods.

If the parcel goes courier, the courier stub does not replace the threading ticket. A stub has only a count. Despatch against the stub and not the ticket puts the grade slip in the wrong box. You need both. Face the ticket first, then hand the courier.

If weekend duty is only sample staff, bulk does not hand over that day. Sample staff accept stall numbers, not ticket numbers. Handover day needs someone who can read a threading ticket and count strands. They sign ticket number and strand count — not stall scenery.

If the inquiry writes “any grade,” reply that this booking only quotes the class the threading ticket can lock. “Any” will not fill an opening. Quote the strands you can lock. Trays you cannot lock stay off the quote. A grade quoted today is not spoken one class higher tomorrow as “better.” A change walks re-sort and void. Do not change one word on the PI.

If the buyer only wants a photo to patch grade after arrival, reply that grade sits on the slip on the strand, not on a later retouched image. An image can help. The slip counts. A strand with no slip is treated as no grade for this booking. Do not draw a class on afterwards. A drawn class that will not face the physical strand is a wrong box. A wrong box comes back whole. Do not swap only a slip. A new slip and an unmatched strand wrongs the next box too.

Weekend stocktake counts strands by ticket number — not an estimated box count. Boxes match and strands do not: treat it as missing strands. Which ticket fills the miss sits in a stocktake note. Do not say “about the same” out loud. Those three words will not fill a stocktake. The stocktake sign-off writes ticket number and strands actually counted — not only “counted.” “Counted” will not face a strand.

Corpable can sit with you on whether the threading ticket, the grade slip and this strand face each other. We do not grade, we do not thread, and we do not guarantee entry. Membership still goes to ALIBABA.COM HONG KONG LIMITED.

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• Xuchang: hair and lace are another set
• Export documents checklist
• Contact Corpable · info@aliad.hk

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