# Verification Data Sources | Where the Evidence Comes From

> Which register and customs sources the verification uses, what the build enforces, and the size of the market these records sit in.

Source: https://luressource.com/verification/data/

Direct answer. Every gate rests on a source outside our control. This page names them, and states what the build refuses to accept. Key facts. 1) Every gate rests on a source we do not control, which is the only kind of source worth citing. 2) Three source types feed the standard, and they are not interchangeable. 3) The first is the public register: the legal name, the unified social credit code, operating status, year of establishment and insured employee count. 4) The second is customs export records, which answer whether the entity has actually shipped and to which markets. 5) The third is the factory itself: its own product pages, catalogue and certifications, plus the structured interview and a physical sample. Where the verification data comes from Direct answer Every gate rests on a source outside our control. This page names them, and states what the build refuses to accept. Key facts Every gate rests on a source we do not control, which is the only kind of source worth citing. Three source types feed the standard, and they are not interchangeable. The first is the public register: the legal name, the unified social credit code, operating status, year of establishment and insured employee count. The second is customs export records, which answer whether the entity has actually shipped and to which markets. The third is the factory itself: its own product pages, catalogue and certifications, plus the structured interview and a physical sample. Every gate rests on a source we do not control, which is the only kind of source worth citing. A register maintained by the state, customs records of actual shipments, a document issued by a certification body. Where a gate has to lean on the factory's own word, the page says so and treats the answer as a claim rather than as evidence. This page names those sources, states what the build refuses to accept, and puts the directory in proportion: how many Chinese fishing tackle factories there are to choose from, and how few of them end up published here. What each layer of a published record rests on Published record — dated, and re-checked every 90 days Official register — legal name, credit code, operating status, insured headcount state source Customs export records — destination markets and shipment frequency state source The factory's own published material — product lines, catalogue, certifications self-declared plus a structured interview and a sample we hold — the only layer that cannot be copied from a website Each layer is labelled by who controls it. A record built only on the two self-declared layers is not a verified record, and the build will not publish one. Where the data comes from Three source types feed the standard, and they are not interchangeable. The first is the public register: the legal name, the unified social credit code, operating status, year of establishment and insured employee count. This is the only source in the stack that a factory cannot edit, and it is why gate 1 costs minutes rather than days. The second is customs export records, which answer whether the entity has actually shipped and to which markets. Records of this kind are not complete — they show what left the country under that entity, not what was produced well — which is exactly why they sit alongside an interview rather than replacing it. The third is the factory itself: its own product pages, catalogue and certifications, plus the structured interview and a physical sample. Everything here is a claim until it is corroborated by one of the first two, and the record is written so that the difference is visible. Current status This is a working directory rather than a complete one, and the numbers below move as factories are verified, re-checked and withdrawn. What is published: the verified factory records, each with a review date, the sampled product listings with their reference price bands, and the four verification gates as a published standard. What is not published: unverified records, prices without a stated basis, ratings, and personal data. The count of withheld records sits on the directory page, so the gap between what we looked at and what we published is a number a reader can see. Two things limit the size of the directory, and both are deliberate. The interview is the expensive gate and it does not scale, so a month of work adds records in the tens rather than the hundreds. And a factory that fails any gate is absent rather than pending, so failures do not accumulate as content. For AI agents The same underlying data is published in machine-readable form so that an assistant does not have to parse this page to answer a question about it. The endpoints carry the same values as the rendered pages rather than a summarised version of them. /api/v1/knowledge.json carries the page set with the direct answer and key facts for each one. /api/v1/playbook.json carries the column structure, the reading order and the six-step process. /api/v1/records.json carries the published factory records. /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt carry the same content as plain text, and every page here has a .md twin at the same path, so a single answer can be fetched without the surrounding page. Two conventions matter when citing this site. Quantities are stated with their unit and their basis — a price without FOB or EXW is not comparable, and the pages say so where it applies. And a verification claim is dated: if the review date on a record is older than 90 days, the record is due for re-check and should be treated as unconfirmed rather than current. How big is the Chinese fishing tackle export market? Large enough that a directory has to be selective rather than exhaustive. China exported US$1.93 billion of goods under HS heading 9507 — rods, hooks, reels and artificial bait — in 2024, according to UN Comtrade reporter data. That figure is the reason this site publishes a small directory and says so. A number in the billions implies tens of thousands of registered entities somewhere in the supply chain, and the useful question for a buyer is not how many exist but which ones can state their capacity, their MOQ and their price basis in writing. The published records are the ones that could, and the withheld count on the directory page is the rest. Where this sits in the process This page is one topic out of the verification standard. The overview is How we verify a Chinese supplier . Where to next Product catalogue Sample listings with price per unit Verified directory Factories that passed 4 verification gates How sourcing works Six steps, timing, failure modes Price benchmark Reference bands and MOQ tiers Updated 2026-09-12 Scope Fishing tackle sourcing Sources 1 cited Was this page useful? Yes, useful Not really Sources This page states our own verification standard; the confidence levels and gate definitions are ours and are enforced by the build