China Trade Development Corp. is a full-service Asian trade consulting, market research, product sourcing, and export management firm founded in Chicago in 1979, and relocated to the Los Angeles area in 1985. We are the first Asia specialists in the United States to be granted antitrust protection by the U.S. Departments of Justice and Commerce under the Export Trading Company Act. Our primary business activity is the sale of industrial products into the People's Republic of China.