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Evidence limits

Desktop evidence only

A desktop review is not an audit, certification, legal opinion, factory visit, or guarantee of supplier performance. Verify critical claims independently before you order.

Scope restrictions

Directly rejected

• Weapons and explosives: Weapons, guns, knives, ammunition, bombs, and explosives are directly rejected.
• Counterfeit and clear IP infringement: Counterfeit, replica, or clearly infringing trademark, copyright, or patent requests are directly rejected.
• Controlled goods and substances: Controlled goods, controlled substances, and narcotics are directly rejected.
• Tobacco and vaping goods: Tobacco, cigarettes, nicotine, vaping products, and e-cigarettes are directly rejected.
• Pornographic, hateful, or illegal material: Pornographic, hateful, abusive, or otherwise illegal material is directly rejected.
• Compliance evasion: We directly reject requests to evade sanctions, export controls, customs rules, certification requirements, platform rules, or IP rights.

Manual boundary

Owner review required

These categories are held for an owner decision before any scope or payment request.

• Batteries and dangerous goods: Batteries, lithium cells, power banks, and other declared dangerous goods require owner review.
• Magnets: Magnets, including neodymium goods, require owner review.
• Liquids and powders: Liquids, powders, oils, perfumes, and fragrances require owner review.
• Wireless goods: Wireless, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, radio, and transmitter goods require owner review.
• Food and supplements: Food, supplements, vitamins, and edible goods require owner review.
• Cosmetics: Cosmetics, makeup, and skin-care goods require owner review.
• Medical and pharmaceutical goods or claims: Medical, pharmaceutical, diagnostic, treatment, cure, and patient claims require owner review.
• Adult goods: Adult goods and sex toys require owner review.
• Child-safety goods: Child-safety goods, car seats, cribs, and baby gates require owner review.
• Brand and IP review: Licensed branded goods and other non-obvious IP-sensitive requests require owner review.
• Alcohol: Alcohol, beer, wine, and spirits require owner review.
• Precious metals: Gold, silver bullion, platinum, and other precious metals require owner review.
• Dual-use and advanced technology: Dual-use items, drones, high-performance electronics, and encryption goods require owner review.
• Specialty chemicals: Specialty chemicals and chemical precursors require owner review.
• Personal protective equipment: PPE, respirators, safety helmets, and protective equipment require owner review.
• Outside a structured safe profile: Free-text requests default to owner review unless a future structured allowlist can prove they fit the safe first-batch profile.

Initial operating lane

Safe first-batch profile

Unbranded, non-electrical, non-food, non-medical, battery-free, non-liquid, non-powder ordinary B2B goods are the safe first-batch profile; free-text intake still requires owner review until a structured allowlist can prove that fit.