What are Thai Nguyen’s “four famous tea areas”, and where does La Bang fit?
The phrase “tứ đại danh trà” usually lists four Thai Nguyen tea villages. Where it comes from, how solid the list is, and what makes La Bang on the slopes of Tam Dao different.
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MOQ, price tiers and lead times: what to expect from a Vietnamese tea supplier
How TRAVINA – Tam Tra Viet Cooperative sets minimum orders, builds price tiers and schedules lead times for stock tea and private label orders, plus what to include in a request for quotation and why to order early before Tet.
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How Do You Request and Judge Samples of Vietnamese Tea Before Ordering?
A buyer's guide to Vietnamese tea samples: what to put in your request, what each sample pack should carry, how to cup samples against your purchase standard, which documents to check, and how to keep a reference sample so the
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Why is Thai Nguyen known as Vietnam’s tea land? The province in numbers
About 24,000 ha, more than 280,000 tonnes of fresh leaf and yields well above the national average: Thai Nguyen tea in numbers, with sources, after the 2025 province merger.
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How long has Vietnam been drinking tea? What old books in Vietnam and China say
From the Classic of Tea and a 14th-century Vietnamese chronicle to Le Quy Don and the French tea stations: what the written record says about tea in Vietnam, and where the evidence stops.
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Where are Vietnam’s ancient tea trees, and how old are they really?
Suoi Giang, Cao Bo, Giang Pang, Hoang Thu Pho, Ta Xua: where Vietnam’s ancient tea stands are, which are recognised Heritage Trees, and how to read claims of 400 or 900 years.
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Border trade or formal export: how does Vietnamese tea reach Chinese buyers?
How Vietnamese tea crosses into China: border-resident trade with its 8,000-yuan daily duty-free allowance versus formal export with GACC registration, Chinese labels and invoices, the main border gates, Vietnam's Decree 122/2024 and the costs and risks of each route.
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Who actually grows and makes Vietnam’s tea? Smallholders, cooperatives and factories
Vietnam’s tea comes mostly from households farming about 0.2 ha each, processed by family workshops, a few hundred factories and cooperatives. What that structure means for buyers.
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What must a Chinese label on imported Vietnamese tea include?
A practical checklist for the Chinese label on Vietnamese tea: food name, ingredients, net content, dates, storage, origin, Chinese importer details and the GACC registration number, plus what changes when GB 7718-2025 takes effect on 16 March 2027.
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Is Vietnam China’s biggest tea supplier? What the 2024–2025 customs numbers show
By volume, Vietnam was the largest source of China’s tea imports in 2024. By value it ranked behind Sri Lanka and, in 2025, India. What the customs data from both sides show and what it means for Chinese buyers.
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