Foreign sourcing lists what is cheaper abroad, not only what is missing at home
A foreign good now appears in Foreign sourcing whenever an exchange abroad sells it for less than your home market, with the home price shown beside it. Your own asks at home no longer hide it.
Foreign sourcing used to hide any good that had a single open ask on your home exchange — at any price, in any quantity, even one you had placed yourself. Because every home exchange carries a standing backstop offer for most raw materials, whole categories such as Metals could never be sourced abroad, and listing your own production at home made the foreign offers for it vanish.
- The test is now a price comparison. A foreign exchange's best ask, converted at the reference rate, has to beat the cheapest ask on your home market, or the home market must not sell the good at all. Materials only — freight and duty still show in the delivered quote. - The home price is printed beside each offer, so the comparison is visible rather than implied. - Your own asks at home do not count as supply you could buy. Selling at home while sourcing cheaper abroad is a perfectly good plan.
A quote is refused with a clear reason if the home market catches up between listing and purchase.