No pressure. Ball in your court.
looking at what people are currently getting out of China.
Cheaper but questionable quality, recurrent issues with shipping, inconsistent communication and so on.
Dumpster fire. Wtf?
An ambitious domestic vendor with morals and a good plan would clean up.
Obviously best advice would be not sell schedule 3 CS illegally. But if you are dead set on it then set yourself apart. Pretty easy to do at this point. Start small and get your process dialed in. Get the fundamentals correct. Attitude is almost everything.
What will be your points of differentiation?