Less than ten minutes, signed an order of 2 million yuan!

International Trade City is the world’s largest distribution of Christmas supplies. Recently, as the market has been liberalized and shipping prices have continued to fall, overseas customers have flocked to Yiwu to buy goods in advance, which has kicked off this year’s Christmas shopping season at least two months earlier than in previous years.

Yiwu, Zhejiang Province: Overseas customers’ Christmas shopping ahead of the offline trade boom

At a stall in Section 1 of Yiwu International Trade City, buyers from Lebanon shop for Christmas clothes and hats. Selection, price negotiation, closing, less than ten minutes, they signed an order of 2 million yuan. They told reporters that the last time they came to Yiwu was 2019. Since then, they have been trading online. This year, they can return to offline purchasing.

 

In another stall selling Christmas crafts, the reporter saw that in order to make it easier for customers to select products, the operator has repositioned the store shelves and expanded the display area for new products.

 

It is understood that in the first quarter of this year, Yiwu International Trade City average daily foreign trade more than 1600 people, a year-on-year growth of about 30%.

Yiwu, Zhejiang Province: Christmas products new manufacturers order schedule to September

The early arrival of the Christmas shopping season has also kept manufacturers busy ahead of time, with many manufacturers placing orders three months ahead. Firing on all cylinders to meet orders became the norm.

 

At a company that makes Christmas balls in Yiwu, workers rush to ship newly assembled products to a warehouse. The person in charge told reporters that this year their orders increased by about 30 percent year-on-year.

 

In another production of Christmas tree products, the person in charge of the introduction, in previous years they mainly do Europe and the United States market, but this year increased a lot of new orders in the Middle East, South America market. The current shipment is a new order received at the end of April. More than 1,000 Christmas trees will be shipped to India.

 

In addition, the customer’s requirements for product quality also led to the continuous innovation of this year’s Christmas supplies, Christmas lights in different shapes, Christmas glasses inlaid with gold powder, bright colors and printed decorative ribbon, etc., adding many small details to the design.

 

According to the statistics of Yiwu Customs, in the first quarter of this year, Yiwu exported Christmas supplies of 100 million yuan, a year-on-year growth of 62.9%; Among them, the export to Latin America was 0.4 million yuan, up 114.8%.