Canton Fair Phase 1: Electronics, Hardware, Machinery and Vehicles

Last fact-checked: November 9, 2026.

Canton Fair Phase 1 is the electronics, hardware, machinery and vehicle session. For the 141st China Import and Export Fair, the organiser publishes Phase 1 as 15-19 April 2027, opening hours 9:30-18:00, at the China Import and Export Fair Complex, No. 382 Yuejiang Zhong Road, Guangzhou.

If the list is LED drivers, hand tools, or vehicle parts, this is the week. Gifts, furniture, clothing, and toys are not on this list. Those groups are published under Phase 2 or Phase 3.

A typical case

A buyer of LED drivers and hand tools is building about 8 CBM, quoted FOB, to move later as LCL. The names on the list came from a directory. The trip is five days. Two of those days are wasted if the halls on the schedule are the gift halls.

The organiser's English general-information page, released 3 November 2026, puts tools, hardware, lighting, household appliances, consumer electronics, and vehicle spare parts in Phase 1. The same page marks the 141st floor plan as coming soon. A hall number copied from an older map is not a plan for April 2027. Match the product to the published group, then send the shortlist through the RFQ form before the flight is booked.

Start with the SKUs. The hall comes after the group is confirmed.

What the organiser lists for Phase 1

The groups below are the 141st list on the exhibition-date page and the general-information page, both released 3 November 2026. They are not a shortened trade-magazine version.

Hardware and tools share the phase with electronics. A buyer who only walks lighting can miss the tool groups. A buyer who came for gifts is in the wrong week.

The dates around the week

The organiser's session page records the 139th spring as Phase 1 on 15-19 April 2026, Phase 2 on 23-27 April, and Phase 3 on 1-5 May, with daily talks from 9:30 to 18:00. The 140th autumn is recorded as 15-19 October, 23-27 October, and 31 October-4 November 2026. The 141st spring dates follow that April-May shape. That is what those pages say. It is not a promise that a later session will copy them. Read the page again before you ticket the trip.

Phase 1 ends on 19 April 2027. The next published dates are Phase 2 on 23 April. The organiser does not list 20, 21, or 22 April as a phase. Do not book a booth day on those dates and call it Phase 1.

A vehicle display is not a parts order

New energy vehicles and smart mobility, vehicles, motorcycles, and bicycles sit on the same phase list as vehicle spare parts. A booth for a vehicle and a booth for a filter are different buys. Importing a vehicle is a registration file in the destination country. This page does not set that file. A parts order can still move as ordinary cargo when the invoice describes parts. Do not let a vehicle display convince you that a mixed carton of parts clears as a vehicle, or the reverse.

Electrical goods have a second gate after the hall. The fair category means the product is exhibited. It does not mean a carrier will accept the carton, and it does not mean the destination authority treats it as unrestricted. Ask what is inside. Ask the carrier before you promise a customer a date. Write that question on the spec. Do not invent a packing rule in the aisle.

Machinery raises the same split between what you can carry and what you can only photograph. A construction machine on the stand is not an 8 CBM LCL lot. If the real order is a spare-parts kit, say so on the card. The FOB place still has to be named. Shared-container handling is a different job from the booth visit. The path is on how LCL shipping from China works and on consolidation.

What usually goes wrong

• Flying in on 20 April because a summary said the fair runs through early May. Phase 1 is already over. Phase 2 has not started.
• Navigating with a hall number from a previous session. On 3 November 2026 the 141st floor plan was still marked coming soon.
• Treating a booth card as a factory audit. The card is a lead. The company record is a separate check, the one on supplier verification.
• Putting LED drivers and gift boxes on one proforma because both were "bought at the fair." They were not bought in the same phase, and they may not belong on one HS code line.
• Reading FOB as "delivered to my forwarder's warehouse." FOB names a place. If that place is not the consolidation door, the truck is still yours to price.

Questions to write on the card

The useful hour after the hall is the sort, not another aisle. How that sort becomes a sample and a first order is on after the fair.

See also Canton Fair 2027 Dates, Phases and Which Products Each Phase Covers and Canton Fair Guide for First-Time Buyers.

Official sources

• 141st exhibition dates and product categories, released 3 November 2026. Phase 1 is 15-19 April 2027.
• General information, released 3 November 2026. Hours 9:30-18:00, venue, hosts, and the note that the 141st floor plan was coming soon.
• Session page for the 139th and 140th dates. Daily talk time 9:30-18:00, same complex address.