China Trade Fairs Calendar 2027 for Overseas Buyers (Canton, East China, Yiwu and More)

For 2027, the Canton Fair date this calendar will print is the 141st session: 15-19 April, 23-27 April, and 1-5 May, negotiation 9:30 to 18:00. Other 2027 buyer-fair dates were not on an organiser page that loaded.

Last fact-checked: 9 November 2026. A calendar that fills empty months with last year's pattern will send you to a closed hall. Empty months stay empty here.

The phase-by-phase product list for the 141st session is Canton Fair dates and phases. The Yiwu Fair's last published session is the Yiwu Fair buyer notes.

How a date gets onto this page

It has to be on the organiser's own site, with a session number, and the page has to load. A government repost, a hotel PDF, and a LinkedIn line are not enough, because those are how the East China Fair date ended up in other people's articles while the fair's own site did not open. On 9 November 2026, iwteexpo.cn and iwteexpo.com.cn returned no page from this network. The 2027 East China Fair dates are therefore unavailable. They are not "early March" and they are not "TBC." They are unpublished, here.

What was actually on the page

The 141st line is the English general-information page, release date on the page 4 November 2026. The same three phases, the same hours, and the same address are on the Chinese "current session" about page. The 140th and 139th lines are the official session page that still shows both. The Yiwu line is en.yiwufair.com. The floor plan for the 141st session was marked "coming soon" on the general-information page, so hall numbers are not part of this calendar.

The general-information page also prints exhibition area of 1.55 million square metres, 32,000+ exhibitors, and, for the 140th, 352,000 overseas buyers from 219 countries and regions. Those are the page's figures for scale. They are not a forecast for your category.

Gap days are part of the calendar

Between 19 April and 23 April 2027 the 141st page lists no phase. The same is true of 28-30 April, between Phase 2 and Phase 3. The spring 2026 handbook called the equivalent gaps a changeover. The 141st page does not use that word. What it does say is that no phase is open. Do not book booth meetings on those days. A supplier who says "come on the 21st, the fair is on" is talking about a building that, on the published calendar, is between phases.

What this calendar refuses to do

It will not mirror October 2026 into October 2027 and call the result the 142nd session. The 140th dates are a record of a fair that has finished. The next autumn dates are the organiser's to publish.

It will not add furniture fairs, toy fairs, or electronics fairs by memory. A fair with no organiser page checked this week is not a row. When you need a market instead of a fair, the year-round option already written up is the Yiwu market, and the decision between fair and market is Canton Fair versus Yiwu.

A typical case

A buyer of home textiles wants "the China show in spring 2027." Textiles sit in Phase 3 on the 141st product list, 1-5 May 2027, not in the April weeks. She copies those five days, adds the night of 30 April because 1 May starts at 9:30, and she does not add a Shanghai fair "the week before" from an old blog. If the East China Fair later publishes a date on its own site, she can revisit the trip. Until that page loads, the only bars on her calendar are the three Canton Fair phases. The order she hopes to place is FOB, LCL if the booths are many and small. The show is how she chooses the suppliers. It is not the shipping term.

Ways calendars waste a ticket

One date for "Canton Fair April 2027." There are three phases and two gaps. The product decides the phase. The dates page is the decision table.

A Yiwu Fair date carried forward a year. The organiser had not posted the next session on 9 November 2026. The market was still the place to buy in the meantime, on its own hours.

Trusting a date whose only source is a hotel's rate sheet or a trade office that copied someone else. If you cannot open the organiser's page and see the session number, the date is unavailable, including when the office sounds confident.

Questions a 2027 calendar should be willing to leave blank

What are the China trade fairs in 2027?

The one fully dated on an organiser page checked on 9 November 2026 is the 141st Canton Fair, in three phases. Yiwu Fair's next date is unpublished. East China Fair's next date is unpublished because the sites did not load. Autumn Canton Fair 2027 is unpublished.

Is the Canton Fair the same as the China Import and Export Fair?

Yes. That is the name on the general-information page: China Import and Export Fair, also called the Canton Fair. The complex address is No. 382 Yuejiang Zhong Road, Guangzhou 510335.

Where do I go if my fair is not on this list?

To that fair's organiser, not to a longer list on a sourcing blog. Country import steps, once you have suppliers, start at import from China. A trip you want hosted is a buying trip. The product and the phase go on an RFQ.

Sources

• Canton Fair: General information. Release date on the page: 4 November 2026. 141st phases, hours, address, exhibitor and buyer figures, floor plan coming soon.
• Canton Fair: current-session about page (Chinese). Same 141st dates, hours, and address. Checked 9 November 2026.
• Canton Fair: 140th and 139th session dates. Past sessions, still published on that page.
• Yiwu Fair introduction and fair information. 32nd session only. Next date not published.