Yiwu Socks, Hosiery and Textile Accessories: Sourcing Notes

Last fact-checked: November 9, 2026.

Yiwugo's District 4 page puts socks on floor 1 in both the paragraph and the floor table. Hats, gloves, lace, towels, scarves, and underwear are on other floors, and the paragraph and the table do not name those floors the same way.

That is the useful fact for a Yiwu socks wholesale search, and for anyone who was sent to "the hosiery market" or "District 4" without a floor. The page, opened 9 November 2026, says the district was put into operation on 21 October 2008, occupies 1,080,000 square meters of building area, and holds above 16,000 booths. It calls this the sixth generation of Yiwu markets. The page does not date the booth count. Use the floor conflict below before you use the area figure to plan a walking route.

A typical case

A retailer wants 3,000 dozen ankle socks, three sizes, two colors, cotton as the face yarn, packed by size. The term on the quote is FOB Ningbo, and the cartons will share an LCL box with other small goods. This is a typical case. It names no supplier and no price.

The socks conversation is a floor 1 conversation. Underwear, if the same buyer also needs it, is a floor 4 conversation on both versions of the page. Treating them as one booth because both are "textile" is how a carton of briefs ends up on a sock invoice. Fiber, size, and pairs per carton belong on the quote before the deposit. How a minimum is counted, including when a second color restarts it, is the MOQ page.

The page argues with itself

Read the paragraph and the table as two lists from one URL.

Floor	Paragraph	Floor table
1	Socks	Socks
2	Daily necessities, gloves, hats and caps, knitted and cotton goods	Daily consumable, hat, gloves
3	Shoes, webbings, lace, caddice, towels	Towel, wool yarn, necktie, lace, sewing thread and tape
4	Bra, underwear, belts, scarves	Scarf, belt, bra and underwear

Socks are the one row both lists share without a quarrel. Floor 3 is the quarrel. The paragraph includes shoes. The table does not. The table includes wool yarn, neckties, and sewing thread. The paragraph's word "caddice" is left as printed; it is not translated here into a product you should go and buy. Knitted cotton goods in the floor 2 paragraph could be read as hosiery. The table does not put socks on floor 2. If a booth on floor 2 sells socks, ask for the booth number and keep it. Do not redraw the district map from one aisle.

The paragraph also says the district integrates logistics, e-commerce, trade, and catering, and it describes building systems. Those sentences do not tell you which gate opens onto socks. Floor 1 does.

What to write on the sock quote

Fiber comes first. A hanger that says cotton, and a quote that says cotton polyester, are two products. For the EU, fibre names and percentages on textile products are set out in Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011. The EUR-Lex text is the rule. A booth card is not. This article does not copy percentages out of that regulation. It says: put the composition you were promised on the quote, then check it against the label rule for your market.

Size and color are the second trap. Three sizes can be one article or three articles, depending on whether the mill knits them on one minimum. Ask. Pairs per carton matter more than carton count alone, because a dozen and a pair are easy to swap in a message thread.

Cloth by the meter, if you are also cutting your own socks or garments, is a Keqiao question, not a District 4 question. See Keqiao fabric. Where socks are made as a product category, separate from this building, is where socks are made.

Hours, and the other operator page

Trading hours are not on the District 4 page. Chinagoods, opened the same day, prints customer-service hours for a District 2 desk and a hotline window of 08:30 to 17:00, Monday to Sunday. Those clocks are not a District 4 trading day. The Chinagoods page also says the group that runs chinagoods.com manages the physical markets. It does not reprint this floor table, so it neither confirms nor fixes the shoes-versus-yarn difference.

Toys and festival goods are District 1, not here: District 1 buying notes. Pens and sports goods are District 3: District 3 notes.

What usually goes wrong

• Following a blog that puts all of District 4 on one floor. This operator page already disagrees with itself. A third description will not settle it. Ask for the gate and the street number inside the market.
• Paying for "cotton socks" with no fiber line on the invoice. The label fight happens at your customs broker, not at the booth.
• Skipping the signed sample. Heel thickness and elastic are the usual surprises. Hold the bulk to the sample with the inspection checklist.

A walker who already knows floor 1 from floor 4 saves the day. That is the Yiwu agent job, not a fee quoted on this page. Several sock booths still collapse into one shipment through consolidation. Send the fiber, the size run, the pairs per carton, and FOB or another named term on the RFQ. The Incoterms rules that give those three-letter terms their jobs are the ICC Incoterms 2020 page. The International Trade Administration explains that each rule assigns tasks, costs, and risks. FOB Ningbo is a named port. It is not a price.

Frequently asked questions

Is the whole of District 4 a sock market?

No. Both lists on the operator page limit socks to floor 1. Other floors sell hats, gloves, lace, towels, scarves, belts, and underwear. Shoes appear only in the paragraph.

Why do guides disagree about District 4?

Because this one official page already prints two lists. Anyone who copies only the paragraph, or only the table, will publish a different building. Quote the URL and the date you opened it.

Can I buy the fabric and the socks in the same district?

Sewing thread and lace are on the floor 3 table. Cloth by the meter, in the widths a cutter cares about, is the Keqiao market, not this floor.

See also Yiwu Market Guide for Overseas Buyers.

Sources

• Yiwugo: International Trade Mart District 4. Opened 9 November 2026. Operation date, area, booth figure, and the paragraph and floor table that agree on socks and disagree on other rows.
• Chinagoods: Yiwu market. Opened 9 November 2026. Service-desk hours and the statement that the group manages the physical markets. Not a District 4 floor list.
• EUR-Lex: Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011. Opened 9 November 2026. Textile fibre names and related labelling for the EU.
• ICC: Incoterms 2020. The three-letter rules named on a sock quote.