How to Import Fashion Jewelry from China: Complete Guide

Fashion jewelry has always been a hot area for business. China, as one of the biggest market of it, is a dreamland for fashion jewelry business. However, as for most jewelry dealers, the most confusing problem is how to import fashion jewelry from China.
This article will give you a comprehensive introduction of how to import fashion jewelry from China, including how to select products, how to find suitable suppliers, and some common problems with solutions.

Fashion Jewelry has always been part of fashion that catches up with date. Fashion jewelry runs the gamut from simple silver pieces to large cocktail rings. Selling fashion jewelry can be profitable as it fits the needs for female consumers of all ages, but also males to give as gifts. The fashion jewelry business is flexible, as there are many ways you can start and grow your venture, and it can be operated on a full or part-time basis.

China owns one of the largest markets on fashion jewelry. We produced all kinds of fashion jewelries. Every year the export volume of fashion jewelry from China is increasing, which brings China more opportunities for business on fashion jewelry.

If you are going to sell fashion jewelry, what you need to do is to follow the trend, even take a leap before it. So how is the trend today and how to follow it? Here is the way.

PANDORA magazine is one of the most famous magazines on fashion. You can find fashion jewelry made with different materials and big brands that sell well on fashion jewelry.

​Accessories magazine, so called the voice of the women's accessories industry, provides the latest reports of jewelry trend. You can find useful information here.

It’s one way to know about the trend and it’s another to know it for details. There are three main websites in China where you can find the best selling fashion jewelries. That’s better for us to search for suppliers.

Fashion jewelry made in China has lots of categories, and I divide them in the following form by types and manufacture areas.

Most products made in China have their own places of origin, so does fashion jewelry. No matter you are in China in person, or you are searching suppliers on Internet, like Alibaba.com, you need to pay attention to where the suppliers are located. By my experience, fashion jewelry made in China is mainly produced in the follow 5 places:

Yiwu is one of the biggest wholesale markets in China. Fashion jewelry makes a big proportion of Yiwu market. It is located in the east of No.1 District of Yiwu International Trade City.

If you are going to find some cheap but qualified fashion jewelry, Yiwu is a good choice. You can find all kinds of fashion jewelry here. And here also gather lots of suppliers all over China. It’s very convenient to source fashion jewelries here as the wholesale market is just like a huge fair. And if fashion jewelry is only one part of your business, you need to buy many other products in your container, and then Yiwu will be a suitable place.

The scale of many Chinese fashion jewelry factories is usually not big, and most their orders are getting from trading companies. Some of fashion jewelry factories also have shops on Alibaba, but they seldom get orders from foreigner buyers.

Fairs are always a good place to seek for suppliers. And here are three biggest fashion jewelry fairs in China, where you can take your chance.

Hong Kong is one of the six largest exporters of precious jewelry in the world. As the second largest jewelry exhibition in the world, Hongkong International Jewelry Fair has entered the thirtieth session. In addition to attracting more exhibitors and buyers, the exhibition also responds to market needs by adding a “small batch purchasing zone” to display jewelry for small batch purchasing.

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Address: Hongkong Convention and Exhibition Centre

Shanghai International Jewelry Exhibition invites the leaders of relevant national ministries and commissions, internationally renowned experts and scholars and relevant associations, internationally renowned brand operators, domestic and foreign brand jewelry manufacturers, domestic and foreign famous jewelry production and sales enterprises, retailers, wholesalers, channel manufacturers, domestic and foreign famous jewelry raw materials enterprises to participate in the exhibition.

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Address: Shanghai Expo Center

 Shenzhen International Jewelry Exhibition is a grand invitation full of opportunities for cooperation, a grand gathering of old and new friends and celebrities in the jewelry industry at home and abroad, a declaration of Chinese jewelry brands, a platform for the exchange of jewelry information, culture and commerce, a barometer of the trend of jewelry fashion in China.

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Address: ​Shenzhen Expo Center ​

How to find suppliers online? That is simple. In China, there are some online wholesale platforms that offer such services, such as Alibaba, Crov and Made-in China.com. And these internet addresses are listed in part 1 of this article.

Fashion jewelry products are usually bought and worn by female customers, and many countries have strict rules and high requirement for fashion jewelry. Except for this, fashion jewelry products still have other problems that make it little more complicated than other products, and here are several main problems you may have when import fashion jewelry from China.

Compliance test is very important when importing fashion jewelry from China as most countries and areas have their own regulations.

Metal contamination presents a consumer health and safety issue for fashion jewelry. Because of this, adult and children’s fashion jewelry must comply with REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) chemical regulations for nickel release, lead, cadmium and phthalates to be marketed in the EU. In the U.S., fashion jewelry must comply with chemical limits set forth by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) and California’s Proposition 65.

Fashion jewelry needs to do commodity inspection when exporting to other countries; the cost is $300-$400 for 1 container. If you ship by LCL, and the cost depends on the material and volume of the toy, usually more than $250.

One thing you need to pay special attention is design infringement. Many factories like to print some characters that don’t get authorized to do so. So if you want to import fashion jewelry in China, you need to make sure that the products you order get authorization or avoid such troubles.

Most widely-used shipping way of fashion jewelry is international express, because jewelry’s characteristics of rapid updating, small volume, and high requirement in timeliness. But there is still some large-quantity importers prefer using LCL sea shipping, as their total volume of one order is biggish. In order to catch the jewelry seasonal fashion, they will place the order few months earlier to offset the long-time in sea shipping.