China Underwear Supplier | OEM & ODM for Brands and Importers

Xiamen Unitex Trade Co., Ltd. (Unitex Underwear) is a China-based underwear supplier for brands, importers and retail chains — men’s, women’s and kids’ knitted underwear, plus size, thermal, sleepwear and sport bras, developed and produced through long-term BSCI-audited partner factories in the Fujian knitwear corridor. In the trade since 2009, incorporated in Xiamen in 2013. MOQ 2,000 pcs per style and colour, FOB Xiamen.

China Underwear Supplier: Two Kinds of Company, One Decision

Searching for a China underwear supplier returns two very different kinds of company, and the difference decides how your programme runs. A single factory sells you its own machine park: its gauge, its capacity ceiling, its fabric relationships, its audit status. A sourcing company works the other way round. Unitex holds your specification, your QC checkpoints and your delivery date, then matches each order to the partner factory whose lines fit that style, that quantity and that compliance requirement. You keep one counterpart, one measurement chart and one AQL 2.5 standard across every factory that touches your order.

A single factory can only offer what it owns. If your order does not fit its gauge, its capacity in your window, or the certification your retailer requires, the conversation stops there. We are not tied to one building — which is exactly why we can move a programme, re-prioritise capacity ahead of a Chinese New Year cut-off, or split a mixed order across two partner sites without you managing five factory relationships yourself.

Why the Underwear Supply Chain Sits in Fujian

Fujian Province is where China’s knitted underwear is made. Within a short radius of Xiamen sit the fabric knitting mills, elastic and waistband weavers, dyeing and finishing houses, and accessory suppliers that an underwear programme depends on, plus the Quanzhou–Jinjiang corridor’s deep bench of cut-and-sew factories. Fabric, waistband, label and carton all come from inside the same cluster, so development cycles are short and capacity can be re-allocated between partner factories when a programme grows or a delivery window tightens.

Unitex is headquartered in Jimei District, Xiamen, and has coordinated underwear exports from this cluster since 2009 — the company itself was incorporated in 2013. Our liaison office inside the Jinjiang factory district, staffed since 2013, puts our own merchandisers and QC people on the factory floor every working day, following orders on the line and solving problems face to face with factory management. We do not own the factories and we do not pretend to. We publish that distinction openly, because it is the thing that determines what your order can actually do.

Where Buyers Search From — and What Changes

Most of the buyers who find us are not in Xiamen. They sit in the export and import hubs where their own businesses are based, and the questions they bring differ by city. A cross-border seller in Shenzhen asks about repeat runs and FBA-ready packing. A trading house in Hong Kong asks about re-export paperwork and Incoterms. A retail buying office in Shanghai screens compliance documents before it discusses price. A buyer in Ningbo thinks in containers and mixed loads. A wholesaler in Yiwu asks a question we answer honestly, even when the answer is no.

We wrote a page for each of those cities — not to claim we are based there, but because the brief a buyer brings is shaped by where they are.

Cities and Sourcing Hubs We Work With

• Xiamen — where we are based, and where the partner factories and our own QC team sit. The 3h10m–3h50m rail link to Shenzhen and the 3h30m link to Hong Kong West Kowloon make a day visit realistic.
• Shenzhen — cross-border sellers and export teams: repeat runs, retail-ready packing, and factory visits about three hours away by rail (there is no direct flight on the city pair).
• Guangzhou — buyers moving from Shihe and Shisanhang stock lots into a first branded programme, roughly four and a half hours by rail from Xiamen.
• Shanghai — retail buying offices and international brand sourcing teams, where compliance documentation is screened before price is discussed.
• Beijing — tender-style procurement, embassy and NGO buyers, and programmes where the document pack matters as much as the unit price.
• Hong Kong — trading houses and re-export programmes: one counterpart across many partner factories, with Xiamen three and a half hours away by direct high-speed rail.
• Ningbo — importers who think in containers: mixed-style consolidation across categories, with over twenty direct rail services a day to Xiamen.
• Yiwu — small-lot wholesalers, where we explain honestly why 2,000 pieces is the minimum and which parts of the market our model does fit.

Sourcing Specifications

Company	Xiamen Unitex Trade Co., Ltd. (厦门甲冠麒贸易有限公司) — sourcing and supply-chain management company, incorporated 2013; in the underwear trade since 2009
Location	Xiamen, Fujian Province, China — Jimei District, Xinglinwan Business Operation Center
Production base	Long-term partner factories across the Xiamen–Quanzhou–Jinjiang knitwear corridor; our own liaison office inside the Jinjiang factory district since 2013
Categories	Men’s / women’s / kids’ knitted underwear, plus size to 5XL, thermal and baselayers, pajamas and sleepwear, sport bras
MOQ	2,000 pcs per style and colour (trial orders from 1,000 pcs on selected styles)
Sampling	7–10 days for counter samples; 12–18 days for fully custom development
Bulk lead	45–60 days after pre-production sample approval
Compliance	BSCI-audited partner factories; OEKO-TEX® Standard 100 certified materials; certificate numbers for the production sites on your order shared at quotation
QC	AQL 2.5 inline and final inspection on every order; shrinkage and spirality tested before bulk cutting; third-party inspection (SGS, Intertek, TÜV) welcome
Port & terms	Xiamen Port — FOB Xiamen standard (EXW Xiamen for Russia/CIS); CIF, CNF or DDP on request
Payment	30% T/T deposit, 70% against copy of B/L; L/C at sight for larger programmes

How to Start Working with a China Underwear Supplier

1. Send your design brief, spec sheet or reference sample — we review and respond within 48 hours
2. Receive fabric swatches, waistband options and a quotation within 3–5 business days
3. Approve counter samples (7–10 days) or full custom development samples (12–18 days)
4. Pre-production sample locks the measurement chart, then bulk runs 45–60 days with AQL 2.5 inline and final inspection
5. Shipment from Xiamen Port on your chosen term, with export documentation handled by our team

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Prefer a third-party reference before you write? Our company profile and product showroom are public on Made-in-China.com, and our export shipping records are independently listed on Panjiva. Contact: [email protected] · WhatsApp +86 186 5081 3853.

Where Our Buyers Are Based

This hub is written for buyers sourcing underwear from China wherever they are based. The market guides are split two ways, so you can start with the one that matches your own address.

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Each guide sets out the import rules, duty and shipping routes that apply in that market, and what they change for an underwear programme. Buyers already based in China — Shenzhen, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Hong Kong, Ningbo, Yiwu or Xiamen — are covered by the city guides linked from the top of this page.

Published: 2026-10-04 · Xiamen Unitex Trade Co., Ltd. — OEM & ODM underwear sourcing partner

Unitex Underwear (Xiamen Unitex Trade Co., Ltd.) — OEM/ODM underwear sourcing and supply-chain partner in Xiamen, China; in the trade since 2009, incorporated in 2013. Based in the Xiamen–Quanzhou–Jinjiang knitwear cluster, Fujian Province, south-east China.