What Is Apparel Stock Lot? Complete Beginner’s Guide
Apparel stock lot, also known as clothing overstock or surplus garments, refers to leftover goods from garment factories, brand order cancellations, overproduction, and retail store withdrawal inventory. Most of these clothes are originally produced for European, American and Southeast Asian export orders.
Manufacturers usually produce an extra 3% of goods as spare stock for overseas orders to cope with defective products and order replacement. After completing the delivery task, the remaining products will be sold at a price lower than the production cost, which forms the mainstream source of clothing stock lot nowadays.
Regular clothing stock lots feature the same fabric, craftsmanship and production line as counter genuine products. Some are cut-label goods without brand logos, while others keep original tags and packaging. Compared with retail market goods, stock lot clothing has obvious price advantages and stable quality, becoming a popular choice for cross-border wholesale, physical store procurement and online resale.
The main categories cover men’s wear, women’s wear, children’s wear, casual wear, sports wear and knitted sweaters. The mainstream supply bases are concentrated in Guangzhou, Dongguan and Yiwu, forming a complete industrial chain of procurement, sorting and export shipment.
