About

The Yiwu team that manages your apparel production.

GD TRADE is a production agent based in Yiwu, Zhejiang, China, and Dawn Sourcing is its English-facing website. We run custom apparel production for brands at partner factories: fabric sourcing, samples, production managed on site, and every piece checked in our Yiwu warehouse before it ships FOB, CIF or DDP. From May to July 2026 we produced and shipped 350,000 pieces of clothing for 30+ brands, mostly in Korea. The company is run by Fred Lee, a Korean CEO with 10 years as an online seller, and director Moonhak Kim, who has managed production inside Yiwu-area factories since 2003. Contact: hello@dawnsourcing.com · +86 180 7268 8781.

Updated October 6, 2026

Brand: Dawn Sourcing
Operating company: GD TRADE
Registered company: Yiwu Jindi Trading Co., Ltd. (义乌市金砥贸易有限公司), limited liability company
Legal representative: LEE SANGSUP
Address: 1F Warehouse, No. 2, Building 95, Jiangnan District 4, Yiwu, Zhejiang 322000, China
浙江省金华市义乌市江东街道江南四区95幢2号一楼
What we are: A production agent: we choose partner factories for your product and manage the order inside them. We do not own factories.
Main product: Apparel for US and Korean brands; other consumer goods on request
Pricing: One all-in unit price per piece: goods, inspection and our management; freight and import duty too when shipped DDP
Contact: hello@dawnsourcing.com · WhatsApp +82 10 8781 3083 · Yiwu office +86 180 7268 8781

Business license of Yiwu Jindi Trading Co., Ltd., showing company name, type, legal representative, registration date and address; registration number redacted — Our business license. The registration number and QR code are redacted here; we send the full license to buyers on request before any payment.

The two of us.

Fred Lee

CEO, GD TRADE

You deal with him in English. Nothing about your order goes through an interpreter.

Five years in Melbourne, most of it on building sites, is where the English came from. From 2016 he bought and resold product in Korea — online and off — which is how he learned what a buyer is actually afraid of. The thing that moved him to China was the part of that job he hated: ordering from a factory he could not see, through someone who only relayed messages. He moved in 2023 and started making the product instead.

He is also Overseas Sales Director at Keumdo Holdings in Korea — see below.

Moonhak Kim

Director, GD TRADE

Describe the product and he runs it. Since 2003 he has coordinated and managed production inside the factories that make it.

He has been sourcing out of Yiwu since long before we existed, across apparel, houseware, toys and electronics, and has shipped 400+ 40HQ containers. He lives there. When we say we were on the floor, he is usually the one standing on it.

His years in Yiwu are his own record, not the company's age. We started taking orders properly in December 2025.

Walking the aisle of a sewing floor mid-run, with stations working on both sides — The floor, mid-run. This is where the coordinating happens, and it is not an email thread.

Most of the competition sells you a catalog.

An ODM reseller takes a product that already exists and ships it to you. We build the product you specified, in a factory chosen for it. Those are different jobs, and only one of them can go wrong in the way that ruins your season.

The buyer's real problem is never the price list. It is that the goods did not come out the way you asked — and that outcome is decided by how well someone can talk to a factory, in person, in its own language.
An agent who forwards your tech pack and forwards the reply cannot see a problem coming. There is nobody in the loop who has made this product before.
We take the spec, work out what always goes wrong on that product, and design it out before the order is placed. Two of those are on the home page in full.

At least three visits, every order.

A long-distance factory visit costs about a thousand dollars. That is why it is the visit most often skipped, and it is the cheapest thousand dollars in this business.

Before production

Is this a factory at all

Anyone can post a catalog. We stand in the building before your deposit moves.

During production

Quality — and your delivery date

This is the visit people underrate. When defects appear, a factory quietly moves your order down its own priority list, and the delivery date goes with it. Catching it on the line keeps your slot.

At dispatch

One last look

Checked before the goods leave the factory for our warehouse.

Then, in Yiwu

Every piece, by hand

Goods land in our warehouse before they land with you.

Staff checking a QC sheet and inspecting finished garments on the floor in China

Why we check all of it, not a sample.

Sewing is handwork, so the defect rate is not a flat number across a run.

One operator having a bad day can push the failure rate on one part of the garment to thirty percent — for that day, on that station, on that seam. A sample pulled from the wrong carton passes; a sample pulled from the right one fails. Neither tells you what is in the shipment. So we inspect the whole quantity in our own warehouse, and the people doing it are former sewing operators, because knowing how the seam was made is what lets you see it is wrong.

Quantity is confirmed on our count, not the factory's, and then it ships. The full checkpoint structure is on Quality Control, and there is a real report on this page.

Not a company with nothing to lose.

Fred is also Overseas Sales Director at Keumdo Holdings, a separate family company in Korea. It is not Dawn Sourcing's revenue and we do not present it as ours — it is the reason you are not dealing with a burner account.

Buys end-of-season stock from Korean department stores and moves it through export, retail and live commerce — apparel, bags, footwear, accessories.
A single buy runs to five 11-tonne truckloads: tens of thousands of pieces at a time.
Its warehouse in Gonjiam, Gyeonggi has gone from about 18,000 sq ft to roughly 106,000 sq ft on volume growth.
Tier 1 vendor to a USD 3.6B B2B distribution and manufacturing group.

Palletized cartons and racked apparel inside the Korea warehouse — Korea, not China: the same person's other operation — warehouse, dispatch, retail floor.

A curtain-side trailer being loaded with palletized cartons — Korea, not China: the same person's other operation — warehouse, dispatch, retail floor.

Questions people ask about GD TRADE.

Who is GD TRADE?

GD TRADE is a production agent in Yiwu, Zhejiang, China, registered as Yiwu Jindi Trading Co., Ltd. (义乌市金砥贸易有限公司). It runs custom apparel production for brands, and Dawn Sourcing is the name it uses for English-speaking buyers. The CEO is Fred Lee; the director is Moonhak Kim.

Is Dawn Sourcing legitimate?

Dawn Sourcing is operated by a registered Chinese limited liability company, Yiwu Jindi Trading Co., Ltd., with a warehouse at 1F, No. 2, Building 95, Jiangnan District 4, Yiwu. The business license is shown on this page, and we send the full license before any payment. From May to July 2026 we produced and shipped 350,000 pieces of clothing for 30+ brands.

Is GD TRADE a factory?

No. GD TRADE is a production agent. We choose partner factories for each product and manage the order inside them, with our own team on the factory floor and a check of every piece in our Yiwu warehouse. We do not own factories.

How long has GD TRADE been in business?

GD TRADE started taking production orders in December 2025. Our director, Moonhak Kim, has managed production inside Yiwu-area factories since 2003.

Where is GD TRADE located and how do I contact you?

Yiwu, Zhejiang, China: 1F Warehouse, No. 2, Building 95, Jiangnan District 4, Yiwu 322000. Email hello@dawnsourcing.com, WhatsApp +82 10 8781 3083, Yiwu office +86 180 7268 8781. Fred Lee reads every inquiry and replies in English within one business day, China time.

How do I start with a first style?

Send a photo, a link or your own sample through the free sample form. Your first style comes with an indicative price and a free sample: one per company, first style only.