Clothing Manufacturer for Austrian Brands

No: clothing cut and sewn on our floor in Narayanganj enters Austria at 0% duty under the EU's Everything But Arms scheme, because Austria applies the EU's common customs rules and our cut-and-sew work meets the single-transformation origin rule. What is due is 20% Austrian import VAT, a tax rather than a duty, and on our DDP terms it sits inside the price. The 0% rests on Bangladesh's standing as a Least Developed Country, which the UN timetable now ends on 24 November 2029, after the General Assembly granted an extension on 29 October 2026. Regulation (EU) 2026/1395 keeps Everything But Arms for three years after that, so a range you price for Austria today stays duty-free to about the end of 2032; we confirm the live position for every order. Import VAT is unaffected. What could follow 2032 is in our LDC graduation guide.

Import VAT on clothing brought into Austria is 20%, the Normalsteuersatz, and clothing does not qualify for the 10% or 13% reduced rates, which the Unternehmensserviceportal (read 27 Sep 2026) keeps for goods such as food, books and plants. The base is wider than the factory price. Under EU rules it is the customs value, which includes sea freight and insurance to the EU border, plus any duty, plus transport to the first place of destination in Austria (European Commission, read 27 Sep 2026). On 500 tees at a US$6.00 customs value, US$3,000 including sea freight and insurance to the EU border, import VAT is US$600, plus 20% of the road or rail leg into Austria. DDP means that amount is folded into the landed price you sign off. Where your company is the importer on the entry, a UID-registered business normally reclaims it through its Umsatzsteuervoranmeldung; we confirm how the entry is filed with your quote.

Yes: the minimum is 150 pieces per style and per colour, so a single design in a single colourway already counts as a full first order for an Austrian label. That is enough to test a single hoodie or tee in your own web shop, or with a few stockists in Vienna or Graz, before committing to a collection. Adding a colour adds a dye lot, priced as such, so one colour ordered deep usually beats three ordered shallow; three colours means 450 pieces. Two tasks are done once per style: the German-language fibre label artwork, and the GPSR technical file that a company importing from us in Austria keeps as the EU responsible operator. Both carry over to reorders of an unchanged style, so a style that sells can be repeated without redoing that groundwork. Model the colour split in our MOQ calculator, or read how the low-MOQ service works.

About ten days for sampling, forty to fifty days for production once the pre-production sample is signed off, then transit: sea to Koper, Trieste or Hamburg plus a road or rail leg to your address, which we confirm with the quote, or air freight into Vienna in days. For an Austrian order the quoted transit covers the whole chain: the sea leg, the onward haul from the port to a Vienna, Graz, Linz or Innsbruck address, and, where the entry is made at an Austrian inland customs office, the transit step from the port. Choose the mode per order: sea and road for the main run, where cost per piece matters, and air into Vienna when a first order or a fixed launch date outweighs the freight bill. The Austrian entry and the 20% import VAT sit inside one DDP price, and the cartons arrive at your door rather than at a port you would have to collect from. From order to your door, plan on about 70 days by air.

Austria has no coast, so shipments go by sea to an EU port and then by road or rail to your door, and we quote both legs as one DDP price. For Vienna and Graz the Adriatic ports are the ones to look at: Koper in Slovenia and Trieste in Italy, reached via Suez. For Tirol, Vorarlberg and the rest of western Austria, and for brands consolidating with German stock, Hamburg is the alternative. We name the port in the quote. The port also affects the tax. For the import VAT to be Austrian, the goods leave the port under transit and are entered at an Austrian inland office of Zollamt Österreich. Released for free circulation at Koper, Trieste or Hamburg instead, they would bear Slovenian, Italian or German import VAT unless the entry uses customs procedure 42, so we agree the entry point and procedure with your broker before anything ships. Air freight entered at Vienna is Austrian from the start.

Clothing sold in Austria needs a fibre-composition label in German, plus the manufacturer and operator details the EU's product-safety rules require. Under Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 it lists every fibre by generic name and percentage, largest first, and must be durable and legible. Each member state may require its official language on the label, and Austria's is German; the Commission's Your Europe guidance says to translate it for each country of sale. Because Germany uses the same language, one German label serves a range sold in both markets. Under the General Product Safety Regulation, a company importing from us in Austria is the EU-established responsible operator, and the garment or its packaging must also name the manufacturer with a postal and an electronic address. The fibre rules do not require a country of origin, though the customs declaration states it and any origin claim you print must be true. Hang tags and packaging trims are in our labels and packaging guide.

Mostly not: the duty, the minimum and the GPSR rules are the same, but Austria's import VAT is 20% against Germany's 19%, and goods need a road or rail leg from Koper, Trieste or Hamburg. Both countries apply the EU's common customs rules, so a garment from our floor in Narayanganj enters either one duty-free under Everything But Arms, from the same 150 pieces per style and colour. The customs authorities differ too: in Germany the Einfuhrumsatzsteuer is collected by Zoll, in Austria import VAT is handled by Zollamt Österreich. A range priced from German figures therefore under-counts Austrian VAT by a point and leaves out the inland leg. If you sell mainly in Germany, price from our German page; if Austria is your main market, the numbers on this page are yours. To read our process in German, use the German-language page, then come back here for Austria's figures.

For cotton knitwear from 150 pieces, our view is that Bangladesh suits an Austrian brand on organic cotton under GOTS and landed cost, Turkey suits speed to market, and Portugal suits a made-in-Europe label. From Bangladesh, cut-and-sew knitwear enters Austria duty-free under Everything But Arms, via Suez to Koper, Trieste or Hamburg and on by road or rail. Turkey's customs union with the EU means no duty on goods in free circulation, but Turkish and Bangladeshi goods both pay Austria's 20% import VAT. Only Portugal, as EU production, has no import entry; Austrian VAT is then accounted as intra-EU acquisition VAT rather than import VAT. Turkey tends to suit denim and knit when you need weeks, not months, at a unit cost above Bangladesh's; Portugal tends to mean small runs at the highest unit cost. Choose us when you want the GPSR file built during production. We do not make denim, jackets or woven shirts; our services page explains the partner route.

Yes: what we make can carry organic cotton under our GOTS certificate RSC 9687, with a transaction certificate for your order; the scope certificate is available on request. For an Austrian brand the certificate does two jobs. First, the transaction certificate documents the organic fibre in your order, and any GOTS wording you plan to print on a German-language label, hang tag or product page should be agreed with us against GOTS's labelling rules before it goes to print. Second, the certificate supplies the fibre, chemistry and traceability evidence behind the GPSR technical file, which a company importing from us in Austria keeps for ten years as the EU responsible operator. Separately, REACH Annex XVII entry 43 bans azo dyes that release listed aromatic amines above 30 mg/kg in textiles worn against the skin. Organic is a choice, not a requirement: a conventional cotton range needs the same GPSR file. Our GOTS page sets out what the certificate covers.

Yes: our Amsterdam office, at Soetendaal 61, is in Austria's time zone and handles design conversations, samples and compliance paperwork in German or English. The floor in Narayanganj runs on Bangladesh Standard Time, UTC+6 with no daylight saving, which puts it four to five hours ahead of Vienna: five in the Austrian winter, four in summer. It works Saturday to Thursday, 09:00 to 17:00 local time, so an Austrian morning overlaps our afternoon, and the Amsterdam office covers the rest of your working day. Note that the floor's week is not yours: a Friday in Vienna is a rest day in Narayanganj, while Saturday and Sunday there are working days. That overlap is also the time to ask for a live video call from the floor during a working shift, the check we suggest before you trust any Bekleidungshersteller, us included. We reply within one business day; start through our contact page.

We ship it there. Collective Studio cuts and sews in its own factory in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, and delivers DDP to Austrian addresses. Nothing is made in Austria, so we cannot supply a Made in Austria label, and any origin you print must be true. If domestic production matters to your brand, the Austrian Economic Chamber's clothing industry factsheet is a starting point: its industry group counts 99 companies with 7,040 employees in Austria in the first half of 2026. Most Austrian labels source abroad: in 2024 Bangladesh supplied 18.8% of Austria's knitted apparel imports, second only to China, according to UN Comtrade data in the World Bank's WITS database. From us you get cut-and-sew knitwear from 150 pieces per style and colour, German fibre labels sewn to your artwork, and an Amsterdam office in your time zone for samples and paperwork.

Usually your company. Under § 13g of Austria's Waste Management Act (AWG 2002), the business that imports packaged goods into Austria is a Primärverpflichteter and has to take part in a licensed collection and recovery system, a Sammel- und Verwertungssystem, for that packaging: the polybag on each garment and the cartons the order arrives in. The EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation has applied in stages since 12 August 2026, but the ministry's June 2026 information sheet says that duty is unchanged for now, pending an amendment of the AWG. The Austrian Economic Chamber's guidance on foreign suppliers adds that a supplier delivering to an Austrian business need not join a system itself. It sits outside customs: duty-free entry does not cover it. If the entry is filed in another name, agree with your broker who counts as importer, and tell us the packaging specification your system expects.