Clothing Manufacturer for Canadian Brands

Yes, DDP — delivered duty paid. We handle export from Bangladesh, freight, Canadian customs entry through CBSA, and any duty owed, and the price we quote is the landed price. No broker invoice arrives afterwards. Air freight to Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal adds roughly six to eight days door to door and suits launch dates; sea freight adds about thirty-five to forty days, routing through Vancouver for the west or Montreal for the east, at a fraction of the cost. GST remains payable by you as importer — that is a tax rather than a duty, and it is recoverable if you are registered. We send the commercial invoice, packing list and certificate of origin before the goods move, so your accountant has the paperwork in advance rather than chasing it. If you need the goods delivered to a third-party fulfilment centre rather than your own address, tell us at quote stage and we will arrange it.

No, and the end date is in legislation rather than in a press release. Bangladesh has had duty-free access under Canada's LDCT since 2003, and the Budget Implementation Act 2023 renewed both the GPT and LDCT programmes through 31 December 2034. Bangladesh's LDC graduation — currently scheduled for 24 November 2026, though the UN Committee for Development Policy has recommended deferring it to 2029 and a General Assembly vote is pending — would have moved apparel to roughly 17% average duty without that renewal. Because the renewal runs to 2034 and reporting indicates Canada applies a transition period for graduating countries rather than an overnight cut-off, neither date changes your landed cost today. Tariff classifications still turn on your specific commodity code, so check the CBSA tariff schedule or ask us to confirm it for your shipment. We ship DDP, so whatever duty applies on your shipping date is inside the price we quote.

Yes, and it is the most useful Canadian change most sourcing pages have not caught up with. Until 31 December 2024, Canada's apparel rules of origin required a minimum percentage of value to be added in the exporting country for a garment to qualify for preferential treatment — a real compliance burden, and the reason some Canadian importers were wary of factories that bought in fabric rather than knitting it themselves. Effective 1 January 2025, CBSA Customs Notice 24-41 harmonised the rules across all of Canada's unilateral preference programmes so that the cutting and sewing of fabrics confers origin on the final apparel product, regardless of the origin of the yarn and fabric. In practice: the value-added test no longer applies to apparel, and the cut-and-sew step is what qualifies the garment. If a supplier is still asking you to evidence value-add percentages for Canadian origin, they are quoting rules that expired at the end of 2024.

One hundred pieces per style, per colour. That floor exists because of fabric, not sewing: knit fabric is produced in minimum runs on circular machines, and dyeing happens in lots, so a hundred pieces is roughly where the material stops being sampling and starts being production. For a Canadian brand testing a first range, a realistic opening order is three to five hundred pieces across two or three styles. We would generally steer you toward fewer styles ordered deeper rather than a wide shallow range — a hundred each of five styles costs meaningfully more per piece than five hundred of two, and the sell-through data from a deeper run is far more useful when you decide what to reorder. Our free MOQ calculator compares those two shapes side by side.

About ten days for sampling, forty to fifty days for bulk once the pre-production sample is approved, then freight. Air freight to Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal adds roughly six to eight days door to door. Sea freight adds about thirty-five to forty days, routing through Vancouver for western Canada or Montreal for the east, and costs a fraction of air. We ship DDP, so we clear CBSA and cover duty, and you receive the goods without a customs invoice following behind. GST is still payable by you as importer — that is a tax, not a duty, and it is recoverable if you are registered. We will tell you the realistic date at quote stage, including the freight leg, rather than quoting the factory date alone.

Yes, GOTS-certified under certificate RSC 9687, which is listed in the Global Standard public database so you can verify it yourself rather than trusting a logo on a website. GOTS certifies the chain rather than just the fibre: permitted chemical inputs, wastewater treatment and audited labour conditions. That matters in Canada beyond the marketing: alongside the GPT, Canada has announced a General Preferential Tariff Plus (GPTP) programme intended to give expanded preferences to countries meeting international standards on human rights, labour rights and sustainable development. CBSA's own notice says GPTP will come into effect at a later date and its details are still being developed, so we are not going to claim a benefit from it today — but documented, audited compliance is the direction Canadian preference policy is moving, and a checkable certificate is how you evidence it. We can issue a Transaction Certificate covering your specific order when a retailer or marketplace asks for one.