Clothing Manufacturer for European Brands

The General Product Safety Regulation (2023/988) has applied since December 2024, with enforcement intensifying through 2026, and textiles are explicitly covered. If you import garments from outside the EU, you are the economic operator responsible — you need a documented risk assessment and technical documentation for each product, kept for ten years after it goes on the market. The practical catch is that you can only build that file if your manufacturer supplies the underlying data: fibre composition, chemical and dye compliance, and traceable production records. Ask any prospective factory whether they can provide it, because if they can't, the exposure sits with you, not them.

It does not satisfy GPSR on its own, and it is worth being precise about that. Regulation (EU) 2023/988 requires a responsible person established in the EU and a technical file covering materials, testing and traceability held for ten years — that is a legal obligation, and no certification substitutes for it. Where GOTS helps is that most of the technical file's substance already exists as a by-product of certification: documented fibre origin, chemical inputs restricted and recorded, chain-of-custody paperwork through every processing stage, and audited supplier records. Assembling a technical file from a certified chain is straightforward; assembling one from an uncertified supply chain often is not. We build the file during production and hand it over with the shipment, and our Amsterdam office can sit as the EU-established point where that suits your structure.

Bangladesh has entered the EU duty-free under the Everything But Arms arrangement, which grants least-developed countries tariff-free, quota-free access. That status changes when Bangladesh graduates from LDC classification on 24 November 2026, and the EU's transition arrangements are less settled than the UK's or Canada's — which is why we would rather you checked the live position than relied on a figure written here. VAT is separate and remains payable by you as importer regardless of duty. We ship DDP, so we clear customs and cover any duty owed and quote a landed price rather than a factory price. If the duty position materially affects your pricing, ask us to confirm it for your specific commodity code at quote stage and we will.

Our branch office is in Amsterdam — Soetendaal 61, 1081 BN — alongside the factory in Narayanganj. For European brands that matters for two practical reasons beyond the convenience of a nearer time zone. First, GPSR: Regulation (EU) 2023/988 requires a responsible person established in the EU, and a technical file covering materials, testing and traceability kept for ten years. That file has to be built during production rather than reconstructed afterwards, and having an EU entity simplifies who holds it. Second, meetings and samples move faster within Europe than across continents. The manufacturing itself happens in Bangladesh — we are not pretending otherwise — but the commercial and compliance relationship can sit in the EU where your obligations do.

One hundred pieces per style, per colour. For an EU brand there is a second consideration beyond quantity: GPSR. Regulation (EU) 2023/988 requires a responsible person established in the EU and a technical file kept for ten years covering materials, testing and traceability. That file has to be built during production, not reconstructed afterwards, so we assemble it as we go and hand it over with the shipment. Practically, that means a first order of three to five hundred pieces across two or three styles is the sensible shape — enough to justify the compliance work once and reuse it on reorders. Splitting a hundred pieces across several colours triggers separate fabric and dye lots and prices accordingly, so one colour deep beats three shallow.