Clothing Manufacturer for Irish Brands

No, not at present: a garment cut and sewn on our floor in Narayanganj qualifies for 0% duty into Ireland under the EU's Everything But Arms scheme, and the preference is claimed on the entry with the origin documents we confirm with your quote. Cutting and sewing here meets the single-transformation origin rule that makes the garment Bangladeshi. LDC graduation is now due on 24 November 2029: the UN General Assembly granted Bangladesh's extension request on 29 October 2026. Regulation (EU) 2026/1395 gives a graduating country three more years of Everything But Arms access after graduation, so an Irish brand ordering now keeps duty-free eligibility until about late November 2032 as things stand. Duty-free is not tax-free: Revenue charges 23% import VAT on garments from every country. We confirm the live duty position for your commodity code in writing with each Irish quote.

23%, Ireland's standard rate, which Revenue lists as current (read 27 Sep 2026). At import it is charged on more than the factory invoice: the base is the customs value, which already includes freight to the EU border, plus any duty, plus the transport, handling and insurance costs onward to the place of destination in Ireland. On 500 tees at a US$6.00 customs value (which includes freight and insurance to the EU border), US$3,000 in total, that is roughly US$690 before the transport element is added, and no duty. We quote DDP with that VAT inside the landed price, so there is no separate bill at Dublin Port. The alternative: if your company is registered for VAT and for Customs and Excise and is named as importer on the entry, postponed accounting lets it declare the import VAT on its VAT3 return and reclaim it on the same return. Revenue says that route is optional, so agree it with your accountant and tell us before we lodge the entry.

Yes: 150 pieces per style and per colour is the minimum for an Irish brand, delivered DDP to any address in Ireland. Sizes split freely inside those 150, so one tee can run from XS to XXL; colours do not, since every colour needs a dye lot of its own. Two styles in two colours is therefore 600 pieces, not 300, and for a first drop in a market the size of Ireland's that usually argues for fewer colours made deeper. Our MOQ calculator models an Irish first drop before you commit. A small Irish order is still a full import: a customs entry, 23% VAT on the customs value plus onward transport, English fibre labels and a General Product Safety Regulation file held by your Irish company. That file is built once per style and updated, rather than rebuilt, on reorders, which keeps a 150-piece test worthwhile. Send the styles and colours and we reply within one business day.

Yes: Ireland is in the EU, so clothing from Bangladesh enters at 0% duty under Everything But Arms and pays 23% Irish import VAT, while Great Britain uses the UK's Developing Countries Trading Scheme and 20% VAT. A sourcing guide written for London therefore gives an Irish founder the wrong scheme and the wrong rate. Clear the goods in Ireland, at Dublin Port, Rosslare or Dublin Airport, rather than through a British importer, because routing the order through a British importer creates a second customs event. If you also sell into Northern Ireland, tell us at the quote stage: goods moving there have their own arrangements under the Windsor Framework, and we set that entry up with your broker rather than guess. Our page for UK brands covers Great Britain; this page covers brands based in the Republic of Ireland, where Revenue charges the import VAT on the Irish customs entry.

About ten days for sampling, forty to fifty days for production once the pre-production sample is signed off, then transit. Sea freight from Chattogram to Dublin or Rosslare usually transships at a continental hub, so we confirm the figure for your port with the quote; air freight into Dublin is measured in days. Dublin Port is the usual sea entry and Rosslare the alternative, so tell us which is closer to your warehouse or fulfilment partner and we quote to that port. Either way we ship DDP to any Irish address, so the customs entry, the 23% import VAT and the final delivery are handled on our side. We send the commercial invoice and packing list before the goods move, and confirm the origin documents for the Everything But Arms claim with your quote. The launch-date calculator in our free resources counts back from your Irish launch date. From order to your door, plan on about 70 days by air.

Not in practice: English is one of Ireland's two official languages, it is what the Irish market labels in, and it is what we sew; we add Irish whenever you or a retailer ask. The rule is Article 16(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 (read 27 Sep 2026): the label must be in the official language or languages of the member state where the garment is sold, unless that state provides otherwise. Ireland applies the regulation through S.I. No. 142 of 2012, enforced by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission. S.I. No. 142 of 2012 adds no language rule of its own; it enforces the EU regulation. If you need certainty on an English-only label, ask the CCPC or your adviser; if a stockist wants both languages, we sew both. The label lists the fibres by generic name and percentage, in descending order. Selling across the EU too? We sew those languages in the same run.

It makes your Irish company the EU-established responsible economic operator for the garments you import from us, with duties of its own. The General Product Safety Regulation (EU) 2023/988, applying since 13 December 2024, requires, among other things: your Irish company's name and postal and electronic address on the garment (on the packaging only where the garment cannot carry it), because a brand selling under its own name or trademark is the manufacturer under Article 3(8); a type or batch number on each garment; a risk analysis; and technical documentation kept up to date for ten years. We build the file with you during production, and the garments must also meet REACH Annex XVII entry 43, which bans azo dyes releasing listed aromatic amines above 30 mg/kg in textiles worn against the skin. We are GOTS certified (RSC 9687); for an organic order, the scope certificate is available on request for your file. Our Amsterdam office can also hold a copy of the file where that suits your structure.

In our view, Bangladesh if you want cotton knitwear from 150 pieces with landed cost as the priority; Ireland or elsewhere in the EU if a made-in-EU label matters more. Making inside the EU, in Portugal for example, avoids the import altogether: no customs entry and no import VAT at the border, but in our view the highest unit cost. Turkey is in a customs union with the EU, so there is no duty on goods in free circulation, and it suits speed to market at a mid-range cost. Our floor suits cotton knit basics at low minimums and organic cotton under our GOTS certificate: duty-free into Ireland under Everything But Arms, with 23% import VAT inside the DDP price and the GPSR file built during production. The trade-off is distance: the sea route runs via Suez and usually transships at a continental hub before Dublin or Rosslare. Whichever origin you choose, Irish VAT is still due when you sell the garments.

Yes: we make t-shirts and hoodies for Irish brands at our own Narayanganj factory, cut and sewn from your pattern at 150 pieces per style and colour, alongside polos, sweatshirts, joggers, shorts, activewear, loungewear, underwear and kidswear. Denim, jackets and woven shirts are outside what we sew: CMB Sourcing Ltd, a separate buying house in the same BSCIC Industrial Area, sources them under its own contract, so an Irish range that pairs a hoodie with a denim jacket involves two companies, and we tell you that at the start. For an Irish brand the garment is the same as anywhere; the differences sit around it. The care and fibre label is sewn in English, with Irish if a stockist asks, your company's name and address as the EU importer go on the garment (on the packaging only where the garment cannot carry it), and the 23% VAT sits inside the DDP price. For the garment detail, see our private-label t-shirt and custom hoodie pages.

Yes: our EU office at Soetendaal 61 in Amsterdam is about an hour and a half from Dublin by air and one hour ahead of Irish time, and we can walk you round the sewing floor on a live video call during a working shift. An Irish founder can bring swatches, fit samples or labelling questions to Amsterdam and talk them through in English, face to face. The sewing happens at our own factory, Plot-A-132, Road No. 02, BSCIC Industrial Area, Panchabati, Narayanganj 1420, Bangladesh. Bangladesh Standard Time is UTC+6 with no daylight saving, so the floor is five hours ahead of Ireland in summer and six in winter: your morning overlaps our afternoon, and Amsterdam covers the rest of your working day. If you would rather see the line in person before a first order, pre-arranged visits to Narayanganj are welcome. Either way, send a message and we reply within one business day.

Yes, if it is true, and provided nothing on the garment suggests it was made in Ireland. Section 43 of the Consumer Protection Act 2007 treats a commercial practice as misleading if it gives false information, or is likely to deceive the average consumer, about a product's main characteristics in a way likely to change their decision to buy, and the list includes geographical and commercial origin. So "Designed in Dublin" on a swing tag describes your studio, while "Irish made" on a tee cut and sewn in Narayanganj would be false. The EU fibre-labelling regulation does not require an origin mark, but the customs entry declares Bangladesh, so any origin you print should match it. A common pattern is "Made in Bangladesh" on the care label and your Irish design story on the hang tag; we sew in your labels and attach your hang tags to your artwork. If a claim feels borderline, take advice before printing.

Yes: one DDP shipment, one customs entry, and the two VAT rates applied line by line. The commercial invoice lists each style separately with its sizes, so adult styles carry Ireland's 23% import VAT and children's styles that meet Revenue's conditions carry 0%: sized for children under 11, within the 32-inch chest, 26-inch waist and 152 cm height limits, and described, labelled or marketed by age or size. Put the age or size band on the label and hang tag of each children's style, and keep any style that crosses into adult sizing as its own line, since the zero rate follows the garment, not the shipment. The minimum is the same for both: 150 pieces per style and per colour, with sizes split freely inside it. We leave neck and hood drawcords off children's garments, which keeps the cord rules of EN 14682 simple; our kidswear page covers the rest of the safety detail.