Clothing Manufacturer for Luxembourg Brands

No. Collective Studio cuts and sews in its own factory in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, and delivers DDP to Luxembourg addresses, so the customs entry, the import VAT and the onward road leg sit inside one landed price. Design conversations, samples and compliance paperwork run through our Amsterdam office at Soetendaal 61, in English, and it is about three hours away by road if you would rather meet in person. The floor works Saturday to Thursday, 09:00 to 17:00 Bangladesh time, four to five hours ahead of Luxembourg, so your morning overlaps our afternoon. We make cut-and-sew knitwear from 150 pieces per style and colour; denim, jackets and woven shirts go to our sister buying house as a separate order. If a made-in-Europe label is central to your brand and price is secondary, a workshop in Portugal is the honest choice, and we would rather say so. If you want cotton knitwear duty-free at a low minimum, that is our work.

No, at present: knitwear cut and sewn on our floor enters Luxembourg at 0% duty under the EU's Everything But Arms scheme, on a single-transformation origin rule. Customs duty is set for the whole Union, so the same 0% applies whether the goods are cleared at Antwerp or at a Luxembourg address after transit; only the import VAT depends on where the entry is made. Bangladesh is now scheduled to graduate from LDC status on 24 November 2029, after the UN General Assembly granted its request for more time on 29 October 2026. Regulation (EU) 2026/1395 keeps duty-free access for three years after graduation, so until at least late November 2032, and Luxembourg's import VAT is unaffected by any of it. What follows depends on GSP+ eligibility; our LDC graduation guide sets out the scenarios. We state the position for your commodity code in writing with your quote.

17% for adult clothing: Luxembourg's taux normal, the lowest standard VAT rate in the EU, as the Portail de la fiscalité indirecte states (read 27 Sep 2026). Children's clothing is different. Annexe B of the Luxembourg VAT law (read 27 Sep 2026) puts clothing, headwear, scarves, gloves and footwear for children under 14 on the 3% super-reduced rate, within limits set by grand-ducal regulation, so confirm with your fiduciaire which sizes qualify; Article 40 applies that rate to imports too. Import VAT falls on the customs value, which includes freight to the EU border, plus any duty and, when the goods are cleared in Luxembourg, the road leg from the port to the first destination here. With duty at zero, adult pieces on a US$3,000 base carry US$510. On our DDP terms it sits inside the landed price. If the entry is made in your company's name, a VAT-registered Luxembourg business normally recovers it on its periodic return.

Yes: 150 pieces per style and per colour is our minimum, and it is the smallest run we can make honestly, because knit fabric is knitted and dyed in lots at our partner mills, and 150 pieces in one colour is about where a lot turns into a proper production run. For a Luxembourg brand the question is the region rather than the home market, since almost every brand here sells across the border from day one. One style in one colour at 150 pieces is a genuine first drop. That style in three colours is 450 pieces, because each colour is a separate dye lot; three styles in one shared colour is also 450 pieces. One production run, cleared once, can then stock Luxembourg, Belgium, France and Germany without separate inventory, which is why a small home market does not need a large first run. Model the split in our MOQ calculator before you ask for a quote.

Sometimes: if the entry is made in your company's name, a VAT-registered Luxembourg business clearing at home pays a lower rate up front and can recover it on its own return, but it adds a customs step. Under Articles 60 and 61 of the VAT Directive (read 27 Sep 2026), goods are imported where they enter the EU, unless they travel on under external transit; then the import happens in the member state where transit ends. So a container landing at Antwerp can move to Luxembourg under transit and be cleared at 17% on adult clothing, against 21% at Antwerp or Rotterdam, or 20% at Le Havre. Import VAT paid in Belgium is normally recovered through Belgium, not on your Luxembourg return, so clearing at home can also save a foreign reclaim; your fiduciaire confirms how each amount is recovered. Transit only suits goods going to a Luxembourg address. Tell us the routing and we set up the entry.

Clothing sold in Luxembourg normally carries French and German on the fibre label, although Luxembourg has three official languages: Luxembourgish, French and German. Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 decides the content: every fibre by generic name and percentage, in descending order, on a durable, legible label, and Article 16(3) requires the official language or languages of the member state where it is sold, unless that state provides otherwise. The Commission's Your Europe guidance (read 27 Sep 2026) says to translate the label into all the official national languages where the product is made available to the consumer. Ranges sold here in practice carry French and German, so confirm the combination with your retailer before the artwork is final, and we sew exactly what you specify. Since most Luxembourg ranges also sell across the border, plan one label for the region: add Dutch for Belgium and the Netherlands, and the French and German already cover France, Germany and Wallonia.

Your company is, if it imports the goods: under the General Product Safety Regulation (EU) 2023/988, applying since 13 December 2024, a Luxembourg-registered business importing from us is the EU-established responsible economic operator and keeps the technical documentation for ten years. Selling under your own name or trademark makes you the manufacturer under Article 3(8), so the name and postal and electronic address on the garment or packaging are yours, not ours, as is the risk analysis. In Luxembourg, ILNAS is the competent market-surveillance authority for the regulation, according to the Portail Qualité (read 27 Sep 2026), so it is ILNAS that can ask to see the file. Agree with us before shipping which company acts as importer on your DDP entry, because the labelling and the file follow that role. We build the evidence during production, and on organic orders we work under GOTS certificate RSC 9687, with the scope certificate available on request. REACH azo-dye limits and EN 14682 for children's cords also apply to the file.

About ten days for sampling, forty to fifty days for production once the pre-production sample is signed off, then transit: sea to Antwerp, Rotterdam or Zeebrugge plus a few hours by road, which we confirm with the quote, or air freight into Findel in days. Which route suits you depends on the order. Sea is the economical choice for a full range, while Findel makes air practical for a launch-date drop or a reorder of one colour that is selling. We ship DDP to any Luxembourg address, so the freight, the onward road leg, the customs entry, the import VAT and delivery sit inside one landed price, and you receive one delivery rather than a port collection to arrange. Where the goods are cleared is your choice; see the question on clearing in Luxembourg above. If you would rather run your own forwarder, the guide to FOB, CIF and DDP compares who pays for each leg. From order to your door, plan on about 70 days by air.