Clothing Manufacturer for Polish Brands

Yes: a Polish brand can place a first order of 150 pieces, as long as those 150 are one style in one colour. The minimum counts per colourway, not per order, so the same hoodie in black and ecru is 300 pieces. You choose the sizes within each 150; our MOQ calculator starts from a common curve with 45 pieces each in M and L, which you adjust to your customers. One colour deep usually beats three shallow, because each extra colour is a separate dye lot and is priced accordingly. For a first Polish range the fixed work is done once per style: the Polish-language label artwork and the GPSR technical file, both reused on reorders. If you need fewer than 150 of a colour, a Łódź workshop may suit that piece better, and we will tell you so. Our DDP quote shows the landed cost to your Polish address.

Use a Łódź workshop for quick re-cuts, woven or tailored pieces and a made-in-Poland story; use Bangladesh for cut-and-sew knitwear from 150 pieces per style and colour, where landed cost decides. Making at home means no import, no customs entry and no import-VAT event, and a re-cut of fifty pieces next week is the job a local workshop does best. Our floor makes tees, polos, hoodies, joggers, activewear and loungewear to your pattern, such as a 320 GSM hoodie or a 180 GSM tee, with organic cotton available under our GOTS certificate RSC 9687. Our DDP quote includes freight and Poland's 23% import VAT, with 0% duty under Everything But Arms, so set that landed figure against the Polish price. Denim, jackets and woven shirts are not made on our floor; our sister buying house sources them as a separate order. Splitting a range between the two often makes sense, and we will tell you which pieces belong in Łódź.

No, not at present: a garment cut and sewn on our floor enters Poland duty-free under the EU's Everything But Arms scheme, because Poland applies the EU's common customs rules. The origin test is a single transformation, which cutting and sewing in Narayanganj meets, so the garments qualify for 0% duty at entry in Gdańsk, Gdynia or Warsaw. Bangladesh's LDC graduation has moved from 24 November 2026 to 24 November 2029: the UN General Assembly granted its extension request on 29 October 2026. Regulation (EU) 2026/1395 keeps EBA for three years after graduation, so duty-free entry lasts until about the end of 2032. Zero duty also keeps Poland's 23% import VAT lower, because with no duty in it the VAT base is the customs value plus transport to the first destination in Poland. We state the live position for your order in writing, and our LDC graduation guide sets out what may follow.

Poland charges import VAT on clothing at its basic rate of 23%, in force since 1 January 2011 according to podatki.gov.pl (read 27 Sep 2026). The 8% and 5% reduced rates are reserved for listed goods, and clothing is not among them. The base is the customs value, which includes freight and insurance to the EU border, plus any duty and the transport costs to the first place of destination in Poland, so every US$1,000 of that base carries US$230. On our DDP terms the VAT sits inside the price you approve. Where your company is the importer on the entry, as an active VAT payer it can deduct that VAT on its return; Article 33a of the VAT Act lets an importer settle it in the return instead, if it files monthly JPK_V7M and meets the other conditions on biznes.gov.pl, including declaring through a customs representative. Ask your księgowy and tell us before the entry is filed.

Yes: garments sold to consumers in Poland need their label information in Polish. Article 7 of the Polish Language Act applies Polish to consumer trade on Polish territory, and Article 7a extends it in particular to the naming of goods, to warnings and consumer information required by other regulations, and to information about a product's properties, which covers a fibre label. Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 sets the content: each fibre under its generic name with its percentage, largest first, on a durable and legible label, so the fibre names appear in Polish. That regulation does not require a country of origin, but the customs declaration states Bangladesh, and any 'Made in' line you choose to print has to be accurate. We sew the label in Polish to your artwork, adding other languages if you also sell elsewhere in the Union, and the GPSR name-and-address details can sit on the same label, or on the packaging only where the garment cannot carry it.

The EU-established responsible economic operator is: when your Polish company is the importer placing the garments on the Polish market, that is you, under the General Product Safety Regulation (EU) 2023/988, which has applied since 13 December 2024. Selling under your own name or trademark makes you the manufacturer under Article 3(8), so the risk analysis and the technical file are yours to draw up, with our help during production; you keep the file for ten years and put your own name, postal and electronic address on the garment, or on the packaging where that is not possible, with a batch or style identifier. Because Article 7a of the Polish Language Act covers warnings and consumer information, any safety wording for Poland goes in Polish as well. For organic pieces, GOTS certificate RSC 9687 supplies the fibre, chemistry and traceability records behind the file, with the scope certificate available on request. The REACH limit on azo dyes in textiles worn against the skin applies to every piece, whatever the fibre.

It depends on whether the calendar or the landed cost decides: Turkey suits a Polish brand that needs stock in weeks, not months, and Bangladesh suits cotton knit basics at low minimums, GOTS-certified production and landed cost. Both enter Poland without duty, on different grounds: our garments under Everything But Arms, Turkish goods in free circulation under the EU–Turkey customs union. Poland's 23% import VAT applies to both, so the difference sits in the unit price and the freight. Turkey reaches Poland by road and short-sea in days rather than weeks, while our goods travel via Suez to Gdańsk or Gdynia, and we quote the transit for your port. Turkey is also strong in denim and knit at mid-range cost, and you carry a higher unit cost for its speed. Choose our floor for cut-and-sew knitwear at 150 pieces per style and colour, with the GPSR file built during production.

About ten days for sampling, forty to fifty days for production once the pre-production sample is signed off, then transit to Gdańsk or Gdynia by sea, sometimes on a direct Asia service, or to Warsaw Chopin by air in days; we confirm the figure for your port with the quote. Gdańsk is the usual sea entry, with Gdynia beside it, and Warsaw Chopin is the air entry. The quote puts freight, the customs entry at Gdańsk, Gdynia or Warsaw, the import VAT and delivery to any Polish address inside one landed price. The commercial invoice and packing list reach you before the goods move, and we confirm the origin paperwork for your entry with the quote, so your księgowy and your warehouse can prepare for the arrival. Count back from your on-sale date in Poland with our launch-date calculator, and tell us early if your range is timed to a Polish season. From order to your door, plan on about 70 days by air.

Bangladesh is five hours ahead of Poland in winter and four in summer. Bangladesh Standard Time is UTC+6 with no daylight saving, which is why the gap changes when Poland moves its clocks, and why a Polish morning is already afternoon in Narayanganj. Our Amsterdam office at Soetendaal 61 works in your time zone, so design conversations, samples and compliance paperwork can run inside your own working day rather than across the gap. The working language is English, and we reply within one business day. What your customers read is prepared in Polish: under Articles 7 and 7a of the Polish Language Act, the naming of the goods, the fibre names, warnings and consumer information on labels for Poland are in Polish, sewn to your artwork. Walter Meyer, our QC lead, brings 38 years in the trade and checks finished pieces against your approved sample before DDP shipping.

Eurostat counts 10,550 clothing manufacturers in Poland in 2024, the businesses classed under NACE C14, manufacture of wearing apparel, and they employed 60,879 people. That is an average of about six people per firm, and both numbers have fallen every year since 2021, when there were 12,456 firms and 74,182 people. The count takes in very small businesses, so a directory that lists a few dozen Polish factories is showing only a slice of the sector. For a founder this means two things. Finding a Polish workshop is not hard, in Łódź above all, and a local workshop is the natural place for a short re-cut of a woven or tailored piece. Whether a given workshop takes cut-and-sew knitwear in several colours is a separate question, so ask each about its minimum per colour, its sampling time and which stages it does in-house. For knitwear, we cut and sew from 150 pieces per style and colour, DDP to Poland.

Mostly from other EU countries and from Asia. Eurostat's Comext data show Poland imported 434,705 tonnes of knitted clothing in 2025, the customs chapter that covers tees, hoodies, sweatshirts and joggers. About 45% of that tonnage came from other EU member states, and it made up about 65% of the value. Bangladesh supplied 83,176 tonnes, 19.1% of the total and the most of any partner country, narrowly ahead of Germany at 83,095 tonnes and ahead of China at 72,941; for trade inside the EU, Eurostat records the country goods were sent from, not where they were made. Of the knitwear arriving from outside the Union, Bangladesh supplied 35.0% by weight and 33.2% by value, ahead of China, India, Türkiye and Pakistan. An order from our floor follows that route: it clears at 0% duty under Everything But Arms with the exporter's statement on origin, and pays the same 23% import VAT as any non-EU import.