Clothing Manufacturer for Spanish Brands

No, not at present: a garment cut and sewn on our floor enters Spain at 0% duty under the EU's Everything But Arms arrangement, because Spain applies the Union's common customs rules. The preference rests on a single-transformation origin rule, met by cutting and sewing in Narayanganj, and it is claimed on the Spanish import declaration, whether the goods clear at Valencia, Barcelona, Algeciras or Madrid-Barajas. Bangladesh's graduation from UN Least Developed Country status is now set for 24 November 2029, after the UN General Assembly granted its request to move the date on 29 October 2026. Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2026/1395 keeps EBA for three years from the date a country stops qualifying, so Spanish imports stay duty-free to at least late November 2032; our LDC graduation guide covers what may follow. The tax that does apply is Spain's 21% import VAT, whatever the origin, and our DDP quote includes it.

Clothing imported into Spain pays VAT at 21%, the tipo general, on the customs value plus any duty. The Agencia Tributaria states "El tipo general de IVA es el 21%" (read 27 Sep 2026); its 10% and 4% reduced rates cover food, medicines and other listed goods, not garments. Article 83 of Ley 37/1992 makes the base wider than the factory price: freight and insurance to the EU border sit inside the customs value, and transport on to the first place of destination in Spain is added. Take 500 tees whose customs value, freight included, comes to US$3,000: with 0% duty the import VAT is about US$630, plus 21% of any inland transport to that first destination. On a DDP order, that VAT is already in the landed price you approve. If your company is the importer named on the customs declaration and is VAT-registered, it recovers the VAT on its periodic return. The Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla are covered below.

Yes: a Spanish brand can order 150 pieces per style and colour, cut and sewn to its own pattern and delivered DDP to an address on the peninsula or the Balearics. The minimum counts per colour, not across a range: one hoodie in black needs at least 150 pieces, and the same hoodie in black and cream needs 300, because the fabric is dyed shade by shade at the mill. Spread over sizes, 150 pieces gives about 45 each in M and L on a common curve. The label is settled once per style: one artwork, in Spanish as Real Decreto 928/1987 requires or in Spanish and Catalan, reused on every reorder of that style. For a first drop into shops in Madrid or Barcelona, one style deep in one colour is the lowest-risk start. Before you ask for a quote, the MOQ calculator divides your 150 by size and colour.

Yes: garments sold in Spain must carry their label information at least in Spanish. Article 6.17 of Real Decreto 928/1987, Spain's textile-labelling decree, says the information must appear "al menos, en la lengua española oficial del Estado". Article 16(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 lets each member state require its own official language, and Spain does. The EU regulation fixes the content: every fibre by generic name and percentage, in descending order, on a durable, legible label. Catalan or another language can sit alongside the Spanish but cannot replace it, so a range stocked by shops in Catalonia still carries the Spanish text, with Catalan beside it if you want it there. Our floor sews your label artwork in Spanish plus Catalan, Portuguese or any other language you sell in, so a single label can serve a range sold in Spain and Portugal. The decree is published on the BOE, amended several times since 1987 and still in force.

About ten days for sampling, forty to fifty days for production once the pre-production sample is signed off, then transit to Valencia, Barcelona or Algeciras by sea, a shorter leg than to northern Europe, or to Madrid-Barajas by air; we confirm the figure for your port with the quote. We ship DDP to any address on the peninsula or the Balearics, so the freight, the Spanish customs entry, the 21% import VAT and the delivery sit inside one landed price, and you see the commercial invoice and packing list before the goods move. Air into Madrid-Barajas tends to suit a small first drop or an urgent reorder of one style, while sea into a Mediterranean port suits a full range. Ask us to price both routes landed, and compare them like for like before you commit a launch date to your stockists. To plan that launch, the launch-date calculator on our resources page counts back from your on-sale date. From order to your door, plan on about 70 days by air.

Yes: our Amsterdam office handles design conversations, samples and compliance paperwork in English or Spanish, and it sits in the same time zone as peninsular Spain, so a founder in Madrid or Valencia can review a sample and settle paperwork without switching language or waiting for a factory morning. The floor itself is in Narayanganj, where Bangladesh Standard Time is UTC+6 with no daylight saving, four to five hours ahead of peninsular Spain. The floor works Saturday to Thursday, 09:00 to 17:00, so your morning overlaps our afternoon, and Amsterdam covers the rest of your working day. Every message gets a reply within one business day. If you are comparing fabricantes de ropa and would rather brief us in Spanish from the start, write your first message in Spanish; design conversations, sample feedback and compliance paperwork then continue in Spanish through Amsterdam. Tell us your language preference when you send your brief.

Use a clothing manufacturer in Portugal when a made-in-Europe label matters more than unit cost; use Bangladesh when the range is cotton knit basics and landed cost matters, since our floor ships to Spain duty-free under Everything But Arms from 150 pieces per style and colour. Portugal suits premium positioning and small runs, at what we see as the highest unit cost of the usual options. Buying from Portugal means no import and no customs entry, but it does not avoid Spanish VAT: a VAT-registered Spanish buyer accounts for 21% on an EU purchase just as it pays 21% at import, and recovers it either way. So compare landed prices before VAT, not ex-works prices. Our side adds organic cotton under our GOTS certification, RSC 9687, and one DDP price covering freight and the Spanish customs entry. If you have already priced a Portuguese workshop, send us the same tech pack and compare the two quotes line by line.

No: clothing cut and sewn in Bangladesh has Bangladeshi origin, so a "Hecho en España" or "Fabricado en España" label on it would be a false origin claim. Origin follows where the garment is made, not where the brand is registered, and the Spanish import declaration names Bangladesh as the country of origin. Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011, which governs fibre labels across the EU, does not require origin on the garment, so printing "Made in Bangladesh" is your choice; printing another country is not. A true line about design, such as "Diseñado en Barcelona", is a different claim from a statement of manufacture, but wording that mentions Spain on a garment made elsewhere can still mislead a shopper, so check it with your asesor before the artwork is final. We sew the label to your approved artwork, and any origin claim on it must be true.

If your Spanish company is the importer, it is the EU-established responsible economic operator under the General Product Safety Regulation (EU) 2023/988, which has applied since 13 December 2024; a factory outside the EU cannot take that role, though an EU authorised representative can. The importer's name, postal and electronic address go on the garment or its packaging, as Article 11(3) requires, alongside our details as manufacturer and the Spanish-language fibre label that Real Decreto 928/1987 requires. The regulation splits the file: under Article 9(2) the manufacturer carries out the internal risk analysis and draws up the technical documentation, and under Article 11 the importer checks this has been done and ensures it can be shown to the authorities. We hand over the GPSR file built during production. For organic styles made under our GOTS certificate, RSC 9687, the scope certificate is available on request. Name the importer when you ask for a quote, so its details go on the label artwork.

Yes, but a Canary Islands delivery is not a 21% Spanish VAT import: under Article 3 of Ley 37/1992 the islands sit outside the VAT territory, and we quote the entry separately. An order delivered to Las Palmas or Tenerife comes under the islands' own indirect tax, the Impuesto General Indirecto Canario (IGIC), rather than peninsular IVA, and we work out that entry with your customs broker. The same article also places Ceuta and Melilla outside the VAT territory, so deliveries there are priced on their own terms. For a brand with a shop or stockroom in the islands, the landed price, the paperwork and the tax treatment all differ from a delivery to Madrid or Valencia. Every VAT figure and worked example on this page covers the peninsula and the Balearics only. If you sell in both places, tell us the split when you ask for a quote, and we will price the Canarian delivery on its own.

Yes, if your company is the importer named on the customs declaration. The Agencia Tributaria says an operator must hold an EORI number before a customs declaration is filed, and for a company established in Spain it is ES followed by its Spanish tax identification number. You apply through the agency's sede electrónica, or in writing to the customs office for your tax address. The Commission's 2022 summary of national EORI procedures adds that Spain registers operators who already hold a Spanish tax number ex officio, that registration takes less than a week, and that getting a tax number first takes about 10 working days. A new sociedad limitada can therefore settle it during the 40 to 50 days of production. If your company will be the importer on a DDP order, send us the number with your order, so the customs entry is filed in its name and the Everything But Arms preference is claimed on it.

In the year to June 2026 the Export Promotion Bureau recorded US$3,794.3 million of Bangladeshi goods shipped to Spain, making it Bangladesh's fourth-largest destination after the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom, with 7.9% of all exports. Clothing is nearly all of it: US$2,041.2 million of knitted apparel and US$1,560.6 million of woven apparel. The biggest single heading is 6109, T-shirts, singlets and vests, at US$954.5 million, followed by women's woven suits, dresses and skirts under 6204 at US$696.9 million and men's woven suits and trousers under 6203 at US$456.6 million. For a Spanish founder the useful point is that the lane is well worn: a knit shipment from Bangladesh is ordinary trade for Spanish customs, not a special case. These are national export statistics across every buyer; your own order is quoted on its tech pack, from 150 pieces per style and colour, and woven styles go through our sister buying house.