Wholesale clothing manufacturer in Bangladesh for distributors and importers

Placing production, not buying stock

CMB Sourcing Ltd. is a manufacturer and buying house, not a stockist. A wholesale order with us is a production order: your styles, in your fabric and colours, under your label or unbranded, made in our own factory or an audited partner factory in Bangladesh and shipped to your warehouse. There is no catalogue to pick from and no goods on a shelf, which is why a price per piece made to order is set by your specification, not by a stockist’s margin. Bangladesh built its position as the world’s second-largest clothing exporter on exactly this kind of order, volume basics made to a specification and repeated, and the published figures show the scale: ready-made garments earned US$38.70 billion in the year to June 2026.

The trade-off is the minimum and the lead time. A distributor who needs 200 mixed pieces next week is better served by a stockist; a distributor who sells the same polo, tee, fleece or workwear line season after season, in thousands of pieces, is the buyer this page is written for.

Minimums by category

We publish no prices: fabric weight, decoration, colours, quantity and shipping term set each one, so every style is quoted from your tech pack or a reference garment, with a first costing within one working day. The minimums are fixed, and they shape a range plan before any price does. Our own orders start at 500 pieces per style and colour; the table shows where that 500 is confirmed, as it is for t-shirts and hoodies, and where a category starts higher, such as denim, jackets, woven shirts and workwear at 2,000; every other category’s exact minimum is confirmed on your quote. Once you have a price per piece, the order cost estimator multiplies it by your quantity.

How a wholesale price is built

A wholesale price from a Bangladesh factory is built line by line, and a distributor who knows the lines negotiates better. Fabric is the largest, close to half of a knitted garment’s price in a published costing study, and it moves with weight, fibre and whether the shade is a stock colour or a custom dye lot. Cutting, sewing and finishing are the labour lines, driven by the number of operations in the style. Trims and packaging follow, then testing where your market requires it, inspection, and the export documents. Ask for the quote to list what the price per piece includes.

Three choices move a wholesale price more than anything else: the colour count, because each colour is its own fabric lot and minimum; the decoration, where a one-colour print costs a fraction of a four-colour print or a large embroidery; and the packing, because retail-ready packing with hangers, size stickers and barcodes is a separate operation from bulk polybags. We quote each as a line you can switch on or off.

• Fabric composition, weight and colour: the biggest line and the first to specify
• Style complexity: panels, pockets, plackets and finishes each add operations
• Decoration: method, colours and size, quoted per placement
• Packing: bulk polybag and carton, or retail-ready with hangers and barcodes
• Shipping term: FOB Chattogram, CIF to your port, or DDP to your door

Minimums per style and per colour

Minimums exist because a factory plans a sewing line around a style and a mill dyes a fabric lot for it. Our own orders start at 500 pieces per style and colour, which is also the minimum for t-shirts and hoodies. Denim, jackets, woven shirts, workwear and uniforms start at 2,000; underwear at 5,000 pieces and socks at 5,000 pairs; any other category gets its exact minimum on the quote. The number that surprises first-time importers is the per-colour minimum: a style in six colours is six fabric lots, each with its own dye minimum, so a 1,200-piece order split six ways may not clear it. We plan a range against the per-colour minimum and say where a colour should wait for the reorder. For quantities below our minimum, small runs are made by our sister company, Collective Studio Ltd., and managed by us, as the low MOQ page describes; Collective Studio quotes those orders separately.

Running a repeat programme

Distributors live on reorders, and a reorder is only useful if it matches the first delivery. Keep the standards as physical objects, not notes: the sealed pre-production sample, the approved lab dip for each colour, the final measurement sheet and the fabric details including the mill and the quality name. Ask for a reorder to be matched against them and made in the same factory unless you agree otherwise, with the inspection comparing the new goods with the sealed sample rather than with a photograph. Where a fabric quality is discontinued, we tell you before quoting and offer the nearest match with a swatch.

A programme also needs a calendar. Agree a critical path per style, fabric booking, lab dips, sample approval, production and ship date, so slippage is flagged early rather than at the end. For a line that reorders on a fixed cycle, fabric can be booked ahead against a forecast you confirm, which protects the ship date when mills are busy.

• Keep the sealed sample, lab dips, measurement sheet and fabric record under your name
• Ask for the same factory on reorders unless you agree a change
• Ask for inspection against the sealed sample, with the report before shipment
• Ask for a written critical path per style, with fabric booked against your confirmed forecast
• Keep the label, packing and barcode files, so a reorder needs only quantities and dates

Landed cost by market

A wholesale price only means something delivered, so plan on landed cost: the factory price plus freight, insurance, duty and tax at import. Duty is where Bangladesh origin pays off in most markets, and our market pages hold the sourced position for each. The figures below are the duty positions from those pages on the dates shown there; the landed cost calculator turns an FOB price into a delivered figure for any of them.

• UK: 0% duty under the Developing Countries Trading Scheme with proof of origin; 20% import VAT, with young children’s clothing zero-rated
• EU: 0% duty under Everything But Arms with a REX statement on origin, continuing until about November 2032, three years after graduation
• US: no preference; base duty of 16.5% on cotton t-shirts and sweatshirts, 19.7% on cotton knit shirts such as polos and 32% on man-made fibre knit tops, plus a 10% additional tariff from 24 July 2026
• Canada: 0% duty under the Least Developed Country Tariff, intended to continue for three years after graduation; 5% GST at import
• Australia: 0% duty under the Australian System of Tariff Preferences; 10% GST at import
• Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait: 5% of CIF value under the GCC common tariff; 15% VAT in Saudi Arabia, 5% in the UAE, none in Kuwait

What a distributor has to supply

A production order needs the information a stock purchase does not. Send it with the enquiry and the quote comes back faster and holds better.

If you sell on to department stores, their vendor manuals add carton rules of their own: a GS1-128 label carrying a Serial Shipping Container Code (SSCC) on every carton, matched to the advance ship notice (ASN) your company sends, with a charge per carton when they disagree. The retailer page sets out what those manuals ask for and what to send so the cartons are right the first time; the packing list template lists them by carton number.

• Styles and quantities per style, per colour and per size, or a size ratio
• Label content for your market: fibre composition, origin, care, and your brand or a neutral label
• Packing specification: pieces per polybag and carton, carton markings, and any retail-ready requirements
• Barcodes and hangtags, with the artwork or the files to print them
• For goods going on to a department store: its vendor manual and routing guide, and the SSCC carton labels from your own GS1 Company Prefix
• The countries you distribute to, so labels and documents suit each on arrival
• Shipping term and destination, and whether you want a landed (DDP) figure

Payment and shipping terms

We quote on FOB, CIF or DDP terms and state which on every quote, so two quotes can be compared like with like. Goods ship from Chattogram sea port or Dhaka airport. Payment terms are not published: ask for them in writing with your quote, before production, and ask for the delivery date to be stated on the order confirmation. The shipping documents, commercial invoice, packing list, transport document and proof of origin, are sent as the goods leave.