Decide which origins you can buy from
Duty and quota into your country, payment rules, and the sailing time you can live with.
The duty on the way in is on the duty page’s inbound table: what Bangladesh, Pakistan and China charge on cotton, yarn and fabric, and the three exporter schemes that can take it to zero. Sailing time and payment rules are between you and the seller; no honest public table covers them.
Tools for this step
- Import duty on fibre and yarn
Find your tariff line and read the base United States, European and British rate, with the code each one was read at.
- Seven supplier countries, side by side
Compare Pakistan, India, China, Bangladesh and the rest on wages, power reliability, currency, cost of money and the tariff they face, each figure stamped with its own year.
- Country cost indicators Excel
Take the whole origin comparison away as a sheet, with a reference year in its own column against every figure.
Every tool for this guide, grouped by what you are trying to do, is on the tools page.
