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5 guides on pricing for apparel importers.
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Pricing · How to
Garment costing sheets explained, with a real cost breakdown from our factory
How a factory builds your price: the costing sheet line by line, fabric consumption and price, trims, CMT, overheads, margin, with a worked t-shirt example, the levers that actually move cost, and how to read a quote like an insider.
26 August 2026 · 2 min read
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Private label · Pricing
Merch beyond print-on-demand: when creators and bands should go factory-direct
A print-on-demand hoodie costs $28–37 per unit, forever. At drop volumes, a fully custom heavyweight hoodie with your woven label costs less than that catalogue blank. The real maths of creator and tour merch — POD, bulk printing, and factory-direct — and when each one is right.
5 August 2026 · 4 min read
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Pricing · Sourcing
What does a hoodie cost to manufacture? The full breakdown
Blank hoodies sell anywhere from $10 to $30 — why? A transparent cost breakdown: fleece consumption and fabric maths, CMT, trims, what moves the number, and how to sanity-check any quote that looks too good to be true.
4 August 2026 · 4 min read
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Pricing · Sourcing
What does it cost to manufacture a t-shirt? A cost breakdown for brands
Where your per-shirt cost actually comes from — fabric, cutting, sewing, trims, finishing, and how duty affects your true landed cost when sourcing from Nepal.
13 July 2026 · 2 min read
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Duty-free · Pricing
How to legally reduce your apparel import duty
Import duty can be 10–30% of your cost. Here are the legitimate ways brands lower it — trade preferences, sourcing country, rules of origin, and correct classification.
13 July 2026 · 2 min read
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