Clothing manufacturer in Pakistan for Canadian brands

Canada makes very little cut-and-sew apparel domestically at a price a young brand can carry, and the factories that remain want large runs. Most Canadian brands therefore already import — from China, Bangladesh, Vietnam or through a US wholesaler — and the question is only which source and at what minimum. Pakistan's answer is heavyweight cotton, grown and knitted here, made into a 270 gsm tee for around $10–14 or a 500 gsm hoodie for around $31 with print, at 50 pieces.

The winters matter too. Canadian brands sell fleece for more of the year than almost anyone, and a brushed-back 500 gsm hoodie is our most-ordered garment. It is cut, decorated, sewn and labelled under one roof, which is what keeps a small run economical.

Duty into Canada is real — around 18% on most knit garments, because Pakistan's general preferential access does not extend to apparel — and we say so on the first quote rather than the last invoice. Even with it, the landed price of a Lahore-made heavyweight tee is well under a domestic blank before printing.

Fleece leads: hoodies, crewnecks, zip hoodies and joggers in 400–500 gsm cotton or 80/20, in stock colours or a house colour from a 300-piece dye lot, with puff-print or embroidered branding. Then heavyweight tees for streetwear, activewear for the gym-brand scene, and structured caps. Then the institutional buyers — universities and colleges, hockey and lacrosse clubs, corporate uniforms, hospitality groups — whose runs are larger and whose garments are plainer.

Every decoration method is in-house, so a Canadian brand's autumn drop — three stock colourways, two garments, embroidered and printed — is one order, one sample round and one shipment.

Canada offers Pakistan a general preferential tariff on many goods, but apparel is largely carved out of it, so most knitted garments pay the standard 18% rate. There is no way round that and we do not pretend there is. What we do is state it on the quote in dollars, per piece, so a $12 heavyweight tee is understood as roughly $15–16 landed by air at 50 pieces before GST — and compared with a printed domestic blank of the same weight, which is what it competes with.

GST or HST is charged on the duty-inclusive value at import and is recoverable on your return if you are registered, so for most businesses it is cash flow rather than cost. On DDP terms we handle duty, tax and brokerage and you receive the goods with nothing to pay; on DAP or FOB you or your broker handle them and pay less to us.

Air express reaches Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver or Calgary in 4–7 days from dispatch and is the default up to a couple of cartons. Sea freight to Vancouver is the economical route for larger runs; to Montreal or Toronto it is longer and often no cheaper than routing through Vancouver by rail.

Canada's Textile Labelling Act requires three things on a permanent label: the fibre content by generic name and percentage in both English and French — "100% coton / 100% cotton"; the identity of the dealer, either as a name and postal address or as a CA identification number issued by the Competition Bureau; and, for imported garments, the country of origin. Care instructions are not mandatory in Canada but every brand uses them, and we print the bilingual GINETEX symbols on the same side-seam label.

Most Canadian brands register a CA number — it is free and takes a few days — and give it to us with the label artwork. If you do not have one yet, your name and postal address serve. If you sell children's wear, we design to the drawstring and flammability rules at the tech-pack stage. We hold the bilingual wording for every fibre blend we make; you supply the brand and the number.

Canada uses US alpha sizing and US fit conventions, and our blocks are graded to those chest and length measurements — labelled in the sizes your chart uses, with the measurements on it. Fleece for a Canadian winter is often cut with a little more room for layering; say so and we adjust the block. A garment whose fit you like can be sent to us to pattern from; a size-set sample precedes every cut-and-sew run.

Quotes are in US dollars as standard and in Canadian dollars on request. Payment is by international wire or through the transfer platforms most Canadian brands already use for US suppliers. A production deposit is taken before the sample is made and the balance before dispatch; nothing is charged before you have a price and have approved a mockup in writing. A pre-production sample is produced free with any production order once the deposit is received. A sample before committing to production is possible and charged, typically $40–100 for a decorated garment, credited against the bulk order.