Manufacturing in Bangladesh for Canadian brands

What Canada expects on top of the garment.

The Canada importer checklist.

• Confirm with a customs broker that your product qualifies for duty-free entry under the renewed GPT origin rules, and document the fabric source accordingly.
• Specify bilingual (English and French) fibre content and care labelling in the tech pack.
• Settle dealer identification — CA number or full name and address — before labels are woven.
• Ask for compliance certificates you can verify against the issuing body, not photographs.
• Get a freight quote to your entry port before you price the range; sea transit to the Pacific and Atlantic coasts differs by weeks.

What Canada buyers ask.

• Will Bangladeshi apparel still be duty-free in Canada after LDC graduation?

  Yes, for qualifying goods — and Canada is one of the few markets where this was settled in advance rather than left to chance. Bangladesh leaves Least Developed Country status in November 2026, which would normally end the duty-free access it has had under Canada's LDCT since 2003 and restore an average apparel duty of roughly 17 percent. Ottawa pre-empted that in 2024 by renewing the General Preferential Tariff to the end of 2034 and relaxing its apparel rules of origin, so garments that qualify keep duty-free entry after graduation. The word doing the work in that sentence is qualify: the preference depends on how the garment meets the origin rules, which turn on where the fabric came from and where it was made. Confirm your specific product with a customs broker. The preference is real, but it is conditional.

• Do I need French on the labels?

  Yes. Canadian textile labelling requires fibre content and the dealer's identity to appear in both English and French, and bilingual care instructions are expected in practice by every major retailer. This is the most common thing US-focused brands get wrong when they add Canada: a label built for an American retailer is not compliant north of the border, and the fix after landing — unpicking and re-sewing thousands of labels — costs far more than the bilingual label would have. Tell us at tech-pack stage that the range is going to Canada and we build the label to Canadian requirements from the start.

• How is duty calculated in Canada compared with the EU?

  On a different base, which matters even when the rate is zero because it changes what you are declaring. Canada assesses duty on transaction value — the price you actually paid for the goods — which for an FOB purchase excludes the international freight and insurance. The EU assesses on CIF, so freight is part of the taxed value. For a duty-free Canadian shipment the rate is nil either way, but the customs value you declare is the FOB price, and getting that basis right on the paperwork avoids a query at the border. Our landed cost calculator applies the Canadian basis when you select Canada as the destination.