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Domestic stock is not a cheaper shirt. It is a shorter, more predictable, lower-risk shirt — and for a first order or a fixed deadline those are worth more than the unit-price difference.
Send the weight, colour, fit and quantity. We return a unit price per quantity tier within 24 hours.
A shirt that has already cleared customs and sits in a warehouse in the destination country. The freight and duty are already inside the price you are quoted, which is why the number looks higher than a FOB quote from China.
What you get in exchange is time: days instead of ten to thirteen weeks, and no customs stage that can hold goods for reasons outside anyone’s control.
Duty exposure, because it is paid. Customs delay, because there is no border crossing. And paperwork, because there is no entry to file and no broker to appoint.
For a small buyer the paperwork saving is larger than it looks: a broker entry costs $100–200, which on a 100-piece order is $1–2 per shirt — more than the entire per-piece price gap between routes.
Unit cost. Domestic stock is more expensive per shirt than a production run at volume, and it always will be, because someone else carried the freight, the duty and the inventory risk before you arrived.
The crossover is around several thousand pieces: below it, stock usually wins on total landed cost once you count time and risk; above it, a direct run wins on price.
Printers topping up between production runs. Brands testing a colour before committing. Teams and events with a date. Anyone who needs a shirt this month rather than this quarter.
And buyers who cannot open a distributor account — which, for a first-time business without a resale certificate, is most of them.
| Lead time | Days to two weeks |
|---|---|
| Duty and customs | Already paid, no entry required |
| Minimum | 100 pieces per style and colour |
| Trade-off | Higher unit price than a production run |
| Best for | First orders, deadlines, colour tests, print shops |
Per shirt yes; per landed sellable shirt it often wins below a few thousand pieces, once duty, freight and time are counted.
No. That is the main practical difference from a large US distributor.
Days. Domestic ground is 1–6 business days depending on the zone.
Above several thousand pieces, or when you need a custom weight or colour that stock cannot provide.
Yes — every style has a page with weight, colours, sizes and prices.
A fabric swatch and a sewn sample come before the bulk run, and finished goods are photographed before packing.