Shipment versus programme
A single shipment is sold at the export price (FOB), and the buyer picks the lowest offer. In a programme, you sell availability. You keep EU stock, deliver every week, build up stock for the season and settle claims within days. Retailers pay more for a programme, and the entity that owns the stock earns this extra amount.
Compliance duties in your own name
Fibre labelling, product safety, the incoming textile EPR, and buyers’ due-diligence audits: the BV has the registrations for these. The BV (besloten vennootschap, the Dutch private limited company) also presents the factory group’s file first-hand. That is the same compliance-as-asset relocate the region’s leaders are making.
Exporting to Europe? Check the EU requirements for your product in the Europe Ready Check: registrations, representatives and dates.
The details
Under GSP+, the import duty is zero when the origin documents are in order. With Article 23, you declare and deduct the import VAT in the same VAT return. With OSS, you can also sell your own brand directly to consumers next to retail. You keep one administration for everything. See the cashflow calculation.
Is your group setting up a Dutch entity? See setting up a Dutch subsidiary for what you need, how long it takes and what the parent company must sign.
The entity
To set up the company from Pakistan, see how the company is set up.