Post one spec. Vetted Egyptian factories compete to make it.
Egypt is the cheapest way into America.
Order value
$12,500 at the border from Egypt
$16,500 less than from Vietnam, $24,000 less than from China.
20–25 days from Port Said to New York
About two weeks ahead of Ho Chi Minh City.
7 hours ahead of New York
A morning call from New York reaches Cairo the same afternoon.
- EgyptLowest
12.5% duty: QIZ waives the other 16.5%
$12,500
- Bangladesh
26.5% duty
$26,500
- India
26.5% duty
$26,500
- Vietnam
29% duty
$29,000
- China
36.5% duty
$36,500
Duty is for a cotton T-shirt, Section 301 included. Transit is by sea, port to port.1,2,7,8
Why Egypt
Six numbers. Every one is sourced.
1
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Saved at the US border
16.5% on cotton tees, 32% on synthetics. From Egypt’s QIZ factories, garments pay none of it.
2
0–0 days
Sooner in New York than from Vietnam
Port Said to New York takes 20–25 days by sea. Ho Chi Minh City takes 34–42.
3
0+
Textile and garment companies in Egypt
1,293 of them are in the QIZ program.
4
0 mm
The world’s finest cotton
Extra-long staple, spun into the softest, strongest fabric there is.
5
$0,000,000
Garment exports in 2025
Up 20% in one year.
6
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Workers in the industry
Egypt’s second-largest industrial sector.
How it works
For brands
- 1
Post a detailed spec
Garment, sizes, fabric, prints and packaging, from clean menus.
- 2
Compare bids from vetted factories
Price, lead time, sample cost and certificates, side by side.
- 3
Track every step and pay safely
Your money stays in escrow until you approve the delivery.
For factories
- 1
List your floor once
Machines, certificates, capacity and minimums. In Arabic or English.
- 2
Bid on real US orders
Every request shows how well it fits your factory.
- 3
Get paid in full, in dollars
The order is funded before you ship.
Your money stays yours until you approve the delivery
Buyers never pay a factory directly. Here is a $10,000 order:
- 1
$5,000
Buyer pays 50%
Into NOIR escrow, not to the factory
- 2
—
Sample and production
Factory sews with updates in the order room
- 3
—
Final inspection
AQL report on the packed goods
- 4
$5,000
Buyer pays the other 50%
Still held by NOIR until delivery
- 5
$10,000
Funds released
To the factory once the buyer confirms delivery
Your first order is free. After it, NOIR is $99 a month for brands and $199 a month for factories, with no commission on any order.
Bids, not quotes
Every public request is shown to every published factory on NOIR. Nobody wins your order without competing for it.
Bids on your request
Oversized heavyweight hoodie, 600 pcs| Factory | Per piece | Lead time | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obour Fleece House | $15.80 | 30 days | $60 |
| Delta Knit Works | $16.20 | 35 days | $45 |
| Qalyub Knit StudioBest price | $13.90 | 38 days | $45 |
Sources
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- 1USITC, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States: heading 6109.10.00 (cotton T-shirts) General rate 16.5%; 6109.90.10 (T-shirts of man-made fibres) and 6110.30.30 (man-made fibre sweatshirts and pullovers) General rate 32%; in each case the Special rate is Free for Israel (IL), under which QIZ garments enter. Source
- 2USTR, Section 301 forced-labor investigations, final action of 23 July 2026, in force from 24 July 2026: 12.5% on products of Egypt, China and Vietnam; 10% on Bangladesh and India. Source
- 3American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt, Qualifying Industrial Zones: 1,293 QIZ companies as of September 2025, 80% producing apparel; QIZ exports of USD 1.4 billion in 2025, half of Egypt’s exports to the US. Source
- 4Egypt’s Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade, via Arab Finance / Zawya: ready-made garment exports of $3.394 billion in 2025, up 20% from $2.846 billion in 2024. Source
- 5Cotton Research Institute via the Egyptian Cotton Association, fibre quality of the 2023–24 crop (May 2025): Giza 87, 93 and 96 upper-half mean length 35.9, 36.6 and 36.2 mm. Source
- 6Better Work Egypt (ILO / IFC), annual report 2024: the garment sector employs around 1.5 million people. Source
- 7Sea transit to New York: ACS Logistics (Port Said 20–25 days); Warp ocean rate captures, September 2026 (Shanghai 31–35 days, Ho Chi Minh City 34–42); Fluent Cargo (Chittagong about 36 days, Mumbai about 30); GoFreight 2026 guide (Nhava Sheva 22–40 days by routing). Source
- 8Standard time offsets (IANA time zone database): New York UTC−5, Cairo UTC+2, Delhi UTC+5:30, Dhaka UTC+6, Hanoi UTC+7, Beijing UTC+8. Source
- 9American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt, Egypt Beyond Borders: A Manufacturing Hub (April 2026), Textile and ready-made garments: more than 14,000 companies, from micro, small and medium enterprises to local holding companies and international players. Source
- 10Cotton Egypt Association, which manages the Egyptian Cotton™ trademark for the Ministry of Trade and Industry and ALCOTEXA: Egyptian Cotton™ stands for superior quality, softness, strength and durability. Source
- 11The map behind this page is NASA’s Black Marble: the Earth’s lights at night as the Suomi NPP satellite saw them in 2016, put together from the best cloud-free nights of each month (NASA Earth Observatory, served by NASA Worldview). The shape of the land is from SRTM and GMTED2010 elevation data, courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey; Egypt’s outline is from Natural Earth. NASA is the source of the picture and does not endorse NOIR. Source
Figures checked November 2026. Duty rates change; confirm with a customs broker before you price an order.