{"id":30715,"date":"2026-08-31T11:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/26-point-duty-gap-could-favour-flexible-apparel-sourcing\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:25:07","slug":"26-point-duty-gap-could-favour-flexible-apparel-sourcing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/26-point-duty-gap-could-favour-flexible-apparel-sourcing\/","title":{"rendered":"26-point duty gap could favour flexible apparel sourcing"},"content":{"rendered":"


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For a decade, apparel sourcing decisions focused on one question: which country to source from. A rebuilt United States tariff structure is now raising a different question which countries to source from, and how quickly a brand can move between them. The commercial value of this flexibility is rising fast. A new alliance suggests that large sourcing intermediaries now plan to offer this flexibility as a service.<\/p>\n

On July *<\/span>*<\/span>, *<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span>, India\u2019s PDS Limited and Indonesia\u2019s Busana Apparel Group announced a strategic partnership covering six manufacturing locations-Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Honduras and Italy. The partnership is designed to help brands shift orders as tariffs, costs, capacity and delivery needs change. Legally, the deal is modest. It is a non-binding alliance with no disclosed equity stake or investment. It gives PDS\u2019s manufacturing arm access to Busana\u2019s existing multi-country network. The ability to take advantage of tariff differences almost in real time is becoming a sourcing capability.<\/p>\n

\tTariff gap that could put Central America back on the sourcing map<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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For a decade, apparel sourcing decisions focused on one question: which country to source from. A rebuilt United States tariff structure is now raising a different question which countries to source from, and how quickly a brand can move between them. The commercial value of this flexibility is rising fast. A new alliance suggests that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}