KK Fashion Exports is a clothing manufacturer in Noida, Indië, producing for apparel brands, retailers and wholesale distributors in the United States. We have been an export house since 2003, we employ 51–200 people, and we make woven womenswear, scarves and accessories to buyers’ own designs and labels.
This page is written for the person running the supplier check. It sets out what we can put a document behind, what we cannot, and what a US programme has to specify to come out of an Indian factory correctly.
Sociale naleving: What We Can Evidence
Eight SMETA audits between 2017 en januari 2026
KK Fashion Exports has completed acht SMETA-audits tussen 2017 en januari 2026, under the 4-Pillar protocol, audited by URS-verificatie Private Limited. The audit history, with the years, is on our certificeringen en nalevingspagina.
SMETA is an audit methodology, not a certification scheme. There is no SMETA certificate and no pass mark — what exists is a dated report, tied to one named site and produced by a named audit body. The 4-Pillar protocol covers Labour Standards, Gezondheid & Veiligheid, Environment and Business Ethics; a 2-Pillar report covers only the first two. The labour pillar is assessed against the Ethical Trading Initiative Base Code and its nine clauses. Sedex is a permissioned platform, not a public database — a report becomes visible when the audited site links to a buyer, so the request comes to us, not to a lookup.
What we do not hold
We do not hold GOTS, OEKO-TEX, GRS, RCS, WRAP, ISO 9001 of ISO 14001. Where a programme needs certified organic or recycled fibre, we can source from a certified mill and pass through that mill’s own certification documentation — that certification belongs to the mill, not to us. Better stated here than discovered during your own audit.
Forced-labour traceability
Since June 2022 the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act has given US Customs and Border Protection a rebuttable presumption that goods with any Xinjiang input are inadmissible, and cotton is an enforcement priority sector. The burden lands on the importer to evidence fibre origin, not merely to hold a supplier assurance. For a given order we can pass through the fabric purchase documentation and the mill’s declarations, so your file starts from a document.
Labelling That Has to Be Right Before the Goods Ship
Fibre content, origin and care
Under the FTC’s Textile Fiber Products Identification Act rules (16 CFR-onderdeel 303) the label carries generic fibre names with percentages in descending order by weight, the country of origin, and the responsible company’s name or its registered identification number. Two details catch buyers out. Fibres present at 5% or less must be shown as “other fibre” rather than named, unless the fibre has a definite functional significance — which is why an elastane content is named and a decorative slub is not. And the percentages describe the fibre content of the garment, not its trims.
Country-of-origin marking is a separate customs obligation and, on most upper-body garments, sits on a permanent label at the inside centre of the neck. The Care Labeling Rule (16 CFR-onderdeel 423) requires instructions the marketer has a reasonable basis for — carrying a care label across from a previous style in a different fabric is where that breaks.
US Sizing, Grading and Fit Approval
Send a graded spec, not a size chart
“Standard US sizing” is not a specification. What a factory builds to is a points-of-measure list, a graded measurement sheet for every size in the run, and a tolerance against each point — stated as finished-garment measurements, not body measurements. Where that distinction is left implicit the pattern room has to assume, and an assumption made at pattern stage repeats across the whole cut.
Grading across a size break
A grade rule that behaves from XS to L often stops behaving at plus sizes: the increment that reads as a clean step on the bust does not distribute the same way through the armhole, the shoulder and the back rise. Hence the size set — the extremes of the run as well as the base size — rather than approving one base-size fit sample and grading outward on trust.
What changes between sample and bulk
Three things account for most of the gap between an approved sample and a disappointing bulk. A fit sample is cut single-ply from a short length while bulk is cut from a multi-ply lay, and the two do not settle identically. Woven cotton relaxes and shrinks at first wash, so if the garment will be washed, agree measurements on a washed piece. And a print or embroidery placement that reads correctly on the base size drifts at the extremes of the run unless it is specified against a seam or a point of measure rather than “as per sample”.
Export Logistics and the Documents That Travel With the Goods
We have invoiced over 400,000 pieces for export since 2023, to buyers in 27 landen en gebieden. Noida sits inside the Delhi NCR, so air freight moves through Delhi and ocean freight through the western container ports.
Incoterms decide who does the work, not only who pays
Under EXW your forwarder collects at the factory and you arrange export clearance. Under FOB we deliver and clear for export, and your risk begins at the port. Under DDP the goods reach your door with duty paid — which also means somebody on the seller’s side must be, or must appoint, the importer of record in the United States. That is where DDP quotes come apart, so settle it in writing before the purchase order. We quote on all three (Incotermen 2020, ICC).
The paperwork
A US import normally moves with a commercial invoice, a packing list, the bill of lading or air waybill and, depending on the programme, a certificate of origin. For ocean shipments the Importer Security Filing must be lodged before the container is laden at origin, so shipment data leaves the factory earlier than first-time importers expect. Duty follows the HTS classification, which turns on construction, fibre content and, on some lines, knit versus woven — settle it with your broker at quotation stage, because it moves landed cost more than the unit-price negotiation does.
Working With Us
Minimum order quantity is van 100 stuks per stijl, typisch 300 per kleur. Per style and per colour are different measures, which is why both are stated; the reasoning is on our pagina met minimale bestelhoeveelheid.
To quote we need a tech pack or a reference garment, the fibre and construction you want, your graded spec, and the destination and Incoterm. Ontwerpen, prints and artwork are covered by a non-disclosure agreement before development begins. We manufacture to your designs and your labels.
