Hoodie manufacturer for pullovers and zip-ups
We make hoodies in 350 to 500 gsm fabric. Freight to a US address comes to $307–540 for 50 of them, depending on the fabric weight.
Get a free quote- 50 per color
- minimum for a custom hoodie, or 50 per style ready-made
- $12.50–22.50
- a custom hoodie at 50–99 pieces
- 11–18 days
- to a US address for a ready-made hoodie with your labels
- 31–48 days
- from deposit to delivery for a custom hoodie sent by air
Landed cost per hoodie
A ready-made (Stock Match) order uses hoodies already in production at a Chinese factory, with your label sewn in. Of 17 heavyweight pullovers we priced for that route in October 2026, the middle half sold for $8.80–13.80 at 50 pieces. For a custom (Made to Order) hoodie, we cut your pattern from fabric we buy at the market. You pay its $120–220 development fee once per style. It covers the pattern and first sample, plus two rounds of changes.
| Cost | Ready-made, 50 | Custom, 50 | Custom, 300 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HoodieSizes 4XL–6XL are 15% more | $8.80–13.80 | $12.50–22.50 | $8.00–14.00 |
| Sourcing fee, 12% | $1.06–1.66 | None | None |
| Your neck label | $0.35 | Included | Included |
| Development feeSpread over the order | None | $2.40–4.40 | $0.40–0.73 |
| Burn test$50–200 per test | $1.00–4.00 | $1.00–4.00 | $0.17–0.67 |
| Freight350 gsm up to 450 gsm ready-made, or 500 gsm custom | $6.14–10.80 | $6.14–10.80 | $3.84–8.00 |
| US duty, 36.5%On the hoodie, your label and the development fee | $3.34–5.16 | $5.44–9.82 | $3.07–5.38 |
| CBP processing fee$34.58 minimum per entry | $0.69 | $0.69 | $0.12 |
| Customs broker and bond$225–400 per entry | $4.50–8.00 | $4.50–8.00 | $0.75–1.33 |
| Landed cost per hoodie | $25.88–44.46 | $32.67–60.21 | $16.35–30.23 |
We price orders of 100–299 custom hoodies on your quote.
Every order we deliver clears US customs on a formal entry, with us as the importer of record. CBP's processing fee is 0.3464% of the goods' value, with a minimum that applies to any order under $9,983. A customs broker files the entry for $150–250. On top of that comes a single-entry bond guaranteeing the duty, at $75–150. We pay all of it on arrival and bill it to you at cost.
US duty on a hoodie from China depends on whether cotton makes up more than half the fabric. Our heather fabric has more cotton than polyester and pays the lower rate. A 50/50 blend pays 52%, as does any fabric with more polyester than cotton. That adds $2.31–4.17 to a custom hoodie at 50 pieces.
Fabric weight and freight
Our lightest fabric outweighs the Gildan, Independent Trading, Champion and Hanes blanks. Only a custom order matches the Los Angeles Apparel HF-09.
- Gildan 18500 8.0 oz, 50/50 cotton and polyester
- Independent Trading SS4500 8.5 oz, 80/20 cotton and polyester
- Champion Powerblend S700 9 oz, 50/50 cotton and polyester
- Hanes Ultimate Heavyweight F170 9.7 oz, 90/10 cotton and polyester
- Los Angeles Apparel HF-09 14 oz, 100% cotton
- Our ready-made hoodies 10.3–13.3 oz
- Our custom hoodies 10.3–14.7 oz
| Fabric | Packed weight | Freight | Suits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 350 gsm | 30–35 kg | $307–461 by express | Everyday wear for most of the year |
| 400 gsm | 35–40 kg | $307–480 by express | Autumn and winter |
| 450 gsm | 40–45 kg | $320–540 by express | A winter hoodie with a firm, structured body |
| 500 gsm | 45–50 kg | $315–500 by air | Cold climates and heavyweight streetwear |
We pack 25 hoodies to an export carton. Couriers charge a carton by its size when that comes to more than its weight. One of our cartons counts as at least 19.2 kg by express. Fifty 350 gsm hoodies fill two and go on the bill as 38.4 kg.
Air freight costs less per kilo but has a 45 kg minimum. Fifty hoodies in 500 gsm fabric reach it. Three hundred weigh 180–300 kg packed and fly at $6–8 a kilo.
Every weight comes brushed, with a soft pile inside, or as loopback. That's the unbrushed knit of our French terry sweatshirts.
Delivery days
Ready-made
- 7–10 daysSourcing from the factory or wholesaler
- 1–2Your labels in, then our check
- 3–6Express to your door
Custom, by air
- 7–12 daysFirst sample
- 3–6Sample to you by express
- 15–20Production, from your sign-off
- 6–10Air freight to your door
Fifty custom hoodies under 45 kg go by express instead of air and arrive 3–4 days sooner.
Fabric dyed to your color needs 5–7 more days. You approve a dyed swatch before we cut. Embroidery adds 5–10 days on either route, a screen print 7–14. Each further round of sample changes puts the date back 8–13 days. We charge $30–80 a round from the third round on.
Hood linings and drawcords
Custom hoods come in one layer or two: the second is either cotton jersey or the body fabric again. Jersey covers the seams inside the hood and feels smooth on the hair. A hood doubled in the body fabric is the warmest and the most structured. A 400 gsm hoodie needs 120–200 g more fabric for it, $0.41–0.99 at the mills' $3.45–4.95 a kilo. We add the extra sewing to your hoodie price on the quote.
On a two-piece hood, one seam runs over the crown from forehead to nape and leaves a slight point on top. A center panel set between the two sides makes a three-piece hood, rounder at the crown and closer to the head.
Our drawcords come flat or round. They pass through metal eyelets or through eyelets embroidered into the hood fabric.
| Flat polyester cord, 3/8 inch, metal tips | $0.40 |
|---|---|
| Flat polyester cord, 5/16 inch, silicone tips | $0.24 |
| Round polyester cord, 3/16 inch, metal tips | $0.30 |
| Flat cord printed with your logo, plastic tips | $0.25 |
| Metal tip engraved with your logo | $0.12 |
| Brass eyelets, one set | $0.10 |
Sewing the cord and eyelets in is part of the hoodie price.
Zips and pockets
Ready-made zip-ups cost more. The three we priced sold for $15.25–19.35 at 50 pieces. Custom zip-ups fall in the same price range as our custom pullovers. The zip is a small share of that.
| #5 nylon coil separating zip, one-way | $0.10–0.30 |
|---|---|
| #5 brass separating zip, one-way | $0.12–0.35 |
| #5 nylon coil separating zip, two-way, which also opens from the hem | $0.40 at 3,000 pieces |
| #3 nylon zip for a pocket | $0.09–0.20 |
| Zip puller cast with your logo | $0.12–0.45, plus an $80–200 mold; 500–1,000 pieces minimum |
YKK zips are priced on your quote. We tape both edges of the opening before the zip goes in. Taped fabric can't stretch under the needle and ripple. If you'd rather hide the teeth, a placket cut from the body fabric can cover them.
Our pullovers have one pouch pocket across the front. On a zip-up it splits in two at the zip. A zipped pocket for a phone or keys can go inside the pouch. It closes with a #3 zip.
Print and embroidery positions
Front prints sit above the pouch pocket and run up to 12 inches wide and 10 tall. Our zip hoodies take a left-chest logo 3–4 inches wide, clear of the zip. Pocket prints fit within 6 by 3 inches.
We start full-back prints on adult sizes 6–7 inches below the hood seam, where the lowered hood can't cover them. They run up to 12 by 14 inches. Down-the-sleeve prints are 2.5–3.5 inches wide and 12–14 inches long, beginning 4 inches below the shoulder seam.
Your embroidered letters need to be at least 0.3 inches tall on a brushed hoodie. Lines finer than 0.05 inches disappear into the pile. A logo drawn that thin works better as a print. We price embroidery by stitch count, as on our T-shirts.
Take a 4,000-stitch left-chest logo with a one-color back print. On an order of 50, the logo costs $4–12 a hoodie and the print $0.80–2.10, screen included. US customs taxes decoration done in China along with the hoodie. The duty on this logo and print comes to $1.75–5.15 a hoodie.
US safety rules
Under 16 CFR 1610, the US flammability standard for clothing, brushed and loopback hoodie fabrics count as raised-surface textiles. Any of them with cotton in it has to pass the standard's burn test. The exemption covers only fabric made entirely of acrylic, modacrylic, nylon, olefin, polyester or wool, alone or combined. Spandex isn't on the list. Polyester knitted with spandex needs the test. CPSC names cotton and cotton-blend fleece among the fabrics it commonly finds noncompliant. Fleece made of 100% cotton is also on its list of fabrics whose burn results vary from sample to sample. For those fabrics, one test isn't enough to show they comply.
We are the importer of record on your DDP order. That makes the General Certificate of Conformity ours to issue. We have your fabric burn-tested at a lab and base the certificate on its report. Since July 8, 2026, CPSC has required the certificate data with every customs entry. We file it for you.
Kids' hoodies need a Children's Product Certificate instead, based on tests at a CPSC-accepted third-party lab. We issue it. The lab tests the trims and prints for lead. The limit is 100 ppm in the material itself and 90 ppm in paint and other surface coatings. A tracking label in the hoodie gives the place and date it was made and the batch number.
US rules ban drawstrings at the hood and neck on kids' sizes 2T to 12. We make those hoods without a cord. With the garment stretched to full width, a waist or hem drawstring on sizes 2T to 16 may stick out at most 3 inches from its channel. Toggles and knots aren't allowed on its ends. A single cord running the whole channel has to be bartacked to it.
Inspection
We check every custom hoodie at no charge before it ships and fix or remake any that fail. A ready-made batch of 50 passes when 13 hoodies picked at random show no major defect and at most one minor. We still replace that one faulty hoodie. When a batch doesn't pass, we check it piece by piece and replace every faulty hoodie. A full check of all 50 costs $0.18 a hoodie.
If a hoodie arrives with a fault, send photos within 14 days of delivery. We remake it and pay the freight, or refund it if you prefer. Replacements ship within 7–15 days. You can send your own inspector to the factory at your cost.
| What we check | Standard |
|---|---|
| Fabric and seams | Clean fabric with every seam closed |
| Chest, length, sleeve | Within 3/8 inch of your spec. On a ready-made order we measure against the factory's size chart. |
| Hood | Depth and face opening within 3/8 inch |
| Drawcord | Eyelets level and the same distance from center front |
| Zip | Lies flat, and the two sides meet evenly at the hem |
| Pouch pocket | Both openings at the same height |
| Cuffs and hem | Rib springs back after a stretch |
| Print or embroidery | Within 1/2 inch of its place in your artwork |
Quotes from a photo
A photo of the hoodie gets you a first price on both routes. The boxy zip hoodie we developed for a customer began as a reference photo. Your order comes with our free Launch Kit, made from your inspection photos.
Details for a closer price
- the fabric weight, or a US hoodie you want to match
- brushed or loopback, pullover or zip
- the hood lining and drawcord you want
- your artwork with its print or embroidery positions
- quantities by color and size
- the delivery country