Underwear Supplier for Lima Buyers: OEM Sourcing from China

Peru is a textile-producing country with its own cotton and alpaca industry, and that shapes how an imported underwear programme is positioned: imported basics compete on price and consistency against a strong domestic cotton sector, while premium and technical lines compete on fabric. Unitex Underwear (Xiamen Unitex Trade Co., Ltd.) is a China-based underwear supplier working through long-term BSCI-audited partner factories in the Fujian knitwear corridor — men’s, women’s and kids’ knitted underwear, MOQ 2,000 pcs per style and colour, FOB Xiamen.

Peru’s Market: Strong Domestic Cotton, Imported Basics on Price

Peru is unusual in Latin America in having a substantial domestic textile industry built on Pima and Tangüis cotton and on alpaca. Domestic mills serve the mid and premium segments, and a Lima importer is therefore usually competing on either price in the mass segment or on fabric and construction in the branded segment. That changes what to ask a supplier for. In the mass segment the conversation is about consistency of the base fabric, shrinkage control and a stable shade across repeat runs. In the branded segment it is about fabric weight, spandex content and finishing.

Lima’s trade is concentrated in the Gamarra district, one of the largest apparel wholesale clusters in South America, alongside department-store programmes and a growing online segment. A Gamarra buyer typically works in shorter runs than a European importer and reorders faster, which makes the trial quantity more important than the headline minimum. Selected styles can be trialled from 1,000 pieces per style and colour against the standard 2,000-piece minimum, and that is usually the right way to open a Peruvian programme.

Labels in Spanish: What the Andean Community Requires

Peru applies the Andean Community technical labelling regulations, and the practical effect for apparel is that the mandatory labelling information must be conveyed in Spanish, although additional languages, symbols or pictograms may appear alongside it. The information must be permanent, legible, visible and easy for the consumer to check, and it can be spread across one or more labels. Where the product is manufactured in one country using materials from another, the origin statement has to reflect that. Labels cannot be corrected by over-printing the required information after the fact, which means the artwork has to be right at production.

Peruvian consumer protection law reinforces the same point from a different direction: information supplied to consumers must be accurate, and misleading fibre composition is a specific ground for sanctions. In practice the label should carry fibre composition by percentage, care instructions, size, country of origin and the identity of the importer or the manufacturer. Because garments need a permanent label sewn in, the label belongs in the production specification rather than in a post-arrival operation.

Xiamen to Lima: The Callao Route and the Duty Picture

There is no direct flight between Xiamen and Lima. Common routings are one-stop through Paris — Xiamen–Paris is a direct Xiamen Airlines service — or through Los Angeles, Madrid or Panama City, with total airport-to-airport time of twenty-four to thirty hours. Air freight is for samples and urgent replenishment.

Sea freight lands at Callao, the port serving Lima, and to a lesser extent at Paita in the north. From Chinese origins, transit is typically in the region of thirty to forty days port to port depending on the routing and number of calls, and door to door to Lima with Peruvian customs clearance and inland delivery, plan forty-five to fifty-five days. Transshipment through a hub such as Busan, Manzanillo or Panama is common, and each connection adds risk of a missed feeder, so a delivery-critical shipment benefits from a routing with a shorter connection rather than the cheapest sailing.

On cost: Peruvian ad valorem duties for apparel have historically sat at the higher end of the tariff schedule, with textiles and footwear among the categories attracting the top rate band, and value added tax applies on the duty-paid value. Peru also applies anti-dumping measures on certain Chinese textile inputs — measures have covered polyester staple fibre and, historically, zip fasteners and their components — so before you build a costing model, confirm with your broker whether any measure touches your specific commodity code. This is a genuine risk area for Chinese-origin textile products into Peru, and it is better checked at quotation than discovered at the port.

Peru also has a free trade agreement with China in force since 2010, which reduces or eliminates duty on many lines against a valid certificate of origin. Whether your garment qualifies depends on the rules of origin and on the specific classification, so ask your broker to confirm both the rate and the origin criteria before you price.

What We Do, and What We Do Not Do

Unitex is a sourcing and supply-chain management company working with long-term partner factories in the Fujian knitwear corridor. We handle development, fabric and trim sourcing, order placement, production follow-up, AQL 2.5 inline and final inspection, and export documentation, and we sew the Spanish-language label to your artwork at production. We do not own factories. Our compliance evidence is amfori BSCI audits at the partner sites and OEKO-TEX Standard 100 certification for the materials on your order, with certificate numbers shared at quotation.

We do not act as your Peruvian importer, hold stock in Lima, or issue the certificate of origin — that is issued by an authorised Chinese body and we arrange it as part of the export documentation. The Peruvian import entry, the customs broker and any local warehousing sit with your own team.

Sourcing Specifications at a Glance

Company	Xiamen Unitex Trade Co., Ltd. (厦门甲冠麒贸易有限公司) — sourcing and supply-chain management company, incorporated 2013; in the underwear trade since 2009
Location	Xiamen, Fujian Province, China — Jimei District, Xinglinwan Business Operation Center
Production base	Long-term partner factories across the Xiamen–Quanzhou–Jinjiang knitwear corridor; our own liaison office inside the Jinjiang factory district since 2013
Categories	Men’s / women’s / kids’ knitted underwear, plus size to 5XL, thermal and baselayers, pajamas and sleepwear, sport bras
MOQ	2,000 pcs per style and colour (trial orders from 1,000 pcs on selected styles)
Sampling	7–10 days for counter samples; 12–18 days for fully custom development
Bulk lead	45–60 days after pre-production sample approval
Compliance	BSCI-audited partner factories; OEKO-TEX® Standard 100 certified materials; certificate numbers for the production sites on your order shared at quotation
QC	AQL 2.5 inline and final inspection on every order; shrinkage and spirality tested before bulk cutting; third-party inspection (SGS, Intertek, TÜV) welcome
Port & terms	Xiamen Port — FOB Xiamen standard (EXW Xiamen for Russia/CIS); CIF, CNF or DDP on request
Payment	30% T/T deposit, 70% against copy of B/L; L/C at sight for larger programmes

How to Start a Programme from Lima

1. Send your design brief, spec sheet or reference sample — we review and respond within 48 hours
2. Receive fabric swatches, waistband options and a quotation within 3–5 business days
3. Approve counter samples (7–10 days) or full custom development samples (12–18 days)
4. Pre-production sample locks the measurement chart, then bulk runs 45–60 days with AQL 2.5 inline and final inspection
5. Shipment from Xiamen Port on your chosen term, with export documentation handled by our team

Contact us for a free quotation →

Prefer a third-party reference before you write? Our company profile and product showroom are public on Made-in-China.com, and our export shipping records are independently listed on Panjiva. Contact: [email protected] · WhatsApp +86 186 5081 3853.

Other Markets We Cover

This guide is one of a series written for buyers in different markets. The others cover London · Paris · Barcelona · Rome · Frankfurt · Amsterdam · Stockholm · Athens · Moscow · St Petersburg · New York · Santiago de Chile · Mexico City · Sydney · Melbourne · Italy · the Netherlands · the Nordics · Mexico · the UAE · Canada — each page sets out what that market’s import rules, duty and shipping routes mean for an underwear programme sourced from China.

If you are still weighing up whether to buy through a sourcing company at all, start with the China underwear supplier hub, which sets out how a sourcing company differs from a single factory and what that changes for your programme. Buyers already based in China — Shenzhen, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Hong Kong, Ningbo, Yiwu or Xiamen — are covered by a separate set of city guides linked from the hub.

Disponible en español: Proveedor de ropa interior en Lima.

Published: 2026-10-04 · Xiamen Unitex Trade Co., Ltd. — OEM & ODM underwear sourcing partner

Unitex Underwear (Xiamen Unitex Trade Co., Ltd.) — OEM/ODM underwear sourcing and supply-chain partner in Xiamen, China; in the trade since 2009, incorporated in 2013. Based in the Xiamen–Quanzhou–Jinjiang knitwear cluster, Fujian Province, south-east China.