Cut-and-sew dress shirts, work shirts, woven uniforms, and woven outerwear from a vetted CAFTA-DR partner. U.S. duty-free entry, three-day ocean freight to Houston, and a single production dashboard.
This Honduras partner runs woven shirt and uniform programs at industrial volume — the kind of book-of-business that uniform majors and heritage workwear brands sit on. The minimum to make a line economical is 8,000 units per month sustained. That's a real floor, not a soft target.
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If you're earlier in the curve, our China, Peru, or Vietnam pages cover partners with lower volume floors.
Founded in 1920. Two facilities — one in Choloma, Cortés (the country's industrial corridor near Puerto Cortés), and one in Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán. Two thousand associates between them. Built specifically around woven shirts and uniforms, with automation tuned for collars, cuffs, plackets, and pockets.
Most factories run one model — book the season, hope demand matches the buy. This partner runs four, depending on what your program actually needs. We'll match your SKU velocity to the right model when we onboard you.
01 — Replenishment. Buy plan per season. Fabric ordered against projections and size breakdowns. Standard model for brands with predictable seasonal demand and a defined SKU roadmap.
02 — Stock fabric. Factory holds three months of fabric inventory at any time, specified by the brand. Best for never-out-of-stock core programs and uniform contracts where stockouts are operationally unacceptable.
03 — Chase orders. Unprojected demand. In-house fabric or quick purchase. Two- to three-week lead time after fabric receipt; air or ocean delivery in three to seven days. Built for brands with retail partners that pull faster than projected.
04 — Made-to-measure. Customer places individual orders; processed at the factory the next day. Eight-day lead time, shipped by air direct to the customer. Built for customization-driven brands and corporate uniform programs with personalization.
Through 2025 and into 2026, brands moved real volume out of China — Section 301 actions, IEEPA orders, fentanyl-tariff overlays, and the looming USMCA review have made Asia-centric sourcing structurally unstable. For an established brand running 100K+ woven units a year, that's not an academic problem. It's a landed-cost line item that's gotten materially worse, with no political off-ramp in sight.
Honduras isn't an exemption that might disappear. It's a codified, treaty-level preference under CAFTA-DR. The yarn-forward rule of origin requires yarn spinning, fabric forming, and apparel assembly to occur in the U.S. or within CAFTA-DR. Garments meeting it enter the U.S. at zero duty. For fabrics not regionally available, Annex 3.25 — the Short Supply List — preserves duty-free entry while allowing global sourcing of the specific input.
For established brands, the practical question isn't whether to evaluate CAFTA-DR — it's whether you have a partner who can actually onboard your woven program at production scale without a 9-month transition. Our full CAFTA-DR primer walks through the BOM audit, documentation, and rules-of-origin compliance.
The structural picture:
Sources: OTEXA, NCTO, Just-Style trade reporting.
Country choice for an established program is a portfolio decision — most brands at scale split production across two or three regions to manage tariff, lead-time, and capacity risk. Here's where each network location actually wins.
The Honduras program isn't the easiest entry point in our network — it's the most operationally efficient destination once your woven volume is real.
Established brands don't need MakeMine to introduce them to a factory. What you need is someone running the program day-to-day so your internal team isn't the bottleneck on every BOM revision, lab dip approval, and PO handoff.
Tech pack and sampling. We translate your specs into a factory-ready BOM, manage sampling rounds, and run lab dips, fit, and pre-production approvals on your behalf — with the factory's product development team, not against it. For a brand running 30–80 SKUs in the program, that's the difference between a production manager who has bandwidth for strategic work and one who's drowning in WhatsApp threads.
Sourcing and compliance. Yarn-forward audit. CAFTA-DR rules-of-origin documentation. CPSIA compliance for childrenswear. Fabric and trim sourcing — U.S., regional, or Annex 3.25 short-supply — depending on what the program needs.
Production and QC. PO management, in-line QC, final inspection, AQL reporting, and freight booking. Issues escalated by the same people who placed the order — not handed off across three time zones. For brands moving from a sourcing-agent relationship, this is usually the largest single operational improvement.
Production dashboard. Every active PO, every milestone, every approval, every issue — in one view. Read access on every event in your production timeline. Built so your VP of Operations can answer the "where are we" question without three Slack threads and a transatlantic phone call.
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