UK · USA · Canada · Australia → Karachi
Secondhand clothing, traded on verified terms.
Ragtrail connects charity trading arms, collectors and sorting houses with KYB-verified sorting houses in Pakistan: freezone and domestic, duty-compliant, named on every document. No brokers in between.
- KYB on both sides
- Price fixed before loading
- Payment to your own account
- Documents on every container
Active lanes · indicative port-to-port transit
Carrier schedules vary. Red Sea disruption routes via the Cape
- UKFelixstoweEnglish Channel · Suez · 24 to 30 days
- USANew York / New JerseyNorth Atlantic · Suez · 30 to 38 days
- USALos Angeles / Long BeachTrans-Pacific · Malacca · 35 to 45 days
- CanadaMontrealSt Lawrence · Suez · 35 to 42 days
- CanadaVancouverNorth Pacific · Malacca · 35 to 45 days
- AustraliaMelbourneSouthern Ocean · Indian Ocean · 22 to 30 days
UK, USA, Canada and Australia, shipping CIF Karachi.
Freezone (EPZ) and domestic duty-paying, fixed before loading.
Six on the seller, six on the buyer, re-screened on every contract.
The verified buyer, on the bill of lading and the goods declaration.
Two sides of a large trade, and very little either can verify about the other.
Pakistan sorts a very large share of the world's used clothing, and the UK, US, Canadian and Australian collection systems produce far more than they can resell at home. The goods move. The trust doesn't, so it gets bought from brokers, at a price both ends pay.
Supplier side
Stock building up, and no way to know where it really goes.
Trading arms and collectors sell to whoever turns up with a lorry and a price per tonne. Payment terms stretch, weights get argued, and the end destination is a phone number. For a charity, that's a reputational exposure on top of a commercial one.
Sorter side
Supply arrives through brokers who don't carry the risk.
Duty-paying sorters compete with containers that were under-declared or diverted from bond. Quality claims go nowhere because nobody on the documents can be held to the spec. Honest buyers pay for other people's shortcuts.
Follow a container from the warehouse to re-export, in 3D.
Six origin countries, the ocean lanes into Karachi, then the local leg: port, land freight, warehousing, sorting and re-export. Click a pin or a stage to explore.
Drag to rotate, scroll to zoom, click the stages along the bottom. Open full screen
One container, five stages, one standard the whole way.
- 01 · Origin
Graded, weighed and sealed at your yard.
Stock is described against a written spec before a price is agreed. On loading day we take the evidence the buyer will rely on: an opened sample bale on video, the weighbridge ticket, and the seal number going on the door.
- 02 · KYB gate
Nothing moves until both sides clear the same gate.
The seller and the buyer are each verified to the Ragtrail KYB standard: registration, owners, authority to trade, and a bank account in their own name. The name on the contract, the bill of lading and the payment must match. If one doesn't, the box doesn't sail.
- 03 · EPZ or domestic
Freezone or domestic, declared up front and documented accordingly.
EPZ buyers import under bond and sort for re-export. Domestic buyers pay duty and sales tax at import. Both are legitimate. What isn't legitimate is a container that changes route after it lands, so the buyer type is fixed on the trade record before loading.
- 04 · Sorting floor
Opened on the sort floor against the agreed spec.
The buyer unstuffs, opens bales and compares them with the loading evidence and the spec. Any claim is raised inside the claim window, with photographs, against the specific bales. Not as a blanket discount.
- 05 · Pallets / bundles
Out as wholesale pallets or individual bundles.
Sorted output leaves as pressed bales by grade for wholesale and export, or as graded bundles for market traders. Where a charity has asked for it, we report the end-destination split back to them.
Credential, originals and mixed rags, described the same way at both ends.
| Material | As the supplier sees it | As the sorter buys it |
|---|---|---|
| Credential clothingCRED | Post-consumer wearable clothing as collected from textile banks, bag collections and shop surplus, before any grading. | The core feedstock for Pakistani sort floors. Bought on cream percentage, shoe and accessory content, and moisture. |
| OriginalsORIG | Unsorted, as-collected stock including footwear, bags and household textiles. Common from US and Canadian collectors. | Sold on a declared composition. Higher non-clothing content is priced in, not argued about after arrival. |
| Mixed ragsRAGS | Lower grades and non-wearables: the stock that can't be retailed but still has a fibre or wiping-cloth market. | For wiper, flocking and recycling lines. The spec states what share, if any, is wearable. |
A trade record only exists when both stacks are complete.
Six checks on the seller, six on the buyer, re-run on every contract. Then one rule that does most of the work: the verified buyer is the consignee, the importer of record and the payer. A broker has nowhere to stand.
Tools that go further than a phone call and a price per tonne.
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