We are a trading house, not a network of overseas branches. Everything is run from a single registered office in Andheri — and from there we source from, sell into and ship through thirteen markets, on relationships that in most cases long predate the current order.
Cotton is grown where the climate permits. It is spun where there is capacity, knitted or woven where there is machinery, cut and sewn where there is skilled labour, and sold where there are buyers. Four countries, four sets of customs rules, and often three currencies — for a single shirt.
That is the ordinary condition of this industry rather than an exception to it. A trading house earns its keep by knowing the routes: which origin is competitive this season, which mill has capacity open next month, which document a particular customs authority will actually accept, and whom to telephone when a consignment has to move.
We do that work from one office in Mumbai. There are no overseas branches, warehouses or agency networks behind this page, and we do not claim any. What stands behind it are long-standing relationships with spinners, mills, converters and buyers — and a willingness to take the call at whichever hour the other market happens to be awake.
Some of these are origins, some are destinations, and several are both, depending on the product and the season. India is where the company is registered and where every enquiry, without exception, is handled.
A word on what this list is not. These are markets we trade in — not places where we keep an office, a warehouse or staff of our own. Mumbai is the only address we have, and it is the one you will be dealing with.
It helps to understand what each part of the world is actually good at. The notes below describe the region's role in the textile trade generally — the reason it is worth knowing at all.
India · Bangladesh · Pakistan. The supply heart of the industry. Between them these three hold a very large share of the world's spinning and weaving capacity, and Bangladesh has built a garmenting base that few countries can match for scale. India is also where we sit, which shortens most conversations considerably.
China · South Korea · Vietnam. Man-made fibre and the engineering behind it. China and Korea remain central to polyester, viscose and technical yarn production, while Vietnam has grown into one of the largest garment manufacturing bases anywhere. This is a region to read for capability, not only for price.
Germany · Italy · Portugal. Demanding markets and demanding buyers. Italy and Portugal retain finishing, dyeing and short-run manufacturing expertise that is genuinely hard to replicate elsewhere; German buyers order to specification and expect the specification to be met. Standards set here tend to travel outward.
Egypt. Extra-long staple cotton with a reputation earned over more than a century, and a garment manufacturing base that the country has been steadily rebuilding alongside it. For fine-count and premium programmes, Egypt remains a serious origin to consider.
Brazil · Peru. Brazil is among the world's larger cotton producers and exporters, and matters to anyone watching fibre prices. Peru is a different proposition altogether — smaller volumes, but pima cotton and alpaca with a following among brands that will pay for hand and provenance.
Most delays at a port begin life as a discrepancy on a document. These are the points we settle in writing, with both sides, before anything is loaded.
Terms are agreed on each contract individually — EXW, FOB, CFR, CIF or another basis — so that the point at which risk, cost and insurance pass is never a matter of interpretation afterwards.
Bookings arranged with the line or forwarder suited to the lane and the cargo, with routing and vessel confirmed to you rather than assumed on your behalf.
Commercial invoice, packing list, bill of lading, certificate of origin and whatever else the destination calls for — prepared to match the contract exactly, down to the description of goods.
Working alongside clearing agents at both ends, with attention to the declarations, certifications and duty positions that apply to those particular goods in that particular market.
Goods checked against the agreed standard before they are loaded, not after they have landed. A rejection is very much cheaper at the mill gate than at the discharge port.
Documents released, tracking passed on, and the same named person still answering the telephone until the consignment has cleared and been accepted at the other end.
Somani Impex Pvt. Ltd. was incorporated in Mumbai on 6 July 1989. We are a sourcing, trading and marketing organisation rather than a manufacturer, which means our working day is spent between our suppliers' mills and our customers' offices — and our own address stays the same.
Somani Impex Pvt. Ltd.
310 Morya Estate, 3rd Floor,
New Link Road, Andheri (West),
Mumbai 400 053, Maharashtra, India
CIN U51900MH1989PTC052491
Incorporated 6 July 1989
Enquiries from every market on this page reach the same desk. Whichever channel you use, you will be dealing with people who know the material and remain accountable once the order has been placed.
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Send us the specification, the quantity and the destination port. We will tell you which origins are worth considering, what the material should cost, and where the practical difficulties are likely to sit.