Europe-first · Apparel + home-textile wedge

The export operating system for Turkish surplus apparel.

Kacmazsa is not another directory. We close compliant cross-border wholesale orders for Turkish manufacturers — surplus, cancelled-order excess, and B-grade lots — into European buyers, with an AI export agent, milestone escrow, and pre-shipment inspection built into the workflow.

The opportunity

European buyers want Türkiye. Turkish factories need orders.

EU apparel imports rose 4.8% year-on-year in Jan–Oct 2025 — yet imports from Türkiye fell 10.6% over the same period. That is not a demand problem; it is an execution gap. Turkish textile production is running at 50–60% of typical capacity. Kacmazsa closes the gap.

$16.8bn
Turkish apparel exports, 2025
İHKİB annual export report
59.6%
EU share of Turkish apparel exports
İHKİB 2025
+4.8%
EU apparel imports YoY, Jan–Oct 2025
Eurostat
−10.6%
EU imports from Türkiye, same period
Eurostat — the gap we close
The wedge

One narrow category at launch, deliberately.

Knitwear (HS 61), made-up textile articles (HS 63) — basics and home textiles. Replenishable demand, easier grading, simpler claims handling than fashion-led, automotive, or ceramics. Other strong Turkish sectors come later, once the playbook works.

Phase 1 · Live HS 61 · Knitwear

Apparel basics

T-shirts, polos, knitwear, socks, underwear, hi-vis and workwear. Knitted clothing is 54% of Turkish apparel exports by product grouping.

Phase 1 · Live HS 63 · Made-up textiles

Home textiles

Towels, bedding, sheets, kitchen textiles. Steadier than fashion-sensitive categories — surplus and cancelled-order lots from Denizli, Bursa, Gaziantep.

Phase 2 Roadmap

Furniture · ceramics · automotive parts

Strong Turkish supply, but heavier freight, breakage risk, or product-liability exposure. We expand here once apparel liquidity is proven.

Why narrow wins. Apparel basics are inspectable, gradeable, and repeat-bought. The same buyer comes back for the next overrun. We avoid trend-led fashion, food, medical, defence, chemicals, branded fashion, and electronics at MVP — too much regulation and IP risk for a verified deal desk.
The product

An AI export agent, not a chat assistant.

A transaction copilot with hard gates. Each step has a software check or a human approval — the lot does not advance until the gate passes. This is what turns Turkish surplus into a paid European order.

1

Inventory ingestion · Lot Passport

Import Excel/ERP files. Normalise SKU names, quantities, grade, defect taxonomy, carton counts, pallet dimensions, sample availability, and reason for surplus. Output: a per-lot passport that buyers can underwrite — overrun, cancelled-order, or B-grade, declared honestly.

2

Multilingual RFQ handling

Translate inbound and outbound across EN, DE, FR, ES, AR, RU. Suggest answers, surface missing questions. Turkish SMEs lose leads at the language layer before pricing — we close that gap.

3

Quote builder with margin floor

Auto-draft pro forma offers under EXW, FCA, FOB, DAP or DDP. Protect the supplier's floor price, flag FX exposure, model EUR/USD against TRY settlement.

4

Compliance & document generation

Draft commercial invoices, packing lists, shipping instructions. Prompts for A.TR, EUR.1, origin statements, and other required supporting docs. The Customs Union removes duties for industrial goods in free circulation; A.TR with QR has been accepted electronically EU-wide since July 2024.

5

Landed-cost & duty engine

Estimate duties, VAT, freight, insurance, customs clearing. Buyers want total landed cost, not factory price. The engine knows when CBAM applies — for apparel, it correctly returns "not in current scope", so we don't overbuild for the wrong complexity.

6

Inspection & logistics orchestration

Auto-book pre-shipment inspection with SGS or QIMA at 80% production complete. Compare freight quotes, track milestone events, collect document evidence. Trust becomes a process, not a promise.

7

Payout & claims workflow

Hold staged funds, release against milestones, attach inspection and shipment evidence to any dispute record. The supplier gets paid faster than open-account; the buyer gets stronger protection than ad hoc deposits.

Trust, productised

Milestone escrow. No platform balance-sheet risk.

A staged-payment waterfall that is more conservative than open-account trade, easier than a bank letter of credit (which typically costs 0.75–1.5% of transaction value), and more predictable than ad hoc deposits.

10%

Buyer reserve deposit

Locks the lot. Held by Kacmazsa's payments partner, not by the supplier. Refundable on supplier non-performance.

70%

Released after passed inspection

Pre-shipment inspection by SGS or QIMA. Shipment documents uploaded — commercial invoice, packing list, A.TR/EUR.1 where applicable.

20%

Released after receipt

Or after a short claims window expires. Claims attach to the inspection and shipment record — not to a phone call.

Asset-light, by design. Kacmazsa does not own inventory, does not own credit, and does not carry claims risk. Suppliers settle in TRY; buyers pay in EUR or USD. FX, financing and inspection are partner-led — we build the software that closes the order, not a trading house.

For Turkish manufacturers

Your export department, in software.

  • Free listing — no upfront fees.
  • The AI agent handles RFQs, quotes, documents, inspection booking, and payout — your team stays on production.
  • Settle in TRY, get paid quickly, no FX exposure.
  • Qualified European buyers only — no spam, no time-wasters.
  • Commission only when a deal closes. Recurring AI-agent subscription is the only fixed cost, and it pays for itself on the first order.
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For European buyers

Source from Türkiye without supplier uncertainty.

  • Verified Turkish factories with KYC and bank checks done.
  • Real Lot Passports — quantity, grade, defect notes, sample availability.
  • Pre-shipment inspection on first orders, escrow released against the report.
  • EUR / USD invoicing. A.TR with QR handled in-platform.
  • One channel for apparel basics and home-textile lots — minimum first-order €8k–€10k.
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Why now

Regionalisation, not reshoring — and Türkiye is the EU's nearshoring hedge.

The 2025–2026 trade story is not a clean reshoring wave. It is regionalisation, diversification, and selective friendshoring. In the European Commission's 2025 survey of firms adjusting to foreign-market tensions, 38% changed sourcing countries — rising to ~46% in industry. China's share of EU apparel imports fell from 15.1% in 2019 to 12.8% in 2024. Türkiye remained the EU's third-largest apparel supplier in 2024, sitting inside a Customs Union that removes duties on industrial goods in free circulation.

EU

Customs Union advantage

Duties and quantitative restrictions removed for industrial goods in free circulation. Electronic A.TR with QR accepted across all EU member states since July 2024.

Hard-currency invoicing

Buyers pay in EUR or USD; suppliers settle in TRY. Optional FX hedge through partners. Macro volatility absorbed by the model, not by the deal.

Workflow + Trust + Data moat

Over time, Kacmazsa learns which factories clear inspection, which defect types are acceptable per buyer segment, which lanes close fastest, which price bands convert. Hard to copy. Compounds.

Sources: İHKİB 2025 Annual Apparel Export Report · Eurostat (EU apparel imports) · European Commission Spring 2025 Forecast — Business Adjustment to Tensions Survey · Access2Markets (Customs Union, A.TR) · QIMA / SGS (pre-shipment inspection) · TÜİK (CPI). Quoted figures are point-in-time and reflect data available at publication.

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We respond within one business day. Apparel basics and home textiles, EU buyers, no inventory risk on our balance sheet.

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