Wholesale Clothing Business In Dubai: How To Start & License Info

Before Dubai’s trendiest clothing pieces reach shopfront windows in Dubai Mall, they've already been through thousands of spreadsheet orders and boxed SKU bundles. From Ramadan capsule collections to luxury pre-season resortwear, Dubai leads a short-stay, high-turnover, season-driven fashion calendar, where wholesale clothing and accessory lines are purchased by procurement cycles, not impulse racks.

With the UAE apparel market set to reach $10.88 billion by 2025, wholesale clothing businesses fuel a city that restocks by quarter, event calendars, tourism seasons, and retailer demand cycles. Whether you're importing seasonal fashion lines for quarterly retail peaks, curating accessory multipacks for corporate event buyers, or restocking Nike team jerseys in bulk, a wholesale clothing business in Dubai is built for you if you want to serve demand that repeats, not sales that spike once

Wholesale of Clothing, Including Sports Clothes - 4641.05

This is the business behind every seasonal restock, corporate bulk order, and retail rollout.

This business activity allows you to buy, sell, import, and export apparel in bulk to other businesses, not individual consumers. It covers garments that retailers and organisations purchase in multiple cases, or pre-planned inventory cycles, including everyday wardrobe collections and performance sportswear.

Think of trading items such as:

• Casual and formal apparel like t-shirts, shirts, tops, trousers, denims, shorts, dresses, abayas, jackets, activewear, sports jerseys, training sets, and seasonal collections
• Sports and performance clothing for teams, retail chains, or event merch cycles
• Bulk clothing consignments imported or exported for regional GCC distribution

In practice, this might look like supplying bulk kaftan and cocktail-dress lines to marina-side retail boutiques, shipping team-jersey cartons before the football tournament season, delivering uniform batches for desert-tour shuttle crews, or distributing gala-ready dress and shirt consignments secured for hotel award-season retail pop-ups.

However, keep in mind that you can’t engage in the wholesale trade of jewellery, leather goods, and textile fibres. ‍

Third-Party Approval:

No third-party approval is required for this activity.‍

Anti-Money Laundering Compliance:

Business activity 4641.05 is exempt from this requirement.‍

Wholesale Of Clothing Accessories Such As Gloves, Ties And Braces - 4641.06

This business activity covers the bulk trading of clothing accessories to other businesses, not individual shoppers. It includes functional and fashion accessories typically ordered in multiples, the add-ons that retailers and buyers plan for in advance.

Think of bulk trading items such as gloves, ties, braces, belts, scarves, caps, socks, shawls, stoles, and coordinated accessory sets. Your clientele would look like multi-branch fashion boutiques, seasonal fashion stores distributing accessory line SKUs in bulk, or even hotel dress-code procurement teams.

Clothing accessories in Dubai aren’t complementary; they’re commercial. This is a market you can step into, trading what retailers already restock by default.

You could be the one supplying boxed Italian-silk tie sets for hotel concierge and valet dress codes, distributing curated accessory capsules to premium couture boutiques, providing climate-resilient glove bundles for outdoor event crew, or delivering caps, socks, and gloves bought in volume by everyday retail and lifestyle sellers.

However, you’re not allowed to engage in the wholesale trade of jewellery, leather goods, and textile fibres.

Third-Party Approval:

No third-party approval is required for this activity.‍

Anti-Money Laundering Compliance:

Business activity 4641.06 is exempt from this requirement.