Starting a Leather Wholesale Business in Dubai With Meydan Free Zone
November 28, 2025
November 28, 2025
Dubai isn’t just a city where shoppers browse luxury boutiques; it’s where leather flows through entire supply chains. Think of designer handbags in airport stops, sleek belts in menswear stores, travel luggage in hotel lobbies, and raw hides arriving at factories. Behind it all is a quiet leather wholesale network, moving pallets before a premium wallet ever meets a customer.
The UAE’s leather goods market is valued at $31.65 million alone, while the luxury goods market is estimated at over $6.3 billion in 2025. Everyday leather accessories sell at volume, and luxury leather goods command premium pricing. This means the leather market isn’t niche; it’s layered.
Whether you’re importing luxury travel luggage or sleek leather wallets for e-commerce sellers, wholesale puts you at the source of what Dubai buys.
It’s your chance to make the move behind the displays. Secure your wholesale leather products business license and supply the brands that sell leather to thousands.
Wholesale Of Leather - 4620.06
This business activity is the supply source behind Dubai’s leather production, essentially the wholesale supply of raw leather.
Under this business activity, you can trade raw hides, skins, and leather, supplying them in bulk to businesses that use leather as material for production. You can import raw hides and leather sheets, stock them in bulk, and supply them to other businesses, from factories and workshops to upholstery makers and manufacturers that turn leather into products.
This is how you build a business model where you sit at the top of the leather value chain. You could import premium leather for bag manufacturers, send leather rolls to furniture producers, or even distribute durable material for car interiors. Think of yourself as the source. Your leather material becomes the bags, furniture, and interiors the market eventually buys.
But there are limits. You can’t do wholesale of textile fibres, as it falls under another business activity.
Third-Party Approval:
No third-party approval is required for this activity.
Anti-Money Laundering Compliance:
Business activity 4620.06 is exempt from this requirement.
Wholesale Of Leather Goods And Travel Accessories - 4649.14
This business activity lets you deal in finished leather products, the items that are already made and ready to sell to customers through retail channels. In simple terms, you can import, stock, and distribute retail-ready leather goods in bulk.
Think handbags, wallets, belts, travel luggage, laptop sleeves, card holders, organisers, corporate leather gift sets, and everyday accessories that end up on display racks in stores.
Your shipments could stock Dubai Duty Free with Italian travel trolleys, fill Mall of the Emirates boutiques with handcrafted luxury handbags, cater to corporate gift suppliers grabbing premium leather sets, or even supply e-commerce platforms with everyday leather wallets people throw into their carts on payday.
This is perfect for entrepreneurs who can spot what’s selling before shoppers do and would rather supply entire retailers than compete for individual sales.
But there are boundaries: you can’t engage in the wholesale trade of blank audio or video discs, radio and broadcasting equipment, or office furniture.
Third-Party Approval:
No third-party approval is required for this activity.
Anti-Money Laundering Compliance:
Business activity 4649.14 is exempt from this requirement.
