
ecowell
Face, body and hair care built on cold-pressed plant bases at an Izmir factory our sourcing team has audited.
Private label from 3,000 units
Istanbul HQ · sourcing, contracts, freight
R-TradeIstanbul trade desk
Name your sphere and we will send the Turkish factories we have audited on site, with product ranges, terms and contacts.
more than0directions of manufacturers
0suppliers in the catalogue
About the company
R-Trade is a foreign-trade operator based in Istanbul. Behind the company are 20+ years of combined expertise in sourcing, customs clearance and freight, and one team that carries a deal from the first product name to the unloaded pallet.
The model is not a brokerage. The supply contract is signed in your name, so you buy at factory prices with no reseller margin on top, and a single manager stays on the deal from the first quotation to the closing documents.
That work covers 78 audited factories and 160+ product categories, around 50 supply contracts a year, in both directions: export from Turkey, import into Turkey, and the route through the USA.

Full cycle, one desk
Export from Turkey and import to Turkey run from one office in Istanbul: sourcing, contract, payment abroad, freight, customs, delivery. Below is the working scale of that desk.
Figures cover the current trading year and are updated as contracts close.
Sourcing from Turkey
The aggregator is our working catalogue of Turkish manufacturers: 78 factories our team has visited, audited and priced in person.
Every entry carries what the plant actually produces, current export prices, minimum order quantities and lead times. Seven manufacturing directions and 14 industries, narrowed down to the few factories that can hold your specification.
It is built for importers who want the manufacturer, not a middleman. Pick a supplier and we run the rest of the deal: contract, payment abroad, freight, customs clearance and delivery to your warehouse.

R-Trade
78 factories

Metallurgy
Copper and aluminium alloys since 1981. Rolled sheet, bar and profile for electrical and automotive assembly, with a mill test report on every lot…

Chemical industry
Evol Kimya has been formulating protective and decorative coatings for concrete, wood and steel for 25 years. Export packing from 20 kg…

Agriculture
Flour milling equipment built in Istanbul since 1985. Roller mills, purifiers and complete turnkey lines, commissioned by their own engineers…

Industrial equipment
Crushing, screening and concrete plants shipped to 70 countries. Mobile and stationary lines assembled to the capacity you specify…
Energy sector
Lubricants and industrial oils since 1974. Engine, hydraulic and gear oils blended to API and ACEA grades, in drums or IBC…

Paper and packaging
HDPE canisters, bottles and vented screw caps moulded in Konya. Separate food grade and chemical grade lines, private moulds on request…

Plastics and rubber
PVC door and window profiles extruded in the Ataturk industrial zone in Izmir since 2002. Lamination and colour matching in house…
Why R-Trade
Sourcing, contract, payment abroad, freight, customs and the warehouse door are stages of one job. We keep every stage inside a single Istanbul office, so nothing is handed between companies while your cargo is on the move.
0industries served from the Istanbul office, from textiles to construction chemicals
We contract the plant that makes your product, so the quote carries a factory margin and nothing stacked on top of it.
0factories quoting us direct
Every offer names the plant, the line and the lead time, so you can check the price against the manufacturer yourself.
Our Turkish entity pays the supplier on the spot and invoices you under a single foreign-trade contract.
0+supply contracts settled a year
Contract, invoice and currency control stay in Turkey. You transfer once and receive one closing package for accounting.
An inspector goes to the line, opens the cartons and signs the batch off while you can still refuse it.
0manufacturing directions inspected on site
Photo and video from the shop floor plus a signed inspection act reach you before the goods are loaded.
Sea, road or air, export papers and clearance on both borders sit in the same agreement and the same invoice.
0+product categories cleared and delivered
One document chain runs from the factory gate to your warehouse, with customs codes agreed before the truck moves.
The person who quotes you also books the truck and answers when the broker calls from the border.
0+years of foreign-trade practice
Direct phone and messenger contact, a weekly status on every open shipment, no ticket queue between you and the answer.
Freight, customs and delivery
0audited Turkish factories ready to load
We answer with a route, a transit estimate and a landed cost for the direction you picked.

Company services
Turnkey here means the literal thing: sourcing, contract, payment abroad, freight, customs and warehouse are six blocks of work carried by one desk in Istanbul, under one agreement, with one manager answering for the result.
We shortlist Turkish plants that genuinely make your product, then go and look at them before you commit to anything.
78audited factories on file
The deal is written down before money moves: scope, Incoterms, quality and penalty clauses, then a clean transfer to Turkey.
Booking, loading supervision and a schedule fixed before the cargo leaves the plant.
Declarations and HS codes on both sides of the border, with product certification where the code demands it.
Cargo from several plants is collected in one Istanbul warehouse and leaves as a single load, on one set of papers.
Invoice, packing list, CoO and ATR — the closing set your bank and your customs officer accept first time.
One deal, six blocks of work
Free landed-cost calculation
Tell us what you buy and in what volume. Within one business day you get a shortlist of audited Turkish factories, a price with freight, customs and delivery already inside it, and a transit time you can put into a plan. The calculation is free and carries no obligation to order.
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Product catalogues
Five catalogues out of the 160+ product categories we source in Turkey. Ask for any of them and a manager comes back with the full range, prices, MOQ and lead times.
Route of the deal
One contract and one point of responsibility: sourcing, payment abroad, freight, customs and delivery. Five stations from the first request to the closing documents.
You choose the product. R-Trade carries the deal from the supplier search to the pallet standing in your warehouse.
Product, volume and target price. We come back within one working day with the scope of work.
Audited factories from our base of 78, with a pre-calculation of the landed cost.
Foreign-trade contract, currency control and payment to the factory on your behalf.
Freight booking, insurance and customs clearance with the full document set.
Goods arrive at your address, closing documents and the deal file come with them.
Istanbul office, 20+ years of combined expertise
Choose a day and a time that suit you. A consultant from the Istanbul office will walk you through the route, the supplier shortlist and the costs of your deal.
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FAQ
Seven questions importers ask us before the first shipment, answered the way the deal actually runs. Every answer ends in a document you receive, and the file on the left opens on it.
You sign one foreign-trade contract with R-Trade, and we hold a separate supply contract with the plant. So you deal with a single counterparty in Istanbul instead of a factory that has never exported to your country. Specification, tolerances, packing, lead time and the penalty for a late shipment are written down before any money moves.
In your deal file: Foreign-trade contract
You pay R-Trade under the contract and we pay the plant in Turkey on your behalf, together with the currency control and the bank file that go with it. The usual split is an advance against a confirmed proforma and the balance against shipping documents, so your money is never sitting fully prepaid against goods that do not exist yet.
In your deal file: Payment order
Our average is 12 days from an accepted request to loading at the factory. Transit adds roughly 4 to 8 days by road to the nearest European border, or 18 to 25 days by sea to a distant port. In practice the production season, certification and the customs regime for your commodity code shift the date far more than the freight leg does.
In your deal file: Shipping schedule
Nothing leaves the plant without a pre-shipment inspection: we check the batch against the agreed specification and photograph the loading. A batch that fails does not ship, and rework or replacement is on the supplier under the contract. All 78 factories in our base were audited before they were allowed into a single deal.
In your deal file: Inspection report
The full set: contract with specification, invoice and packing list, CMR or bill of lading, certificate of origin, quality certificates and the customs declaration after clearance. We declare the cargo ourselves and hand the closing documents over with it, so your accountant receives one complete deal file rather than scattered scans.
In your deal file: Customs declaration
We do not set a floor of our own. The plant does, and it usually runs from one pallet to one truck depending on the product. For small volumes we consolidate several buyers into one truck so the freight per unit stays reasonable, and across 160+ product categories there is normally a factory that will work at your volume.
In your deal file: Order sheet
Either one agency fee agreed before the deal starts, or a margin already inside the price you approve. You choose the model and nothing is added later. Search, negotiation and the landed-cost pre-calculation cost you nothing: you see the factory price, freight, duty and our fee as separate lines before you commit to anything.
In your deal file: Cost breakdown
Nothing here matches your case? Send the product and the volume, and we come back with a shortlist of plants and a landed-cost estimate.
Channels
Two channels, one Istanbul desk
No brand feed and no reposts. The people who quote your order write what moved the market that week, and answer in the same thread.
Desk hours09:00 — 19:00, Istanbul, UTC+3
Desk log
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01Telegram, every working daylive
t.me /Donquixote_1_Rosinante
Market notes from Istanbul: lira moves, freight and container slots, factories audited into the catalogue this week.
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02Written desk, one to onelive
mail /ruslan@investcare-vet.com
Your case in writing: supplier shortlist, landed price with freight, contract draft and the payment route abroad.
Write to the desk
03Instagram, in preparationsoon
instagram /rtrade.istanbul
The visual side of the same deals: factory floors, loading bays, container seals on the Istanbul — Mersin leg.
Opens with the next catalogue drop
The desk log is a sample of a working week in the channel. Figures cover the current trading year.