UY · Origin
Source from
Uruguay.
Uruguay produces some of the world's finest merino wool, with average micron counts of 18-22um from Corriedale and Merino crossbreeds. The national SIRA traceability system tracks fleece from estancia to export. WFTO Fair Trade-certified cooperatives dominate the artisan knitwear segment. All wool is EUDR-exempt. Montevideo's free zone offers efficient LCL consolidation.
Among the finest traceable wool fibre in the world
Why here
What the origin
is actually good at.
Premium merino wool — traceable from estancia. Each line below is a property of the place — its materials, its registries, its trade position — not a promise about us.
World-finest merino: 18-22 micron average — premium price point for EU buyers
EUDR-exempt: wool is outside EUDR scope, no geo-polygon or DDS required
SIRA national traceability system tracks every fleece from estancia to export — EU-ready documentation
WFTO Fair Trade and Responsible Wool Standard certifications command premium retail margins
Montevideo Free Zone enables efficient LCL consolidation for smaller EU buyers
Source · lib/marketing/countries.ts (Uruguay) — origin properties, tariff lines, ports and transit ranges.
Where it is made
The towns,
not the country.
4 production centres, and the port they leave through — Montevideo. Sourcing from Uruguay means sourcing from these places: a mill in the wrong state is a different lead time, a different cluster and a different set of certifications. The map beside this holds each one at its real coordinates.
Borders are Natural Earth 1:50m admin-0 geometry; town positions are their real coordinates. Centres are the hubs named in lib/marketing/countries.ts and the cluster each belongs to — not a map of our suppliers, who are named inside the platform once verified.
Premium
Finer fibre,
better margin.
Fibre fineness — lower micron, higher value
Wool is outside EUDR scope, so none of this is a compliance obligation — it is provenance a buyer can sell. Every fleece is traceable from estancia to export under SIRA.
Source Micron range and SIRA traceability from lib/marketing/countries.ts (Uruguay); commodity threshold shown at 30µm as the conventional fine/coarse divide.
The lane
Montevideo to Rotterdam.
Transit is a range, not a date — schedules move, and a lane that is quoted as a single number is a lane someone is guessing about. Uruguay's spread is drawn below against the other three origins on the corridor.
→ Rotterdam · bands are the carrier-stated transit range
Source Transit ranges and origin ports from lib/marketing/countries.ts; all lanes measured to Rotterdam.
At the border
What you pay,
and for how long.
The preferential rate is not automatic: it is a claim you make at import, and it holds only if the good was made in territory under the rules of origin. Merco computes the applicable rate at order time and produces the proof.
EU–Mercosur phase-out, HS 61/62 apparel · MFN baseline 12% → preferential 0% by 2035.
Source HS lines and rates from lib/marketing/countries.ts (Uruguay); MFN baseline from EU TARIC; EU–Mercosur Agreement staging.
The rules
What EUDR asks
of this origin.
Scope is decided by the material, not the country. Where the material is in scope, the work is geolocation and a filed statement; where it is out of scope, no amount of paperwork is required and we will not sell you any.
Wool is explicitly outside EUDR scope. No geo-polygon or DDS required.
Source · Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 (EUDR), Art. 2 scope and Art. 4 operator obligations.
What it makes
Categories,
and what they carry.
The categories Uruguay exports at scale, and the certifications its mills hold. We do not publish factory names: a match is only worth anything after the mill has passed verification, and you see it inside the platform, with the evidence attached.
Categories
Certifications available
Certifications are the schemes mills in this origin operate under; a specific supplier's certificates are verified against the issuing registry before they appear on a listing.
Open Uruguay.
Tell us what you buy and where it lands. We come back with mills in Uruguay that can make it and the paperwork position for each one — or we tell you the origin is wrong for the product. No fee to join.