A day after India imposed a contemporary spherical of port restrictions on a spread of jute merchandise, officials right here justified the transfer as obligatory as a result of Bangladesh’s subsidies have been “killing” local Indian industries.
The objects listed in Monday’s (August 11, 2025) order by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) included bleached and unbleached woven materials of jute or of different textile fibre, twine cordage, rope made from jute, and sacks and luggage of jute which have a big market in India. “Imports from Bangladesh shall not be allowed from any land port on the India-Bangladesh Border. However, it is allowed only through the Nhava Sheva seaport,” the order issued by the DGFT stated.
“Bangladesh exporters were misdirecting goods under other HS (Harmonised System) codes. Export subsidies by Bangladesh government in different names were killing local industries. Anti-dumping duty was being circumvented by clubbing it with other exports at volumes well above their production capacity,” an official stated.
Monday’s (August 11, 2025) order on jute is geared toward additional tightening the import of jute, and merchandise made from Bangladeshi jute. On June 27, India banned the entry of a sure vary of jute objects by means of land ports, leaving the Nhava Sheva port in Maharashtra open for a similar objects. That determination adopted a May 17 declaration of port restriction by the DGFT focusing on readymade clothes from Bangladesh.
The order additionally banned export by Bangladesh of fruits, fruit flavoured drinks, and processed meals objects (baked items, snacks, chips, and confectionary); cotton and cotton yarn waste; plastic and PVC completed items besides pigments, dyes, plasticisers, and granules; and picket furnishings by way of the land ports of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, and Tripura. The identical items have been additionally banned from coming into India by means of the Land Customs Stations of Changrabandha and Fulbari.
Textiles and jute represent two of the most important areas of India-Bangladesh commerce, and India’s focusing on of this stuff intensified towards the backdrop of Bangladesh Chief Advisor Muhammed Yunus’s go to to China in March, throughout which he described Bangladesh because the second largest readymade garment producer after China, and invited China to make the most of Bangladesh’s enterprise potential. “Seven States of eastern India — the seven sisters —are landlocked.
They have no way to reach the ocean,” Prof. Yunus stated, pitching Bangladesh because the gateway to the area at an trade assembly through the tour. He had additionally referred to Nepal and Bhutan as landlocked, and urged higher connectivity between these nations.
The remarks drew a robust response from a number of Indian leaders, together with Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who described Prof. Yunus’s remarks as “offensive and strongly condemnable”.
