[🇧🇩] How Is Restricting Trade and Visas to Bangladeshis Affecting India?

[Krishna with Flute]

Bangladesh used to buy at least $30 Billion yearly from India, most of that is now gone.

• Onion import banned from India,
• Sugar import banned from India,
• Jewelry import banned from India,(even via Dubai that Indians try to avoid duties)
• Light engg. products import stopped in favor of Chinese imports
• soon other items like Cotton yarn will be banned from India too as local spindle capacity and spinning mills expand capacity many fold.
• Travel and Medical tourism to India mostly stopped by Bangladeshi citizens - China (Kunming) and Thailand chosen instead.

Indian imports from Bangladesh was always piss poor, $2 Billion yearly. So no loss to Bangladesh exporters, they export all over the world. India is not special.

Now US is saying that its Ban on Indian import seems to have no effect on Indian economy, but our BD friends still believes that their agriculture import BAN will affect Indian economy. I have said this several times that our agriculture product in so much demand that we have to ban our Import. Even UN Requested India to lift the ban on Import of agriculture product. Yet, BDeshi friends continue to reiterate same thrash again and again.

 

[Krishna with Flute]

BD's trade deficit grew with India, compared to 2024 vs 2025.

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Look, What @Bilal9 say that Import is affected is also not true. Now look here. They are importing 200 railway coaches from India.

Railway to buy 200 coaches from India

Bangladesh Railway has signed an agreement with the Indian state-owned Rail India Technical and Economic Service (RITES) Limited to purchase 200 passenger coaches for the broad gauge line. The agreement was formalized at the Railway office on Monday. At the signing ceremony,...

www.dhakatribune.com

 

[Cryptonian]

Look, What @Bilal9 say that Import is affected is also not true. Now look here. They are importing 200 railway coaches from India.

Railway to buy 200 coaches from India

Bangladesh Railway has signed an agreement with the Indian state-owned Rail India Technical and Economic Service (RITES) Limited to purchase 200 passenger coaches for the broad gauge line. The agreement was formalized at the Railway office on Monday. At the signing ceremony,...

www.dhakatribune.com

BDeshi boys should cancel the order and use steele from shipbreaking dumpyard to build coaches.

 

[Bilal9]

BDeshi boys should cancel the order and use steele from shipbreaking dumpyard to build coaches.

That order was decided on during Hasina's time. Future orders will likely not go to India.

Bangladesh is not a large country like India, sometimes it is cheaper to import products than to make locally.

Now on to Cotton imports from India which is also taking the beating.

Bangladesh moves away from India, makes Brazil its top cotton source​

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Brazil has overtaken India as the largest raw cotton supplier to Bangladesh, whose economy depends on the readymade garments sector. The shift coincides with the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime in Bangladesh.​

Brazil became Bangladesh's top supplier of raw cotton with a 25% share of its imports, revealed a US Department of Agriculture report. (Image for representation: PTI)


India Today World Desk
New Delhi,UPDATED: Dec 9, 2025 19:59 IST
Written By: Gaurav Kumar

Brazil has become Bangladesh's largest source of raw cotton, ending India's long-standing dominance in one of the world's biggest textile markets. Bangladesh is the world's second-largest ready-made garment exporter after China. This shift comes in the months after the regime change in Bangladesh that saw the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. That Brazil became Bangladesh's top supplier, pipping India, was revealed in a report by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), which also spoke about the regime change in the country.

The readymade garments sector accounts for over 80% of Bangladesh's total export earnings, contributing roughly 10% to its annual GDP, according to a Reuters report in July 2025. The sector employs 4 million people, according to the report.

In the 2024-25 marketing year (August 2024-July 2025), Bangladesh imported a record 8.28 million bales of cotton. Of these, Brazil supplied 1.9 million bales (25% of the market share), while India dropped to second place with 1.4 million bales (15%), according to a US Department of Agriculture (USDA) report published in December.

Just a year earlier, India had led with 1.79 million bales and a 23% share.

The spinning industry in Bangladesh utilizes raw cotton to produce two types of yarn: cotton yarn and mixed yarn.

Total cotton imports in MY 2024/25 are 5.2% higher than the 7.8 million bales imported in MY 2023/24, according to the report.

Other major suppliers include the United States (7% share), Australia, and several West African countries, but none come close to Brazil’s new volume.

"Bangladeshi importers mainly bought Indian cotton for shorter shipment times via the Kolkata and Benapole ports, despite higher prices and some quality issues," the Daily Star reported.

Imports of raw cotton are forecast to inch up 1.4% in MY 2025-26 amid higher mill utilization.

In the current market year, the USDA expects Bangladesh to import 8.4 million bales of raw cotton, a 1.4% rise from MY25 due to stronger demand from domestic spinners.

The forecasted import level is 5.2 % above the 7.8 million bales brought in during MY24.

The USDA report noted that cotton imports stayed steady through MY25, despite initial disruptions to ready-made garment (RMG) production after the new interim government was formed in August 2024.​

The RMG sector in Bangladesh holds considerable significance within the nation's economy, serving as a key driver of economic growth and development.

 

[Cryptonian]

That order was decided on during Hasina's time. Future orders will likely not go to India.

Bangladesh is not a large country like India, sometimes it is cheaper to import products than to make locally.

Now on to Cotton imports from India which is also taking the beating.

Bangladesh moves away from India, makes Brazil its top cotton source​

​

Brazil has overtaken India as the largest raw cotton supplier to Bangladesh, whose economy depends on the readymade garments sector. The shift coincides with the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime in Bangladesh.​

Brazil became Bangladesh's top supplier of raw cotton with a 25% share of its imports, revealed a US Department of Agriculture report. (Image for representation: PTI)


India Today World Desk
New Delhi,UPDATED: Dec 9, 2025 19:59 IST
Written By: Gaurav Kumar

Brazil has become Bangladesh's largest source of raw cotton, ending India's long-standing dominance in one of the world's biggest textile markets. Bangladesh is the world's second-largest ready-made garment exporter after China. This shift comes in the months after the regime change in Bangladesh that saw the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. That Brazil became Bangladesh's top supplier, pipping India, was revealed in a report by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), which also spoke about the regime change in the country.

The readymade garments sector accounts for over 80% of Bangladesh's total export earnings, contributing roughly 10% to its annual GDP, according to a Reuters report in July 2025. The sector employs 4 million people, according to the report.

In the 2024-25 marketing year (August 2024-July 2025), Bangladesh imported a record 8.28 million bales of cotton. Of these, Brazil supplied 1.9 million bales (25% of the market share), while India dropped to second place with 1.4 million bales (15%), according to a US Department of Agriculture (USDA) report published in December.

Just a year earlier, India had led with 1.79 million bales and a 23% share.

The spinning industry in Bangladesh utilizes raw cotton to produce two types of yarn: cotton yarn and mixed yarn.

Total cotton imports in MY 2024/25 are 5.2% higher than the 7.8 million bales imported in MY 2023/24, according to the report.

Other major suppliers include the United States (7% share), Australia, and several West African countries, but none come close to Brazil’s new volume.

"Bangladeshi importers mainly bought Indian cotton for shorter shipment times via the Kolkata and Benapole ports, despite higher prices and some quality issues," the Daily Star reported.

Imports of raw cotton are forecast to inch up 1.4% in MY 2025-26 amid higher mill utilization.

In the current market year, the USDA expects Bangladesh to import 8.4 million bales of raw cotton, a 1.4% rise from MY25 due to stronger demand from domestic spinners.

The forecasted import level is 5.2 % above the 7.8 million bales brought in during MY24.

The USDA report noted that cotton imports stayed steady through MY25, despite initial disruptions to ready-made garment (RMG) production after the new interim government was formed in August 2024.​

The RMG sector in Bangladesh holds considerable significance within the nation's economy, serving as a key driver of economic growth and development.

Nothing to do with BD shifting deliberately.

It's just that India don't have much excess cotton this time for various reason.

 

[Bilal9]

Nothing to do with BD shifting deliberately.

It's just that India don't have much excess cotton this time for various reason.

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Your own media is saying this is a Geopolitical move by Bangladesh, and you are pushing this as weather-related. Wow! Let's see what happens next year...

 

[Cryptonian]

Your own media is saying this is a Geopolitical move by Bangladesh, and you are pushing this as weather-related. Wow! Let's see what happens next year...

Oh, You trust Indian media over plain statestics ??

You can check even Chinese production reduced this year due to weather.

 

[Krishna with Flute]

Oh, You trust Indian media over plain statestics ??

You can check even Chinese production reduced this year due to weather.

not Indian media. IMF report.