Port restriction on jute from Bangladesh imposed to protect local industries from sub`sidised merchandise, say officials

A day after India imposed a recent spherical of port restrictions on a variety of jute merchandise, officials right here justified the transfer as vital as a result of Bangladesh’s subsidies had 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 product of jute, and sacks and baggage 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 land ports, leaving the Nhava Sheva port in Maharashtra open for a similar objects. That resolution 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 had been additionally banned from getting into India by the Land Customs Stations of Changrabandha and Fulbari.

Textiles and jute represent two of the key areas of India-Bangladesh commerce, and India’s focusing on of this stuff intensified in opposition to 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 benefit from 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 business assembly through the tour. He had additionally referred to Nepal and Bhutan as landlocked, and urged better connectivity between these international locations.

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”.