Port restriction on jute from Bangladesh imposed to guard native industries from sub`sidised merchandise, say officers

A day after India imposed a recent spherical of port restrictions on a spread of jute merchandise, officers right here justified the transfer as obligatory as a result of Bangladesh’s subsidies have been “killing” native 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 fabricated 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’s allowed solely by way of the Nhava Sheva seaport,” the order issued by the DGFT mentioned.

“Bangladesh exporters have been misdirecting items underneath different HS (Harmonised System) codes. Export subsidies by Bangladesh authorities in several names have been killing native industries. Anti-dumping responsibility was being circumvented by clubbing it with different exports at volumes properly above their manufacturing capability,” an official mentioned.

Monday’s (August 11, 2025) order on jute is aimed toward additional tightening the import of jute, and merchandise constructed from Bangladeshi jute. On June 27, India banned the entry of a sure vary of jute objects by way of 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 concentrating 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 way of the Land Customs Stations of Changrabandha and Fulbari.

Textiles and jute represent two of the main areas of India-Bangladesh commerce, and India’s concentrating on of these things 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 reap the benefits of Bangladesh’s enterprise potential. “Seven States of jap India — the seven sisters —are landlocked.

They don’t have any technique to attain the ocean,” Prof. Yunus mentioned, pitching Bangladesh because the gateway to the area at an trade assembly in the course of 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”.