India imposes land and seaport restrictions on Jute from Bangladesh

Weeks after the imposition of limitations of land ports on the export of clothing from Bangladesh, India has commissioned Jute from Bangladesh, not allowed to enter India via land ports on the border between India-Bangladesh. A report for this was issued on Friday (27 June 2025) by the Directorate General of the Foreign Trade in which it is informed that the restrictions will apply “across all land and seaports” with the exception of the Nhava Sheva Seaport in Mumbai.

Official sources said that the port restrictions on “jute and allied fibers/products from Bangladesh” have been implemented with immediate effect. “Jute from Bangladesh enjoys tax -free access to India. However, the Indian jute industry has a long time ago due to the disadvantageous impact of dumped and subsidized import of jute products – in particular yarn, fibers and bags – from Bangladesh,” said an official source that explained the reason behind the impos. India had imposed anti-dumping rights (ADD) on Jute from Bangladesh, but that did not reduce the import of the jute from Bangladesh because of continuous subsidies by the Government of Bangladesh, the sources said.

Sources further said that India has expressed his concern about Jute for the authorities in Dhaka, but Bangladesh has only made “nominal adjustments” and continues to stimulate exports, in particular in cases of “with added value jute products”. Jute is produced in West Bengal, Bihar, Assam, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Tripura and Meghalaya and Jute industry have around four Lakh employees in organized mills and diversified units. “Artificially depressive prices caused by subsidized imports have had a direct and negative impact on the income of Jute -Boeren.”

The order of Friday includes flax lee and waste (including yarn waste and grenade stock), jute and other textile bast fibers, only yarn of jute or other textile bast fibers, woven fabrics or flax, bleached woven fabrics from jute or other textile bast fibers. The order has no influence on the export from Bangladesh to Nepal and Bhutan, but again exporting the same from Nepal and Bhutan to India will not be allowed.

On May 17, India stopped the accession of clothing from Bangladesh via its land ports. The same order also stopped entering certain specified products from Bangladesh to Noordoost -India through the land ports between Bangladesh and Noordoost -Indian border.

“Bangladesh should not continue to exist with unfair commercial practices that harm the livelihood of Indian farmers and mill workers in a sector that forms the economic backbone on dependent rural regions. The access to the market that is extended in good confidence cannot be taken to the disadvantage of the decisions of the decisions of the decoration,” ” Jute van Jute van het Braoge. India is of the opinion that the inflow of cheap, subsidized imports from Bangladesh has printed depressive prices, has damaged farmers’ income and led to under -utilized capacity in Indian jute mills that have led to unemployment.

The Hindu was told that India will ensure that Bangladesh will not have access to the Jute market of India via third countries, which bypasses the restrictions.