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

India, a day after India implemented a new round of port restrictions on a series of jute products, the officials here justified the move as Bangladesh’s subsidy was “killing” local Indian industries.

The objects listed on Monday (August 11, 2025) included jute or other textile fibers, twilight cordes, rope made of jute, and jute bags and jute bags and unbutched woven clothes, which is a large market in India. The order issued by the DGFT said, “Imports from Bangladesh will not be allowed from any land port on the India-Bengladesh border. However, it is only allowed through NHAVA Sheva port,” the order issued by DGFT said.

An official said, “Bangladesh exporters were incorrectly doing goods under other HS (harmonized system) code. Export subsidy by the Government of Bangladesh in various names was killing local industries. Anti-dumping duty was closing it by closing with other exports above their production capacity,” an official said.

On Monday (August 11, 2025), the order on jute is aimed at importing jute and products made of Bangladeshi jute. On 27 June, India banned the entry of a certain category of jute items through land ports, opening Nhawa Sheva Port in Maharashtra for the same object. Following that decision, on 17 May, the port ban was announced by DGFT, which targeted readymade clothes from Bangladesh.

The order also banned exports by fruit Bangladesh, fruit -flavored drinks, and processed foods (baked goods, snacks, chips and confectionery); Cotton and cotton yarn waste; Plastic and PVC prepared goods except the pigments, dyes, plasticizers and granules; And wooden furniture through land ports of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura. The same goods were also banned from entering India through the land customs stations of Changrabanha and Phulbury.

Clothing and jutes forms two major areas of India-Bangladesh business, and the target of these items in India intensified against the backdrop of Bangladesh’s Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunas’s visit to China in March, during which he described Bangladesh as the second largest readymade garrmeter after China, and took advantage of the possibility of Bangladesh’s business. “Seven states of Eastern India – seven sisters –landlockd.

They have no way to reach the ocean, “Prof. Younus said, Bangladesh was picked as an entrance to the region at an industry meeting during the tour. He also referred to Nepal and Bhutan as a landlock, and urged maximum connectivity between these countries.

This comment gave a strong response to several Indian leaders, including Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who. Yunus’s comments described as “aggressive and strongly condemnable”.