Bangladesh Import Data
South Asia's emerging manufacturing hub and the world's second-largest textile exporter. Textile-centric supply chains, rapid industrialization, and growing trade ties with China, India, and Southeast Asia fuel import markets worth over $70 billion. Get verified shipment-level information on every commodity entering Bangladesh—from raw cotton to advanced machinery.
Every Shipment. Every Field.
Each record is drawn from reliable and authentic trade records — delivering deep, field-level visibility into every import transaction entering the country.
Where Bangladesh Sources Its Imports
Bangladesh's import sourcing is dominated by China and India — together supplying nearly half of all imports — with deep manufacturing linkages especially in textiles, machinery, and consumer goods.
Major Import Industries & Categories
Bangladesh's import basket is anchored by its garment-first economy — importing vast quantities of textile inputs, machinery, and raw materials to power the world's second-largest apparel export industry.
Import data is updated monthly, aligned with official release schedules and cross-referenced with reliable trade statistics. This ensures you are always working with the most current, verified shipment-level data — not estimates, projections, or delayed aggregates.
Industrial and capital machinery — including garment manufacturing equipment, textile machinery, power generators, and factory automation systems — imported by Bangladesh's rapidly expanding manufacturing sector. Growth in this category tracks directly with FDI inflows into Bangladesh's Special Economic Zones and BEPZA-managed export processing zones in Dhaka, Chittagong, and Comilla.
Refined petroleum products — diesel, jet fuel, LPG, and furnace oil — imported to power Bangladesh's rapidly industrialising economy. Bangladesh lacks significant domestic petroleum reserves, making fuel imports a critical and price-sensitive import corridor. Singapore, UAE, and Kuwait are key energy suppliers. This trade lane is highly responsive to global oil price movements and Bangladesh government energy policy.
Steel scrap, billets, flat-rolled steel, and structural metals imported to feed Bangladesh's booming construction and shipbuilding sectors. Bangladesh is one of the world's largest ship recycling nations — and the Chittagong shipbreaking yards create a complex two-way metal flow. China and India are the dominant steel suppliers, with trade volumes closely tied to Bangladesh's infrastructure development cycle.
Industrial chemicals, plastic resins, polymers, dyestuffs, pharmaceutical APIs, and rubber compounds imported to serve Bangladesh's textiles, packaging, healthcare, and manufacturing sectors. The dyestuffs and textile chemicals sub-category is especially significant — imported from India and China — feeding directly into the RMG dyeing, printing, and finishing supply chain across Bangladesh's industrial corridors.
Crude palm oil, refined vegetable oils, wheat, sugar, and food commodities imported to feed Bangladesh's 170 million population. Malaysia and Indonesia dominate palm oil supply. India is a key wheat and sugar source. This category is highly sensitive to global commodity pricing, Bangladesh government import policy, and seasonal production cycles — making it a strategically watched trade corridor for food security planners and commodity traders.
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$70B+ Import Market
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Why Bangladesh Import Data Is Essential Intelligence
Bangladesh is a major global apparel sourcing hub — and import data provides real-time visibility into supply chains long before insights appear in market reports or published trade statistics.
Bangladesh's RMG sector is the backbone of the global fashion industry. Tracking cotton yarn and fabric imports into Bangladeshi factories gives the earliest signal of what global brands are sourcing — months before finished goods ship to retail markets in Europe and North America.
China is Bangladesh's dominant import partner — supplying yarn, fabric, machinery, electronics, chemicals, and consumer goods. The China-Bangladesh corridor is the critical data lane for anyone tracking Asian supply chain flows and manufacturing integration across the Indo-Pacific region.
Chittagong Port handles approximately 90% of Bangladesh's maritime trade — making it the most critical data window into the country's import flows. Port-level import data tracks cargo volumes, commodity mix, carrier activity, and trade patterns — essential intelligence for logistics operators, freight planners, and industrial zone managers.
Bangladesh's imports have grown over 55% in five years, driven by industrialisation, FDI inflows, and the expansion of the RMG sector into higher-value segments. Understanding which commodities are driving this growth — and which corridors are accelerating — is essential intelligence for any trade professional engaged in the South Asia region.
Got Questions? We Have Answers.
Everything you need to know about Bangladesh import data — what's in it, where it comes from, how to access it, and who uses it most.
Cotton, yarn, and textile raw materials (HS 50–63) lead at ~20% — driven entirely by the RMG sector's need for imported fabric and accessories. Machinery (HS 84) follows at ~15% as factories upgrade and expand. Petroleum products (HS 27) at ~12% power Bangladesh's energy-hungry industrial sector. Together these three categories account for nearly half of all Bangladesh import value.
China is Bangladesh's dominant import partner at approximately 35% — supplying yarn, fabrics, machinery, electronics, and consumer goods. India ranks second at ~14.8%, leveraging geographic proximity to supply cotton yarn, fabrics, food commodities, and chemicals via both sea and land border routes. Singapore (6.1%), Japan (4.1%), and Malaysia (3.9%) round out the top five.
Each record includes: importer name and address, overseas supplier name and country, HS code (8-digit), full product description as declared at Bangladesh customs, quantity and unit, declared CIF value in USD, port of entry (Chittagong, Mongla, Dhaka Air Cargo, Benapole, or other land ports), country of origin, shipment date, and transport mode — complete visibility into every trade event entering Bangladesh.
Import data is updated monthly, aligned with official release schedules and cross-referenced with reliable trade statistics. This ensures you are always working with the most current, verified shipment-level data — not estimates, projections, or delayed aggregates.
Yes — this is one of the most powerful use cases. Because records include the full name of the importing entity (typically the factory or its buying agent), you can identify exactly which garment factories, spinning mills, or industrial firms are importing specific raw materials, from which suppliers, at what volumes and prices — at a granularity not available in any published trade report or government statistic.
Data is delivered directly to your inbox in Excel (.xlsx) or CSV format within 24 hours of your request. All files are clean, structured, and ready for any BI platform, CRM, or analytical workflow without reformatting. API access with real-time integration is available for enterprise clients. All extracts can be customised by HS code, date range, country of origin, importer name, or port of entry.
Yarn, fabric, and trims suppliers use it to identify Bangladeshi garment factory buyers and build prospect lists. Supply chain and sourcing teams use it to monitor supplier relationships and benchmark CIF prices. Market research firms build Bangladesh market entry analyses. Freight forwarders track Chittagong port activity and cargo patterns. Compliance teams screen trading partners and verify country-of-origin claims across the RMG supply chain.
Yes — historical Bangladesh import data spanning multiple years is available for long-term trend analysis, year-on-year volume comparisons, and understanding how Bangladesh's sourcing patterns have evolved. Historical depth is particularly valuable for tracking seasonal RMG production cycles, monitoring how China's share has shifted, and benchmarking competitive positioning across textile raw material categories.
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