Currently Bangladeshs main export items are ready made garments including knit wear and

hosiery (75% of exports revenue), jute and jute-related goods (including Carpet), leather, frozen
fish, seafood and tea. Bangladesh imports mostly petroleum product and oil, machinery and
parts, soybean and palm oil, raw cotton, iron and steel and wheat.













Import Items Export Items
A. Food Grains A. Frozen food
1. Rice 1. Fish
2. Wheat 2. Shrimps
B. Consumer goods 3. Others
1. Milk & cream B. Agricultural products
2. Spices 1. Vegetables
3. Edible oil 2. Tobacco
4. Pulses (all sorts) 3. Cut flower
5. Sugar 4. Fruits
C. Intermediate Goods 5. Tea
1. Clinker C. Manufactured products
2. Crude petroleum 1. Petrolium bi-products
3. POL 2. Chemical products
4.Oil seeds 3. Plastic products
5. Chemicals 4. Leather
6. Pharmaceutical products 5. Cotton & cotton products
7. Fertilizer 6. Raw jute
8. Dyeing and tanning materials 10. Jute goods
9. Plastics and rubber articles thereof 11. Specialised textiles
10. Raw cotton 12. Knitwear
11. Yarn 13. Woven garments
12. Textile and articles thereof 14. Home textile
13. Staple fibre 15. Footwear
14. Iron, steel & other base metals 16. Engineering products
D. Capital Goods 17. Ships, boats & floating structures
1. Capital machinery

Source: Bangladesh Bank Website, Economic Data