Public opinion on India's trade restrictions towards Bangladesh is mixed. Some support India's decision as a justified response to Bangladesh's previous trade measures, while others are worried about the potential negative impact on economic ties and regional stability. Bangladesh's competitive advantage in certain sectors may mitigate the effects of these restrictions, but the intertwined economic relations highlight the complexity of the situation. The underlying tension calls for mutual respect and balanced diplomatic relations.

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Well, this is in response to Bangladesh's restriction on Indian yarn export via the land route. Tit for tat! 

But, can somebody from the Northeast explain if this affects your state's economy adversely in the short to mid-term?

AccomplishedCommon34

ApocalypseYay

cat-eater69

In fact, we should make it clear that these restrictions will remain until there is a fundamental change in the regime in BD. At a minimum, restoration of their constitution and free and fair elections held under it; and ideally, a reversal of the undemocratic ban on the Awami League. It's time we used a little bit of stick against our recalcitrant neighbours that think they can get away with anything.

ididacannonball

We got East Pakistan 2.0 before we got GTA 6

PurushNahiMahaPurush

Most of our Brands make garments there and ship back here. What about those??

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Bangladesh products sp is lower than India’s. Cost wise still Bangladesh will be cheaper than us even with tariffs

Austinto

Bangladesh still has competitive advantage. Producers will not destroy their supply chains overnight, they will most likely wait till the US midterms.

Solitary_Iceberg

The idea behind the tariff is to reduce exports, not relocate them, If exports flow from High tariff nations to low tariff nations, the tariff changes.

grrrrrrrrg

deedee2213

Which stocks will benefit ? Kitex, Arvind fashions ?

Thamarakshan_pillai

Indian clothing sector can never compete with Bangladesh as high operational cost of doing business in india.

ToothCute6156

Bangladesh products are being sold in Indian market too 🤣🤣

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Jingoism aside, what are the short term and long term consequences of this for both countries?

Cyanex_69

Under WTO rules, member states are required to allow freedom of transit for goods to and from landlocked countries. Both India and Bangladesh are signatories to these rules. 

So what happens now? Which international body enforces the trade agreements and what could the repercussions be?

ladyadaira

Doesn't bangladesh have its own port so I wonder what loss will happen

Scary-Cheesecake-610

Yunus to bangladeshi: "we will do everything to destroy the economy of Bangladesh and make bangladesh another pakistan". And chinese will come to save us from default .

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**SS:** India has withdrawn the trans-shipment facility that allowed Bangladesh to export cargo to third countries via Indian land customs stations and ports, according to an April 8 circular from the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs. Introduced in June 2020, the facility enabled Bangladesh’s trade with nations like Bhutan, Nepal, and Myanmar. The move is expected to impact Bangladesh’s third-country logistics, which relied on Indian infrastructure for streamlined access.

The decision came after repeated appeals by Indian trade bodies. The Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) urged the government to suspend the order, citing daily congestion caused by 20–30 loaded Bangladeshi trucks arriving at the Delhi Air Cargo Terminal. AEPC claimed this raised freight costs and delayed Indian shipments. The Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) supported the move, stating it would free up air cargo capacity and benefit Indian exporters in sectors like apparel, footwear, and gems and jewellery.

Under WTO rules, member states are required to allow freedom of transit for goods to and from landlocked countries. Both India and Bangladesh are signatories to these rules.

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Update:

Following India's withdrawal of transhipment facility for Bangladesh, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) today (9 April) clarified that the decision will not affect Bangladesh's exports to Nepal or Bhutan transiting through Indian territory.

"The transshipment facility extended to Bangladesh had over a period of time resulted in significant congestion at our airports and ports. Logistical delays and higher costs were hindering our own exports and creating backlogs. The facility, therefore, has been withdrawn on 8 April 2025," said official spokesperson at the MEA Randhir Jaiswal while responding to a question during the weekly briefing.

Source: https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/bangladeshs-exports-nepal-bhutan-wont-be-affected-indian-mea-1111956

Just look at the map of Bangladesh.. We are completely surrounded by India &amp; share a little border with Myanmar which is hostile towards Bangladesh... it's the hard truth.

 Do we have the luxury yet to have a bad relationship with India? No. But the relationship needs to be with mutual respect not hegemonical .

NaffyTaffyUwU

Stating the obvious IMHO

Doesn’t this apply to any other country in the world? Why would we seek out negative relationships with anyone.

banglaonline

It is to our benefit that we stay friendly with India. However India needs to treat us right. They cant keep acting like they own us or something. For that we need to show India that if they try imposing themselves on us, we can also react. Isolating ourselves from India is more of a loss than a benefit to us.

Relative_Ad8738

Good relation with India totally depend on india. 

Stop border killing.

Which_Cow_8822

darknightonyx

First of all, this account is one day old and refers Hasina as "Haseena" - this is how it is spelled in Hindi. 
Although the poster is clearly Indian, I always go by facts. India will always be our most important trading partner. India already uses transit through us, we should get transit to Nepal and Bhutan too. We can let their Northeast states use our port - that will be very beneficial in their economic prosperity and stability. We should have work visa for both countries citizens. From security point of view, we can help India to stabilize Northeast and they can help us with Myanmar. There are a lot of things we can do together but it is very hard to see a way forward with fundamentalist firmly in Indian parliament. 

As far as Pakistan goes, we trade with them like any other country. Their economy is in tatters, they won't be the boogeyman for us as India paints them to be. We should not think Pakistan as a friend, but they can be our mutual trade partner.

i_am_mr_blue

আপনি কি ইন্ডিয়া কতটা ভালো এইটা বুঝানো জন্য এই আইডি খুলসেন?

Hossain-99234

why there is 5 upvotes in this post? most importantly why this post is still existing in this sub?

uponnaspremi_7

The amount of troll indian accounts in this sub is wild.

fastgunsforlife

ayo wtf is this Indian bot doing in Bangladeshi sub?


I guess at this point it's there habit to larp around others sub and spread their propaganda

Dramatic-Effort-2271

i feel like 70% of the anti-india ppl in bangladesh dont even want to completely cut off ties with india. 

we just dont like:

1. how india uses bangladeshis as a political tool by constantly berating us ("termites")

2. the excessive border killings (indicating how disposable and lowly they think of us) 

3. how one-sided all the trade deals are

4. how ungrateful some indians on the internet act sometimes completely denying our tourists' contribution to their economy (the lack of which is clearly being felt in kolkata and to some extent chennai)

5. the yellow journalism by indian media channels regarding bangladesh

6. the exaggeration of a hindu "genocide" and "exodus". which btw im not denying i agree hindus face persecution in bangladesh, no doubt. but indians blatantly make up fake stories abt it (eg: that one story of a principal named debapriya being tied to a tree cuz she was hindu when in reality the woman tied to the tree was actually an alleged chatra league goon)

its a lot but it all falls on india to clear up its act and treat us like an actual respectable neighbor. 

and religion does not have much to do with this. just look at the disdain bangladeshis carry for countries like uae who literally FOLLOW sharia but still treat bangladeshis like crap.

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Bangladesh now 4th largest remittance source for India

Mister_KKK

Mostopha

- New account
- Literally the only 2 posts made are: why China/US/Pakistan is bad &amp; why India is good for us

Bro at least try to be a little inconspicuous

Musa-2219

This guy is a liar and contradicts himself in this comment section himself twice, already destroying his credibility in my eyes.

Your points may make sense, but it is clear you have an inherent bias on the topic being discussed. 

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Clouded_Aim

Master-Khalifa

&gt;I believe much of this rhetoric is due to their natural hatred towards hindus

There is no country exist globally that is universally despised by ALL its neighboring governments and populaces. India is hated by Hindu-majority Nepal, Buddhist Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Myanmar, Atheist China and Muslim-majority Pakistan, Maldives and Bangladesh. They may not teach this in your Whatsapp University but ponder this: when nations and peoples from vastly different cultural and ideological spectra detest you in unison, the problem is YOU.

Did you really think that incessantly repeating “we” and “our” will fool us into believing you’re Bangladeshi?

&gt;The garment industry relies heavily on Indian raw materials like cotton.

And THIS IS WHY the prospect of Bangladesh's maritime trade normalization with Pakistan terrifies Indian govt— they are acutely aware of how replaceable Indian cotton are. In fact all Indian exports are so replaceable that Bangladesh could sever all tradings with India and within half a year everything would return to normalcy in Bangladesh.

&gt; shouldn't demonize India

Then stop embodying the very archetype of a demon. If you think we’ll forget India’s complicity in the BDR massacre, arming and funding terrorists inside BD, enabling of 16 years of fascism or countless crimes before that with your empty platitudes about “economic benefits” and juvenile fearmongering- you merely proving your intellectual hollowness. Try eating food rich in Vitamin B12—it’s good for brain development.

Mammoth-Echidna9995

Ziaur Rahman helped establish the garment industry in Bangladesh

We can opt for China and depend lightly on India

livingskull1

id absolutely be alright with that if india shared the same views but they don’t

Free_Protection_2018

I absolutely agree

You should post this in SecularBangla while it has its own can of worms they will actually like your post.

Rough-Key-6667

Crazy that the sensible opinion is the unpopular opinion.

rohnytest

The thing is we dont have a choice in the matter.

India has a lot more political resources to keep us in check. 

However, if they are hell bent on not considering us as a friend but as a "slave neighbour" than we cant do much but be anti-india.

Deshimockingbird

Anyone dreaming of succeeding by being hostile are simply angry and basing their views on emotions. Emotions are fickle, emotions don't put bread on the table so I generally ignore them, more like pity them. We can't change our neighbours or change reality.

AdAlarmed9562

We cannot afford to even be a little negative towards the Indians, otherwise they'll just make themselves excuses to do a little bit of fuckery games on the border (as if they're not doing that already). India is one of our most important trading-partners, so any negativity with them will cost us money. They are the hegemon nation of South Asia, and we are surrounded by them. Can't be delusional thinking we are Mughal Bengal and we are powerful, as I see those brainless facebook posts about. Pakistan is too broken to do shit to us. Terrorism will not be because of Pakistani influence, but our own braindead people doing braindead shit because they spend too much time on Facebook.

T4H4_2004

Don't bite the hand that feeds you. All our rivers are sources from India and other places that cross through India. It's a cold hard fact. Diplomacy and tolerance is the way forward.

fuckFucketyPfizer

Halae notun acc khulse indiar dhon chosar jonno. Keu bishash korbe na e Bangladeshi

Khuro04

***Neutrality in the face of fascism is the most idiotic thing anybody can do. A fascist is not going to show you mercy. Peace will only come when we reclaim our land without that we are always going to be a slave to India. Hindutva is the most dangerous idea in Asia, we have to stop that by any means necessary.*** 



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we should maintain a positive alliance totally realizing that there are profits that we can gain from the relationship instead "oh they helped us in 71, so the floods are okay, pilkhana is okay, facilitating our ex-dictator is okay"  instead of licking india's boot, we should maintain a strictly formal relationship with them. sending them thousand tons of elish after they killed our military top order and hanged the border guards, is very bootlicking. Bangladesh will take some losses by not sending this elish but it's up to you, do you want to send those elish over the blood of so many people?

psychopath_diary

Some people in this sub are deluded to the core and think India is the only problem we have for everything. India will become a future superpower and be even more influential in the region, and although they’re no saints, we have to live along with them, as they are the strongest and most dominant country in South Asia. 

Although India’s relationship with us hasn’t been the best and faults exist on both our sides, we need to work together for the mutual benefit of both of our countries and recognise each other’s struggles. I also hope Indian media will be more understanding of our situation and listen to the full story instead of spreading misinformation. 

We can agree that Bangladesh needs India and India needs Bangladesh, no doubt, for everything from agriculture to industry we depend on each other, but India should also acknowledge the shortcomings in the relationship and where work needs to be done, like their foreign policy towards us and the border issues we have.

Impressive_Book7536

Clothing and the ‘Made in Bangladesh’ tag, name a more iconic duo.

HishamX

[For reference](https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/bangladesh-is-the-new-asian-tiger)

With the risk of not being a reductionist, the poor class in bangladesh leads a better life than one in India. But the middle class in India leads an immensely better life compared to one in Bangladesh.

no96adeptness

We have a pharma industry that is pretty much fully adequate for local needs and is entering its next phase of growth (substantially increased exports). 

We have a power industry that has literally been revolutionized in the last decade. 

We have near 100% usage of agriculture land.  
The tons of IT companies that you see these days? Possible because of the IT backbone developed 15 years ago.

And now we are promoting auto-manufacturing, appliances manufacturing, light engineering etc simultaneously.

And India skipped manufacturing? Why is Tata/Ashok a household name?

Seriously guys, we didn't diversify our export base but there has been tons of economic development which you simply cannot ignore. Don't worry about what India (or anybody else) is doing, worry about 1km around you instead.

buddybd

Zinvain

Shirts selling is poggers no cap...
Bd shirts actually so good smh

Tahmil_Khalique

My suggestion to all our Indian friends. Make shirts and pay the people who make them less

Rameen_200

Indian here, I think Bangladeshi needs to really stop looking down you guys are better than majority countries.
Also majority Indians respect Bangladesh model if growth.
So please stop self hate

Horror-Celebration-3

Noah smith is clueless about most of geopolics and gets embarrassed often in arguments. So, it's not surprising that he is clueless about india and Bangladesh too.

marcelogalllardo

And still ends up becoming poorer than Bangladesh.

METAx007

Yes India messed up little bit in recent years. But BD messed up as well. All we have is garments export and labor export. We did not come out of it.

dowopel829

A lot of misunderstanding with this tweet. 

The author isn't mocking Bangladesh. He is using Bangladesh as an example of a non-East Asian country adopting some of the development patterns of East Asian economies in the past, by focusing on manufacturing. A lot of people implicitly imply that the east-Asian development model cannot be successfully applied to non east Asian states, especially South Asia and Africa, due to cultural reasons. They may be partially right. But Bangladesh at least followed some (if not all) of the development traits of East Asian countries. The biggest difference being the lack of solid human capital investments, particularly in education. Just compare the education level of Vietnam with BD. Vietnam scores are higher than many developed countries in international mathematics and science rankings. Bangladeshi pupils can just about read and write, and that's it. Not really comparable 

If you read his op-ed, he shows how Bangladesh's development curve has been almost perfectly smooth, whereas for her neighbors, it was (still is) much more turbulent. In other words, Bangladesh is the cumulative result of decades of sustained growth, at least from the 1990s. And the manufacturing sector had a role in that. 

It's worth noting that South Korea was once known as a T-shirt making country, with labour costs even lower than Pakistan/India in the 1960s! The East Asian economic model is nothing radical, it's quite simple in principle. You start off from basic, build competency, open up your markets to the rest of the world, accumulate wealth, and go up the value chain. Easy in principle, but difficult in execution though. You need a strong, preferably technocratic government, functional institutions, and the rule of law to make it work fully. Which Bangladesh does not have. 

Bangladesh is moving up the value chain fast, but it's early days. We never had the capital or the infrastructure (especially our previously anemic energy grid) to upscale and grow factories and production. But now, things are changing. The RMG industry isn't even close to its full potential. Expect it to grow further, but also expect other industries to grow in parallel. 

For obvious reasons, India will always have a far larger industrial firepower than us, given their size. It's like comparing Russia with say, Poland or Estonia. The latter two can never compete with Russian when it comes to heavy industries like automotive, aerospace, space, infrastructure, even bio-tech. But Poland, and Estonia in particular, found their own niche which they were really good at. As a result, Estonia is far more prosperous than Russia these days. Though sanctions/oil prices had something to do with Russia's stagnation, I hope the point stands regardless. India had TATA steel as far back as the British Raj. Bangladesh was pretty much all an agricultural land that saw very little development under the Brits and Pakistan. Non-the-less, Bangladesh is industrializing big time now. We won't be able to match India in quantity/diversity even, but we can sure give them a run for their money in quality, on the few things we produced. Garments were one area, but now we're focusing on electronics, shipbuilding, steel processing. 

On the other hand, India is becoming much more closed off. It relies on heavy protectionism because her industries, as big, mighty, and diverse as they are, aren't generally competitive enough in the global market. They rely primarily on domestic consumption. Modi can have a go at that, let's see where it gets him. When all the successful economies that had emerged from the developing world, got thereby making things people around the world want to buy. 

Basically, India is not a good development model for us to follow. Yet many of us have this obsession with our dysfunctional neighbors when we can learn much more from others.

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It's funny how Indians think they are so smart and progressive compare to Bangladesh and other neighbouring countries !!! 
Well one doesn't need to look to deep to see the irony here, they (Indian) think they are doing so good in their services sectors where all they do is cheep call centers most of them are scam call centers 🤣

80% of their graduates are totally unskilled and not job worthy. 

They have millions of unemployed engineers, graduate from so called crap colleges, aprently everyone wants to be doctors and computer engineers, most of them end up as Railway Kuli/Clarks. 

People are not interested in business, there very few opportunities for small business. Only thing they are interested in is gov jobs (Nokri!!!!). 

They country is busy doing election all year long, politicians making false promises about progress and development for votes. 
Just have a casual talk with a regular Hindustani and you will understand how currupt, nish they are. 

In my opinion India is a fail sate.

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