Bangladesh: Bangladesh secures zero rate tariff on certain textile & apparel goods made with US material
"Bangladesh secures tariff-free rate on some clothes sales to US", 10 February 2026
Bangladesh will be able to export garments made with US material to America tariff-free...
US President Donald Trump had initially set a 37 per cent blanket “reciprocal tariff” on Bangladesh in April last year, before reducing it to 20 per cent in August.
Late on Monday, Muhammad Yunus, the country’s interim leader, said that the US and Bangladesh had signed an agreement providing for a 19 per cent tariff on all exports to the US and a zero rate for some garments.
Yunus’s office said in a statement that the US had committed to a zero tariff rate for certain textile and apparel goods made in Bangladesh using US cotton and man-made fibre...
The Trump administration set a tariff rate of 18 per cent on Indian imports, down from 50 per cent last year.
This came after Trump spoke to India’s leader Narendra Modi and Washington said it had secured a pledge from New Delhi to stop buying Russian oil, which Washington says is helping to fuel Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
There was no mention of India importing US cotton in the two countries’ declarations about their trade deal...
An analyst in New Delhi said that Bangladesh’s zero per cent loophole on textile and apparel exports made with US inputs would give it a significant advantage over India...