What Bangladesh buys, and from whom.
Bangladesh imported USD 40bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, down 20 per cent on 2022. These are its twenty largest source countries. 3 of them ship enough, across enough product lines, to have a lane page of their own.
Trade year 2024, compared with 2022.
The twenty countries Bangladesh imports most from.
A lane page is written where the source ships USD 1bn or more a year across at least 50 product lines worth USD 1m each. For what Bangladesh is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Bangladesh.
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1
China
Share of Bangladesh's imports51 per centChangedown 14 per cent on 2022USD 21bnin 2024 -
2
India
Share of Bangladesh's imports16 per centChangedown 13 per cent on 2022USD 6.2bnin 2024 -
3
Japan
Share of Bangladesh's imports3 per centChangedown 41 per cent on 2022USD 1.1bnin 2024 -
4
Morocco
Share of Bangladesh's imports3 per centChangeup 25 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 1.1bnin 2024 -
5
Taiwan
Share of Bangladesh's imports2 per centChangenew since 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 884min 2024 -
6
Indonesia
Share of Bangladesh's imports2 per centChangedown 14 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 877min 2024 -
7
South Korea
Share of Bangladesh's imports2 per centChangedown 31 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 847min 2024 -
8
Pakistan
Share of Bangladesh's imports2 per centChangedown 8 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 745min 2024 -
9
Thailand
Share of Bangladesh's imports2 per centChangedown 28 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 691min 2024 -
10
Saudi Arabia
Share of Bangladesh's imports2 per centChangedown 39 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 654min 2024 -
11
Germany
Share of Bangladesh's imports2 per centChangedown 22 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 582min 2024 -
12
United States
Share of Bangladesh's imports1 per centChangedown 49 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 547min 2024 -
13
Malaysia
Share of Bangladesh's imports1 per centChangedown 28 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 542min 2024 -
14
Italy
Share of Bangladesh's imports1 per centChangedown 45 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 378min 2024 -
15
United Kingdom
Share of Bangladesh's imports1 per centChangedown 6 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 275min 2024 -
16
Turkey
Share of Bangladesh's imports1 per centChangedown 29 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 266min 2024 -
17
Belgium
Share of Bangladesh's imports1 per centChangedown 17 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 228min 2024 -
18
Netherlands
Share of Bangladesh's imports1 per centChangedown 42 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 198min 2024 -
19
France
Share of Bangladesh's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 39 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 145min 2024 -
20
Sri Lanka
Share of Bangladesh's importsunder 1 per centChangenew since 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 126min 2024
What crossed the border, what it was worth, and what it weighed.
Every figure on this page is from CEPII's BACI file, which reconciles what each pair of countries reports to the UN about the same shipment. Trade year 2024, compared with 2022. A line is one six-digit customs heading (HS 2022). Values are in US dollars at the border; growth is in current dollars, so part of any change is price, not volume.
Unit value. Unit values are customs values per tonne, declared at the border, not product prices. It is the value of a line divided by its declared weight, so it mixes grades, models and qualities under one heading. It is shown only where the weight is recorded, at least three source countries of USD 100k or more ship the line to Bangladesh with a weight, and the figure sits within a factor of five of the middle of those sources. Outside that band it is treated as a recording problem and left out.
Share is China's part of everything Bangladesh imported in that line, from every source. Sources counts the countries that shipped any of it.
Scope. Manufactured and processed goods, customs chapters 16 to 96, without ores, fuels, precious metals, scrap, raw farm output and one-off capital and defence purchases: the same rule as the Made here pages.
A record of trade, not a shopping list.
What this record does not say: what sells at retail, what margin a trade leaves, how crowded the marketplaces are, or how much of a flow is re-exported through entrepots such as Hong Kong and Singapore.
A large line is not proof of an opening, and a lower unit value from another country is not proof the goods are the same. Tariffs, standards, freight, payment terms, lead times and the plain fact that a supplier is good at it are all invisible here. Nothing on this page is a forecast, a recommendation or a promise. No supplier company is named, because the record holds none.
Source: CEPII BACI, HS22, version 202601. Edition of 2026-11-03.