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Figure 37: Trend of Bangladesh’s Agricultural Import Sources: OIC vs. Non-OIC Members
Source: UN Comtrade retrieved through WITS
India was the most important source of agricultural imports for Bangladesh in most of the years
during the last decade. Cotton is the most important import items from India, while imports of
rice, wheat, vegetables, raw cane sugar, sugar and sugar confectionary, spice and feeding stuff
for animals showing growing trend in recent years. Again, along with geographical proximity
and improved communication and connectivity supplemented by gradual trade liberalization
between Bangladesh and India under South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) and friendly
political relationship in recent years act as the key driving forces for increased trade between
these two neighboring countries.
Table 19: Share of Top 10 Import Sources’ in Total Agricultural Import: 2005-2015, Percent
Import Sources
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2015
All Agricultural import sources
100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
Indonesia
9
11
13
19
19
16
20
20
15
15
India
13
19
19
19
8
10
11
13
13
18
Brazil
8
5
7
5
13
10
12
11
10
11
Argentina
9
7
9
8
6
7
9
8
8
7
Malaysia
11
9
6
7
5
4
4
7
9
5
Canada
2
4
7
4
7
8
4
4
7
6
Australia
5
3
2
2
5
7
2
4
5
3
United States
3
3
4
3
3
3
5
3
4
5
Uzbekistan
14
12
10
11
5
3
1
4
3
2
Singapore
0
0
0
1
2
2
1
2
4
3
Total share of top 10 import sources
74
74
78
79
73
71
68
76
77
75
Rest of Agricultural import sources
26
26
22
21
27
29
32
24
23
25
Source: UN Comtrade retrieved through WITS.
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2015
OIC member
Non-OIC