Trade and tariff analytics
2026-04-25
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Bangladesh ready-made garments under 2026 tariff stress
Bangladesh's ready-made garment sector enters 2026 carrying three simultaneous shocks. The US tariff schedule has hardened, EU EBA preferences are on a graduation timer, and forced-labor enforcement is migrating from policy text to seizure data. The interesting question is which factor cohorts survive intact and which lose orders to Vietnam, India, and Cambodia.
Bangladesh exported approximately 38.4 billion dollars in HS 61 (knitted apparel) and HS 62 (woven apparel) combined in 2024 per BACI and BGMEA reconciled data, second only to China among apparel suppliers and roughly 11.5 percent of global apparel trade. The United States and the European Union together absorbed about 70 percent of those...