An Analysis Of India's Export Basket To Bangladesh

Abstract

Bangladesh is one of the most important export markets for India. For the past several decades it has been the largest export market for India in the SAARC region. This study is an analysis of the commodity composition of India’s exports to Bangladesh. The commodity composition of India’s export to Bangladesh is observed from 1988 to 2018. The commodity composition of exports are depicted using pie charts to show the top exported commodities in terms of percentage share of total exports of respective years using 2 digit classification of HS code consisting of 99 items or chapters. The most exported items of the above selected years are discussed in details in HS 4 digit classification. The analysis of the commodity composition of India’s export to Bangladesh reveals that ‘Cotton’ is one of the most important export items to Bangladesh. The top fifteen items in terms of percentage share constitutes the majority of the exported items.