Bangladesh – second largest importer of India’s cotton

Bangladesh is the next largest importer of cotton from India. In the past nine months till February, India exported cotton worth US $ 510.26 million against US $ 698.88 million in FY14. In 2012-13 (April-March), Indian cotton exports to Bangladesh stood at US $ 610.06 million.

China had been the largest importer of Indian cotton over the last three years. Commerce minister of India, Nirmala Sitharaman informed that China had imported cotton worth US $ 696.5 million in the first 11 months of FY15

In FY14, India had exported US $ 1,912.95-million cotton to China and US $ 2,237.38 million in 2012-13. In April-February 2014-15, India’s total export of cotton stood at US $ 1,707.59 million. Vietnam is in third place as cotton importer from India.