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Section 14

Jute products (bags, hessian, yarn)

India’s exports: 151.33 US$ million · 2025-26 (provisional)

HS codes
3
top markets
5

How to start

  1. Get an Import Export Code (IEC) from DGFT online; it is free and linked to your PAN.
  2. Register with JPDEPC and get your RCMC (Registration-cum-Membership Certificate) through the DGFT e-RCMC system.
  3. Jute shopping and promotional bags for retailers are the easiest MSME entry; source fabric from mills in West Bengal.
  4. The National Jute Board runs design and market support; ask about its schemes.

Top buyer countries

  1. Ghana26.26 US$ million · 2025-26
  2. Côte d'Ivoire13.06 US$ million · 2025-26
  3. United States12.52 US$ million · 2025-26
  4. Tanzania9.56 US$ million · 2025-26
  5. Netherlands4.77 US$ million · 2025-26

Certificates and registrations

  • JPDEPC RCMC
  • Food-grade (hydrocarbon-free) jute bags for coffee, cocoa and grain buyers
  • Azo-free dye certificate for dyed shopping bags

Watch out for

  • Raw jute prices depend on the monsoon crop.
  • Bangladesh competes hard on price in jute bags and yarn.

Businesses in the encyclopedia

Gunny (Jute) Bag Making →Printed Jute Bag Making →Jute Wall Hanging Making →

Sources (3)
  1. TradeStat, Department of Commerce — Export: Principal Commodity-wise, April–March 2026 (provisional), US$ million — row "R9, OTHER JUTE MANUFACTURES"
  2. TradeStat (Export Import Data Bank), Department of Commerce — Commodity-wise all countries export, HS 630510, 2025-26, US$ million · 2025-26
  3. HBP Appendix 2T — List of EPCs / Commodity Boards (DGFT), via research/export-import.json · 2023