New Delhi this month suspended an agreement that allowed companies in Bangladesh to export to the rest of the world through Indian ports and airports, potentially hitting its neighbor’s mammoth clothing sector hard and deepening tensions between the two nations.
“The transshipment facility … resulted in significant congestion at our airports and ports,” Randhir Jaiswal, India’s Ministry of External Affairs spokesman, told reporters earlier this month, noting that the arrangement had been revoked on April 8. “We (India) have to create more space for our own exports.”
