CONTINUING TO DELIVER ON RECIPROCAL TRADE: Today, President Donald J. Trump announced a trade agreement that will provide the United States with unprecedented levels of market access in Bangladesh and strengthen our bilateral economic relationship. The United States and Bangladesh reached an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade, a legally binding agreement, that will provide American exporters with access to Bangladesh’s market of 175 million people while bolstering U.S. national and economic security.
Key terms of the U.S.-Bangladesh Agreement on Reciprocal Trade include:
- Tariffs:
- Bangladesh has committed to provide significant preferential market access for U.S. industrial and agricultural goods, including chemicals, machinery and parts, medical devices, motor vehicles and parts, information and communications technology equipment, energy products, soy products, dairy products, beef, poultry, and tree nuts and fruit, supporting high-quality American jobs.
- The United States will maintain a 19 percent reciprocal tariff rate for imports of Bangladesh except for identified products from the list set out in Annex III (Potential Tariff Adjustments for Aligned Partners) to Executive Order 14346 of September 5, 2025 (Modifying the Scope of Reciprocal Tariffs and Establishing Procedures for Implementing Trade and Security Agreements), as amended, which will receive a zero percent reciprocal tariff rate.
- Breaking Down Non-Tariff Barriers for U.S. Industrial Exports: Bangladesh has committed to address a range of non-tariff barriers that affect bilateral trade and investment in priority areas, including by Bangladesh accepting vehicles built to U.S. Federal motor vehicle safety and emissions standards; accepting FDA certificates and prior marketing authorizations for medical devices and pharmaceuticals; and removing any import restrictions or licensing requirements on U.S. remanufactured goods or their parts.
- Breaking Down Non-Tariff Barriers for U.S. Agriculture Exports: Bangladesh has committed to address and prevent barriers to U.S. agricultural exports in its market, including by accepting certificates issued by U.S. regulatory authorities and recognizing U.S. sanitary and phytosanitary measures and other measures for food and agricultural products.
- Strengthening Labor Protections: Bangladesh has committed to protect internationally recognized labor rights. Bangladesh will, among other commitments, adopt and implement a prohibition on the importation of goods produced by forced or compulsory labor; amend its labor laws to ensure that workers’ rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining are fully protected, including in export processing zones; resolve criminal cases against workers for participating in union activities; adopt a minimum wage review mechanism; and strengthen enforcement of its labor laws.
- Removing Barriers for Digital Trade, Services, and Investment: Bangladesh has committed to permit the free transfer of data across trusted borders; support the adoption of a permanent moratorium on customs duties on electronic transmissions at the WTO; and remove barriers in the insurance market.
- Geographical Indications (GIs) and Market Access: Bangladesh has committed to groundbreaking provisions that will preserve current and future U.S. market access for U.S. cheese and meat producers who rely on the use of common names. This includes ensuring that market access will not be restricted due to the mere use of certain cheese and meat terms. Bangladesh has also committed to robust standards for transparency and fairness regarding the protection of GIs and to ensure that U.S. products can continue using terms that have been unfairly protected as GIs.
- Protecting and Enforcing Intellectual Property: Bangladesh has made commitments that will benefit American innovators and creators by enhancing intellectual property protection and prioritizing enforcement against intellectual property theft. This includes joining and fully implementing key international intellectual property treaties.
- Strengthening Economic Security Alignment: The United States and Bangladesh are committed to strengthening cooperation to increase supply chain resilience. This includes taking complementary actions to address unfair trade policies of third countries, cooperating on export controls, addressing duty evasion, and sharing information on inbound investment in our respective territories.
- Strengthening Environmental Enforcement: Bangladesh has committed to adopt and maintain high levels of environmental protection and to effectively enforce its environmental laws.
- Confronting State-Owned Enterprises and Subsidies: Bangladesh has committed to address distortionary behaviors of its state-owned enterprises when engaging in commercial activities and address distortions caused by domestic manufacturing subsidies.
- Advancing Anti-Corruption, Trade Facilitation and Good Regulatory Practices: Bangladesh has committed to strengthen comprehensive anti-corruption laws, advance trade facilitating measures, and adopt and implement good regulatory practices at the central level of government.
- Notching Commercial Deals: The United States and Bangladesh take note of commercial deals in the agriculture, energy, and civil aviation sectors, which will further increase U.S. exports to Bangladesh. Agricultural deals include purchases of wheat, soy and soy products, and cotton, with an estimated total value of $3.5 billion.
THE PROSPEROUS PATH FORWARD: In the coming weeks, the United States and Bangladesh will undertake applicable domestic procedures in advance of the Agreement entering into force, in order to lock in benefits for American businesses and workers.
- The U.S. total goods trade deficit with Bangladesh was $6.1 billion in 2024.
- President Trump has delivered a forward-looking and tough trade deal that will benefit American workers, exporters, farmers, small businesses, and digital innovators—this deal is what winning looks and will feel like for all Americans.
LIBERATING AMERICA FROM UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES: Since Day One, President Trump challenged the assumption that American workers and businesses must tolerate unfair trade practices that have disadvantaged them for decades and contributed to our historic trade deficit.
- On April 2, 2025, President Trump declared a national emergency in response to the large and persistent U.S. goods trade deficit caused by a lack of reciprocity in our bilateral trade relationships, unfair tariff and non-tariff barriers, and U.S. trading partners’ economic policies that suppress domestic wages and consumption.
- President Trump continues to advance the interests of the American people and our agricultural sector by removing tariff and non-tariff barriers and expanding market access for American exporters.
- The United States has reached agreements on reciprocal trade with Malaysia and Cambodia (October 26, 2025), El Salvador (January 29, 2026), Guatemala (January 30, 2026), and Argentina (February 5, 2026).
- Today’s announcement further shows that America can defend its domestic production while obtaining expansive market access with our trading partners.
