Destination market
Exporting East African Pulses to Bangladesh
A consistent pulse-importing market clearing through Chattogram, buying on delivered cost.
- Region
- South Asia
- Discharge ports
- Chattogram · Mongla
- Commodities
- 3 relevant
Bangladesh imports a substantial share of the pulses it consumes. Chickpeas and mung beans are the most relevant lines for an East African origin, with demand concentrated around processing and repacking for the domestic retail trade.
The market is price-sensitive and buyers work to a delivered cost. That does not mean specification is unimportant — it means the specification has to be matched to the price point, and the honest commercial answer is often a machine-cleaned grade rather than a colour-sorted one.
Import conditions, including any registration, testing or phytosanitary requirement, should be confirmed with the buyer's clearing agent for the current period.
Buyer requirements
What buyers in this market assess
- Match specification to the price point
- Over-specifying a lot for this market prices it out. Agree the grade against the target landed cost rather than defaulting to the tightest specification.
- Container availability and transit
- Transit time and service frequency vary by routing. Confirm the routing when the shipment window is agreed, not afterwards.
Confirm before contracting. Import duty, quantitative restrictions, registration requirements, permitted treatments and phytosanitary conditions are set by the importing country and change over time. Nothing on this page states the requirement in force for any route. Verify the current position with your own customs broker and the competent authority.
Products
Commodities relevant to this market
Chickpeas
Kabuli and Desi chickpeas from Ethiopia and Tanzania, traded on calibrated size for packers and on milling yield for processors.
Mung Beans (Green Gram)
Green gram from Tanzania and Kenya, machine cleaned or Sortex, graded to size for milling, retail and sprouting buyers.
Pigeon Peas
Whole pigeon peas from Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique for dal milling, canning and retail packing.
Shipping pulses to Bangladesh?
Send your product, specification, quantity, packing, destination port, Incoterm and required shipment window. Where a documentary or treatment requirement affects the offer, we will raise it before the contract rather than after.
- Product
- Specification
- Quantity
- Packing
- Destination port
- Incoterm
- Documents required