Jute products of Bangladesh: a full list, their uses and 2026 prices

What products are made from jute?

Jute products fall into two groups. Traditional mill products are the heavy ones: hessian cloth, sacking, carpet backing cloth, and jute yarn and twine. Diversified jute products are everything else made with at least 50% jute, from shopping bags and baskets to espadrilles, saris and geotextiles, and the government lists 282 of them. For a home, the best buys are a plain jute shopping bag and a basket: cheap, strong and used every day.

A list of jute products, with Bangla names and uses

Everything in this table except hessian, sacking, carpet backing cloth and yarn appears by name on the government's 2024 list of diversified jute products, explained below.

What are the traditional jute products?

They're what Bangladesh's jute mills were built to make: hessian, a plain-woven cloth; sacking, the heavy cloth for sacks that carry grain, sugar and fertiliser; carpet backing cloth, the base of tufted carpets; and yarn and twine. The Jute Act 2017 treats these as the traditional goods and counts any other product with at least 50% jute as diversified, The Financial Express reported in October 2020.

They still earn most of the money. In fiscal 2025-26, jute yarn alone brought in $545.8 million and sacks and bags $132.3 million, according to Export Promotion Bureau figures reported by bdnews24.com in September 2026. More on exports below.

At home, sacking has the law behind it. The Mandatory Jute Packaging Act 2010 requires jute sacks for 19 products, including rice, wheat, maize, pulses and flour. Chilli, turmeric, onion, garlic, ginger, coriander and potatoes were added in 2017, and poultry and fish feed in 2018. The penalty is up to a year in jail, a fine of up to ৳50,000, or both. Enforcement has been weak: in September 2024 The Daily Star found plastic sacks widely used for rice in Dhaka's Mirpur, Mohammadpur and Karwan Bazar markets.

What are diversified jute products?

Any product with at least 50% jute that isn't hessian, sacking, carpet backing cloth or yarn. The Ministry of Textiles and Jute first named 282 of them in an October 2020 circular, and the Bangladesh Gazette published a revised, complete list of 282 on 24 July 2024. Grouped, the list covers:

• Bags: shopping, school, ladies', laptop, tote, travel, grocery, beach, wine and promotional bags, purses and backpacks.
• Home textiles: bed sheets, curtains, cushion and sofa covers, blankets, table mats, runners, coasters, napkins and tea cosies.
• Floors and walls: door mats, floor mats, carpets, shataranji, prayer mats, wall mats, wall hangings and wallpaper.
• Baskets and storage: fruit, laundry, bread, toy and storage baskets, trays, the shika (listed as "shikka/jute hanger"), hammocks and nursery pot hangers.
• Fashion: espadrilles and other shoes, floor slippers, hats, belts, scarves, jewellery, saris, shirts, panjabis, jute denim and jackets.
• Stationery: file folders, diary covers, notebooks, photo frames, pen holders, jute paper and handmade cards.
• Garden and festive: nursery pots and sheets, garden twine, jute ropes, Christmas decorations, toys and jute flowers.
• Industrial and new: fine yarns, dyed and laminated fabrics, tarpaulin, geotextiles, jute composites and boards, jute furniture, organic tea, charcoal and the Sonali Bag.

Our view: the list is long, but most of it is made in small numbers. In 2025-26, exports of diversified jute products other than yarn and sacks fell 11.28% to $74.4 million, under a tenth of all jute export earnings (bdnews24.com).

How much do jute products cost in Bangladesh?

Most everyday jute pieces cost ৳150 to ৳1,000 online. These are Bangladeshi shop websites' prices on 31 October 2026, often sale prices.

Jute product prices (October 2026)

We found no dated retail price for jute espadrilles in Bangladesh, so they're left out. For door mats and rugs by size, see our jute rug price guide; for wall pieces, see our wall hanging price guide.

Three things to check before you buy:

• Laminated or not. The government list covers bags of "laminated or non-laminated" jute. A laminated bag has a plastic coating inside: it keeps out water but isn't plastic-free. For groceries, an unlaminated bag is the greener choice.
• How much jute. Jute-cotton is softer than pure jute. To count as a jute product under the law, at least half of it must be jute.
• Damp. Jute stains and goes mouldy when it stays wet, so keep it out of bathrooms and off damp floors.

One common mix-up: shital pati, the cool sleeping mat, isn't jute. It's woven from murta cane; see our shital pati price guide.

What is the Sonali Bag, and can you buy one?

The Sonali Bag (সোনালী ব্যাগ, "golden bag") is a thin, polythene-like bag made from cellulose extracted from jute. Mubarak Ahmad Khan, scientific adviser to Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC), invented it in 2015, Prothom Alo reported. A research project to make it began under BJMC in 2017, with its machinery at Latif Bawany Jute Mills in Demra, Dhaka.

You can't buy one in a shop. In October 2024 each bag cost about ৳10 to make on the experimental line, The Financial Express reported, too costly to compete with polythene. The project ended in December 2024 without commercial production because the cost couldn't be brought down. On 8 October 2026 its unused machinery, about 53 items from a project worth roughly ৳20 crore, was handed to Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University for research, Desh Rupantor reported.

The jute alternative to polythene you can buy is a plain woven jute bag. In August 2025 the Ministry of Textiles and Jute began selling subsidised jute bags for ৳20 to ৳70 from vans and TCB trucks in Dhaka's markets, Independent Television reported.

What are jute geotextiles and jute composites used for?

Geotextiles are woven or non-woven jute fabrics laid on soil. The 2024 list describes them as laid on earthen slopes to conserve soil. A ৳86.3 crore government project tried them on rural roads, five riverbanks and three hill slopes, and ended in June 2016. Only a few mills make them, in small amounts, and Janata Jute Mills exports all of its output. Its deputy managing director told Prothom Alo in 2021 that jute geotextiles don't last in contact with water, which limits their use.

Jute composites are boards, sheets and tiles made by bonding jute fibre, and the list also names jute furniture. bdnews24.com reported in September 2026 that buyers abroad want jute for technical textiles, gardening, packaging and car parts, and charcoal made from jute sticks for China and other countries.

What are the uses of jute?

Six uses of jute, with examples, for a short answer at school:

• Packaging: sacks and bags for rice, wheat, sugar, potatoes and fertiliser.
• Floor coverings: door mats, rugs, carpets and carpet yarn.
• Bags, clothes and shoes: shopping bags, saris, panjabis, espadrilles.
• Home decor and stationery: baskets, the shika, wall mats, table mats, file folders, notebooks.
• Farming and soil: nursery pots, garden twine and geotextiles that protect roads and riverbanks.
• Industry and new products: composite boards, jute paper, jute-stick charcoal and jute tea.

Jute is a natural plant fibre, so a jute bag rots away in soil where a polythene bag doesn't. That's the reason behind both the packaging law and the Sonali Bag.

Where are jute products made in Bangladesh?

Heavy goods come from jute mills. The state-owned BJMC once ran 25 of them, in Khulna, Chattogram, Dhaka and elsewhere. The government shut all 25 in July 2020 and sent at least 25,000 workers into early retirement, The Business Standard reported; the textiles minister said then that BJMC accounted for only 8.21% of jute production and 4.45% of exports. Since then closed mills have been reopening under private operators, and in October 2026 the state minister for textiles and jute said steps were being taken to reopen Latif Bawany and Karim jute mills the same way.

Handmade jute goods come from villages, often from women working at home:

• Rangpur. In Mithapukur, about 600 women from seven villages make shika, bags, pet beds, wall mats, baskets and door mats for Dilara Begum's group, earning ৳6,000 to ৳7,000 a month. Traders in Dhaka and Chattogram ship the pieces to China, Turkey, Germany and the United States (Prothom Alo, February 2026).
• Lalmonirhat. Along the Teesta, about 3,000 women plait jute braid (beni) that craft companies turn into bags, door mats and shataranji. In 2024 they were paid ৳24 to ৳30 a kilo for thick braid and ৳80 to ৳90 for fine (The Daily Star Bangla, July 2024).

How much jute does Bangladesh export?

Bangladesh earned $883.7 million from jute and jute goods in fiscal 2025-26, up 7.75% from $820.8 million in 2024-25, the lowest in 12 years. Jute yarn made up more than 60% of it.

Jute exports by product, 2025-26

Source: Export Promotion Bureau data, reported by bdnews24.com on 28 September 2026. Raw jute exports fell about 77% by weight, from 167,000 tonnes to 38,000 tonnes. In July and August 2026, jute exports rose 37.09% to $162.5 million, and the government's 2026-31 action plan aims to double annual earnings to $1.64 billion by 2031. In 2020-21, earnings reached about $1.15 billion.

The main buyers are Turkey, China, India, Egypt, Uzbekistan, Indonesia, Morocco, the UAE, Jordan, Pakistan, Russia and Iran. Turkey is the main buyer of jute carpet yarn and rope twine, The Daily Star reported in December 2025. Bangladesh is the world's second-largest jute producer, growing about 9 million bales a year.

Where can you buy jute products?

• Small makers online. Baah (also sold on Rokomari), Boyon Bitan, Aljut, Jutex and Karujog all sell online. Our home decor shops guide compares delivery and cash on delivery at the bigger craft shops.
• The government's channel. BSCIC's online market lists jute pieces from small producers.
• Gifts abroad. Jute is light and packs flat; our guide to gifts from Bangladesh covers packing it.

JADUZ doesn't sell jute pieces yet. JADUZ is a curated marketplace for Bangladeshi makers: every maker is vetted and every piece approved before it goes live, and buyers pay cash on delivery anywhere in Bangladesh. If you make jute bags, baskets or shika, see how to sell jute work on JADUZ, and our handmade business ideas for what sells online.