How to Import Curtains From Bangladesh in 2026: Complete Buyer Guide

To learn how to import curtains from Bangladesh, start panel by panel, not with a single generic curtain. A curtain order can combine sheer panels, lined drapes, blackout curtains and valances, in cotton, synthetic fibres or blends, each with its own size, heading, lining and tariff line.

The Harmonised System is an international commodity classification of approximately 5,000 six-digit product categories, organised by chapters, headings and sub-headings, and countries subdivide the six-digit categories further for their own tariffs.¹ In the United States schedule, heading 6303 covers curtains, including drapes, and interior blinds, and curtain or bed valances, and curtains fall inside that heading by whether they are knitted or crocheted and by fibre.² That split decides the duty line before any price is final.

This guide is for brands, retailers, hotels, wholesalers and importers in the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union and the United Arab Emirates. It states no typical minimum, price or transit time, because none has a single figure across fabrics, sizes and destinations. Fabric, lining and heading style are specification choices you set.

Why source curtains from Bangladesh

Home textile, as the term is used for Bangladesh exports, covers curtains alongside carpets, cushion covers, towels, bedspreads, furnishing fabric, table linen, bed linen, sheets and pillowcases.³ A curtain order therefore belongs with a home-textile mill or exporter whose current range already includes curtains and furnishing articles, not with a garment factory that sews only apparel. The operations differ: weaving or buying furnishing fabric at full width, cutting long panels to drop, joining widths where a panel needs more than one fabric width, sewing headings, hems and linings, and folding and packing panels so that each retail pair is complete and matched.

The range you can specify is wide: sheer, light-filtering, room-darkening and blackout constructions, printed, yarn-dyed or solid colour, and a fibre and weave you choose. Work orders for home textile are booked for one or two seasons in bulk quantities,³ so plan by season, finish sampling before the bulk order, and settle the fabric first, since several drops and widths usually share one fabric.

Find and verify suppliers

Where should you start the search?

Start with a specification, not with factory names. Write down every style first: panel or pair, fibre composition, weave and finished weight as your choices, finished width and drop from your own size chart, fullness you expect the heading to give, heading style, lining choice, hem sizes, colour or print, labelling and packing. Then shortlist mills and exporters whose current range already includes curtains. A supplier making only bed linen or apparel is not a close substitute, because panel cutting to long drops, width joining, heading work and lining use different operations.

Send every candidate the identical specification and ask for the same reply format: fabric assumed, panels per retail unit, price inclusions, validity and minimum per design and per colour. Browse suppliers on Exportain, read finding suppliers in Bangladesh, and compare your approach with the home textiles sourcing guide.

How do you verify a supplier before you pay?

Verification has three layers. The first is company documents: trade licence, export registration and association membership where applicable, checked so that name, address and bank account name agree across every document. The second is capability: monthly curtain capacity, whether weaving is in-house or fabric is bought in, fabric width, dyeing and printing route, lining route where you specify one, and which recent curtain styles the factory can show. A finished pair from current production shows more than a catalogue photograph: heading formation, hem finish, lining fit and pair matching.

The third layer is payment discipline. Keep payments to the company account named in the documents, never to a personal account, and verify any change of bank details separately. Read how supplier verification works on Exportain for what document and photo checks cover. On Exportain, supplier profiles carry document and photo review badges. A badge is a review of documents and photos, not a factory inspection or a guarantee, and Exportain is not a party to the goods contract.

MOQ, pricing and samples

What is the typical MOQ for curtains from Bangladesh?

There is no single typical minimum order quantity for curtains from Bangladesh. The minimum is set per design and usually per colour or print, because fabric is woven, dyed or printed in batches and a cutting plan is set up per size range. A plain sheer panel and a lined blackout pair with several drops will not carry the same minimum. Ask each supplier how its minimum splits by design, colour, drop, width and panel or pair composition.

How is the price built, and how should you compare quotes?

Fabric is usually the largest cost element in a curtain, followed by cutting and sewing, dyeing or printing, finishing, lining, heading components, testing, packing and the factory margin. Fabric use per panel depends on finished width, fullness and drop, and on how many widths are joined. Detail adds operations: pinch pleats, eyelets, blackout lining, interlining and pattern matching each cost more to process. Two quotes can differ because one assumes a lighter fabric, a shorter drop, less fullness, no lining or a simpler heading. Ask what each price is based on, in writing, so a lower quote is judged as a different specification rather than accepted as a saving.

Compare quotes on the same basis: same panel or pair composition, sizes, fabric, heading, lining, delivery term and packing. Ask each supplier to state what is excluded, for example lining fabric, eyelets, hooks, testing or special packing.

Which samples do you need, and how do you approve them?

Work in stages. A development sample shows whether the factory can construct the panel, form the heading evenly, join widths cleanly and complete a pair to the size chart. A pre-production sample, made in the actual production fabric, colour or print, lining and finish, is the sample you approve for bulk. Drop, colour and light control cannot be approved from a sample in substitute fabric, because washing, finishing and lining change dimensions, shade and opacity.

Test the samples as your customers will use them: hang the pair on a rod or track of the type in your programme, measure finished width and drop against your chart, check that both panels match in drop and pattern, and hold blackout fabric against a strong light to check for pinholes in the coating. Work the heading, check that the lining does not show at the edges, and confirm shrinkage and colour match after a wash following your care label. Approve in writing and keep one sealed counter-sample of each style.

Quality control and certifications needed

Which quality checks are specific to curtains?

Against the approved sample and chart, check fabric composition and finished weight, finished width and drop within your agreed tolerances, and consistency across the size matrix. Then check construction panel by panel: heading type and spacing, eyelet size and alignment where eyelets are specified, pleat formation where pleats are specified, width joins and pattern matching across each join and across the pair, side hems, bottom hem depth, corner finish and any hem weights you specified. Check the lining: correct type, including blackout lining where specified, lining drop against face drop, and no lining visible from the front when the curtain hangs. A pair can pass panel by panel and still fail as a pair if one panel is from a different shade batch or the pattern sits at a different height.

Agree the inspection method and defect limits before production. ISO 2859-1:2026 defines a system of acceptance sampling plans for inspection by attributes, and its summary states that AQL stands for acceptance quality limit, the maximum average percentage of defective items considered acceptable during random sampling, used to determine sample sizes and acceptance and rejection thresholds.⁴ Inspect in stages: an inline check during sewing and finishing catches a drift while correction is still possible, and a final random inspection on packed goods checks quantity, workmanship, measurements, labels and packing. See the acceptance quality limit and pre-shipment inspection guides.

Which label rules apply to curtains?

Fibre labelling applies to cotton, synthetic and blended curtains alike, and to the lining. Article 9 of Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 states that a textile product shall be labelled or marked with the name and percentage by weight of all constituent fibres in descending order.⁵ Agree the wording at sampling stage and check that the percentages match the fabric you bought, because the labelled composition is also the composition your classification is built on. Add care, size and origin marking as your market requires, and check the finished label before bulk label sewing begins.

Which certifications do you actually need?

No single certificate covers every curtain order. What you need follows your market and your customer: a retailer or hotel group may name a specific test or scheme in its own supplier manual, including a flammability requirement for contract use where its market imposes one. Name any such requirement in the specification, ask for the matching report or certificate, and check its scope, product covered, issuing body and date. A report for a different fabric or an unlined version does not cover your lined pair.

Incoterms, shipping and transit time

Which delivery term should a first order use?

The Incoterms 2020 rules set out, for each rule, where delivery takes place, and risk passes from seller to buyer at the same point and time as delivery.⁶ Under FOB, CFR and CIF the seller must place the goods on board the vessel.⁶ On customs, in all rules but EXW the seller must carry out export formalities, and in all rules but DDP the buyer must carry out import formalities.⁶ The same ICC Academy summary notes that the four sea rules, FAS, FOB, CFR and CIF, are only intended for port-to-port bulk or break-bulk shipments and are not suitable for container shipments, because a container is handed to the carrier before it is on board.⁶

For a first order shipped in containers, weigh FOB at the Bangladeshi port against FCA at the named terminal. Under FOB, the factory delivers the goods on board and your forwarder handles the sea leg. Under FCA, delivery happens when the goods are handed to your carrier, which matches how containerised cargo moves. See the best Incoterm for importing home textiles from Bangladesh for the comparison for this product group.

How long does shipping take?

There is no single typical transit time for curtains from Bangladesh. Sea freight is the standard route for bulk orders and it takes weeks rather than days, varying by port, routing, transshipment and season. Plan from your forwarder's current sailing schedule, and add clearance and delivery. Keep production time separate: an order is ready only when every panel has finished sewing, lining, inspection and packing. Confirm pairs per carton, carton dimensions and weight in the specification, because curtains are light for their size and carton volume can limit a shipment before weight does.

Import duty, taxes and documents

How are curtains classified for duty?

Duty follows the classification of each style in your destination tariff, not the supplier's product name. The central heading is 6303, which covers curtains, including drapes, and interior blinds, and curtain or bed valances.² Construction selects the first split: knitted or crocheted curtains sit in 6303.12 for synthetic fibres and in 6303.19 for other textile materials, while the other, not knitted or crocheted, group splits by fibre into 6303.91 for cotton, 6303.92 for synthetic fibres and 6303.99 for other textile materials.² A sheer synthetic panel, a woven cotton drape and a knitted panel in one order can therefore sit on three different lines. Confirm the full national code for each style before you price or ship, and classify any separate valance or blind in a window set on its own line.

What import duty applies?

Your rate depends on your market, each style's subheading, the origin and any preference in force on the entry date, so there is no single rate for a whole curtain order. In the United States schedule opened for this guide, Revision 17 (2026), the general rate for knitted or crocheted curtains of synthetic fibres, 6303.12.00, is 11.3 percent.² For knitted or crocheted curtains of cotton in the United States split, 6303.19.11, the general rate is 10.3 percent, and for the other line in that group, 6303.19.21, it is 6.4 percent.² For the other, not knitted or crocheted, group, curtains of cotton, 6303.91.00, carry a general rate of 10.3 percent, curtains of synthetic fibres, 6303.92.10 and 6303.92.20, carry 11.3 percent, and curtains of other textile materials, 6303.99.00, carry 11.3 percent.² Read those figures as schedule lines in that revision, indicative for your entry date, and confirm the current rate before you commit to a selling price.

In the European Union, the Everything But Arms scheme is a special arrangement for least developed countries, granting full duty-free and quota-free access to the EU Single Market for all products except arms and ammunition.⁷ The updated scheme, approved for application from 1 January 2027, continues Everything But Arms with full duty-free access for all goods except arms and ammunition.⁸ In the United Kingdom, the Developing Countries Trading Scheme guidance lists Bangladesh in the Comprehensive Preferences tier, with 0 percent import tariffs on 99.8 percent of products, being all products except arms and ammunition.⁹ The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce (KVK) makes the closing point: customs classifies products using HS codes and commodity codes, each code is unique, and using the correct code matters because it determines which import duties apply and whether you need permits or certificates.¹⁰ A preference depends on the goods meeting the origin rules of the scheme, so agree the proof of origin at order stage. Import VAT is separate from duty: often recoverable, but a cash cost at clearance.

Which documents do you need for clearance?

The standard import set is the commercial invoice, packing list, bill of lading or air waybill, and proof of origin where a preference is claimed. The invoice should name each style plainly, for example woven cotton curtain pair with blackout lining, with composition, heading, panels per unit, quantities, unit prices and the delivery term, on its own line. Keep knitted, woven, cotton and synthetic styles on separate lines matching their classifications. Quantities, weights and carton counts must agree across every document.

Landed cost example

A landed cost is the full cost of one curtain pair, ready to sell. Every number below is an example figure only, not a quote.

Example figures: 3,000 cotton curtain pairs, FOB Chattogram, sea freight to a European port, duty at an example rate only.

Import VAT or sales tax is not included, because its treatment depends on your market and tax position. Work the calculation twice: at quote stage, style by style, and again after shipment with the actual invoices. See landed cost for imports from Bangladesh for the full method.

Step-by-step import checklist: how to import curtains from Bangladesh

1. Write the specification style by style: panel or pair, fibre, weave and finished weight as your choices, finished width and drop, fullness, heading style, lining choice including blackout lining where you want it, hems, colours or prints, labels and packing.

2. Classify every style, starting from heading 6303, then 6303.12 and 6303.19 for knitted or crocheted curtains, and 6303.91, 6303.92 and 6303.99 for other curtains, and confirm each full code and duty with your broker.

3. Shortlist mills and exporters whose range includes curtains, and request comparable quotes on the identical specification and delivery term.

4. Verify the chosen supplier: company documents, curtain capacity, fabric source and width, dyeing, printing and lining route, and a video or in-person factory check for a first order.

5. Order samples in stages, hang and measure them, test the pair for drop match, pattern match and blackout performance, then approve a pre-production sample of each style in production fabric and lining.

6. Confirm the order in writing: purchase order, pro forma invoice, delivery and payment terms, inspection plan with AQL and defect limits, labelling, packing and shipment date.

7. Inspect during production and again on packed goods against the approved samples, checking pair matching, heading formation and shade consistency.

8. Ship, clear customs with the confirmed code for each style, and reconcile the actual landed cost.

How Exportain helps

Browse suppliers for Bangladeshi home-textile exporters and compare their ranges against your style list. Then post your specification and target quantity as an RFQ and compare replies on the same terms before you choose a factory for sampling. Exportain is a B2B marketplace where buyers post RFQs, receive quotations and message suppliers. It does not inspect goods, book freight or clear customs.

FAQs

What is the typical MOQ for curtains from Bangladesh?

There is no single typical minimum. It is set per design and usually per colour or print, because fabric is woven, dyed or printed in batches and a cutting plan is set up per size range.

How long does shipping take?

Production time and transit time are separate, and neither has a single typical figure. Sea transit takes weeks rather than days and varies by port, routing and season.

What import duty applies?

Duty follows the confirmed classification of each style, the destination and the origin. Curtains sit in heading 6303: 6303.12 and 6303.19 for knitted or crocheted curtains, and 6303.91, 6303.92 and 6303.99 for other curtains.² In the European Union, Bangladesh benefits from Everything But Arms duty-free access, subject to origin rules.⁷ In the United Kingdom, Bangladesh is listed under Comprehensive Preferences, with 0 percent tariffs on 99.8 percent of products.⁹ For the United States, confirm the current rate beside each style's code for the entry date.

How do I verify a supplier?

Check company documents first, so that name, address and bank account agree across the trade licence, export registration and invoices. Then check capability: curtain capacity, fabric source and width, dyeing, printing and lining route and recent curtain production. Keep payments to the company account named in the documents, and approve a pre-production sample of each style before bulk production.

Next steps on Exportain

Read how to import from Bangladesh for the full process, then use how to write an RFQ to set out your style list. When ready, post a free RFQ on Exportain and compare quotes on the same terms.