Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association

Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association or BGMEA is a national trade organization of garments manufacturers in Bangladesh and is located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Siddiqur Rahman is the incumbent President of BGMEA.

BGMEA was founded in 1983.BGMEA Institute of Fashion and Technology, a tertairy education institute is owned by the trade body. the trade body has a research wing.

BGMEA bhaban is a 16 storey building that is the headquarters of BGMEA and is located in Hatirjheel, Dhaka. The foundation of the building was placed in 1998 by then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. In 2006 it was inaugurated by then Prime Minister Khaleda Zia. The building was built illegally on canal land. On 3 April 2011 Bangladesh High Court ordered the building to be demolished. The High Court in its verdict declared The BGMEA Bhaban is like a cancer in the Hatirjheel project and if the building is not taken down immediately, it will infect not just Hatirjheel but the entire Dhaka City. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh led by chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha upheald the verdict of the High Court on 2 June 2016.