Dhaka May 3, 2025, 12:58 am
Apart from trading assurances, no breakthrough was made in the just-concluded fifth meeting of the Trade and Investment Cooperation Framework Agreement (CFA).
All the major export items including knitwear, woven garments, home textile, leather & leather products, ceramics products, and wood & wood products witnessed sharp to moderate fall during July-February
Bangladesh lost a staggering $7.53 billion on an average between 2008 and 2017 to trade mis-invoicing during its foreign commerce with its 135 trading partners, said the Global Financial Integrity Report (GFI).
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said Bangladesh would again request the United States to revive the GSP
World-famous companies like Honda Motors, Sumitomo Nippon, Asian Paints, Barger Paints, Adani Group, Wilmar, Yabang, Siam Group, TIC Group, Unilever, Sakata Inch and Chain Harbour are the major foreign investors
The decision to allow onion exports was taken at a meeting of the Group of Ministers constituted under the chairmanship of home minister Amit Shah
By importing extra salt with the tax relief, importers have created an unequal competition with domestic salt refiners
The prices started falling on Wednesday soon after the Indian media reported about the government’s decision to withdraw its ban
A total of 18 issues will be there on the agenda -- nine issues from each side
Light engineering means manufacturing that turns pre-fabricated goods into saleable products
workers of prime mover-trailers agreed to resume operation at 4:00pm this evening after a four-hour meeting between the worker leaders and ICD owners
According to Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB), local onion was selling below Tk 100 per kilogram in Dhaka on Thursday, the first time since October last year
Bangladesh is the third-largest garment exporter in USA with an export of around $ 6.0 billion while Vietnam is the second with $ 13 billion and China tops with $ 24 billion
Some 39 foreign factories allege cash incentives are not appropriately distributed among local and foreign investors in the Export Processing Zones
In the first half of the current fiscal year, Bangladesh exported pharmaceutical products worth $74 million
trade between Bangladesh and India crossed $ 10 billion mark in 2019
India imposed anti-dumping duties on Bangladeshi jute products for five years from January 2017
6.72 lakh tonnes products came from China in January this year but the amount was 8.51 lakh tonnes during the corresponding period in 2019
The government is set to launch a pilot project on economic reintegration support for returnee migrant workers by this March aiming to help them get involved with income-generating activities, officials said.
EBay Inc is in discussions with multiple candidates regarding a potential transaction for its classified-ads business, the company said on Friday.
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