Dhaka July 5, 2025, 1:31 am
The VAT on LPG cylinders has been slashed to 5.0 per cent from 15 per cent through issuing a Statutory Regulatory order (SRO)
Reforms in focus
Samuda Food Products Limited applied for 60 acres of developed land to set up a variety of chemical industries, consumer goods and food processing plants with an investment of $205.28 million in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilp
Initiatives are being taken to make sugar mills profitable by modernising them and providing alternative income
Some 203 out of 263 business companies surveyed in an elite shopping mall in Chattogram city area were not paying VAT
The countries include Australia, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Brazil, South Korea, Argentina, United Arab Emitares and Sri Lanka
Onion import through sea routes on the rise
Experts craft five-year roadmap to achieve the milestone
CBI found that a number of BSF personnel in collaboration with the Indian Customs were engaged in cattle smuggling on the Indo-Bangladesh border for a long period
Both the state agencies have reached a consensus regarding integration of the taxpayers identification number (TIN) issuance system with the one-stop service centre of Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA)
The commerce ministry of Bangladesh recently sent a letter to the authorities concerned of Bhutan in the regard through diplomatic channel
Several major industrial groups have begun to import onions on request of the government, but issues such as actual import amount, number of letters of credits (LCs) opened, import/selling prices and others are not monitored
The seasonal traders were suffering losses with their unsold leathers after this year's Eid. However, their mounting losses have been halted with purchase of the hides by tanneries last week
This project is an outcome of the concept of “BIG-B” (The Bay of Bengal Industrial Growth Belt) jointly announced by prime ministers of Bangladesh and Japan in September 2014
Dr Momen urged Rwandan Foreign Minister to import pharmaceutical products, readymade garment and bicycles from Bangladesh
Suspension of trade due to pandemic
They also called for automation, customs' modernisation and better coordination among the stakeholders as logistics ecosystem involves many entities of the public and private sectors
Crew member tests Covid-19 positive
The operating enterprises of eight EPZs under BEPZA exported goods worth of $3913.14 million during January-August, 2020
New stimulus package likely soon to woo FDI
