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Reschedule post-import financing facility once, says BB

Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:34am on June 14, 2021

The Bangladesh Bank on Sunday asked the scheduled banks not to offer rescheduling or restructuring facility against post-import financing for more than once after the...
Policy support for Covid medicine import extended till Dec

Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:58pm on June 10, 2021

The Bangladesh Bank on Thursday extended the validity of its policy relaxation for the import of coronavirus-related medicines till December 31 from June 30. The...
BCMEA demands raising tariff on import of tiles

Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:56pm on June 10, 2021

Leaders of the Bangladesh Ceramic Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BCMEA) on Thursday demanded imposing higher tariff on import of tiles for the safeguard of the...
Goods transport, earnings by railway increase

Shahin Akhter | Updated at 12:03am on June 05, 2021

The amount of goods carried by Bangladesh Railway and earnings increased significantly in the current 2020-21 fiscal year amid the Covid outbreak. The railways minister...
No discommoding single-source import dependence

| Updated at 12:00am on May 24, 2021

IMPORT source diversification has always been as important as export market diversification. The concern only is that the government has largely ignored both of them...
Bangladesh’s import dependence on India backfires

Shakhawat Hossain | Updated at 12:04am on May 23, 2021

India’s recent move to slap a ban on the export of jute seeds has alerted the government since Bangladesh imports 80 per cent of its...
Rice import payments rise 32 times in July-March

HM Murtuza | Updated at 11:11pm on May 21, 2021

Year-on-year import of rice increased 31.59 times in the first nine months of the current fiscal year 2020-2021 with a view to strengthening the stock...
Duty on raw material import waived

Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:50pm on May 19, 2021

The National Board of Revenue has offered duty exemption on import of raw materials required for the manufacturing of RT-PCR test kit for detection of...
China exports top forecasts, imports growth best in 10 years

Agence France-Presse . Beijing | Updated at 11:04pm on May 07, 2021

Chinese exports grew at a forecast-busting rate in April, data showed on Friday, while imports surged at their strongest in a decade as the global...
Strict policy on importing wild life a must

| Updated at 12:00am on April 13, 2021

THE reported commercial farming of invasive fish is likely to further endanger the aquatic biodiversity unless the government takes immediate steps against it. A probe...