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  Q1 capital machinery imports plunge

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:25pm on November 13, 2020

  Import of capital machinery dropped by 38.95 per cent or $525.05 million year-on-year in the first quarter of the current fiscal year 20202021, a reflection...

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  EPZ investors allowed to reuse import containers for export

  Jasim Uddin | Updated at 11:34pm on November 09, 2020

  The National Board of Revenue has allowed the reuse of import containers for export by investors in export processing zones to reduce time and cost...

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  Duty on raw cashew nut import relaxed

  Shakhawat Hossain   | Updated at 11:51pm on November 08, 2020

  The government has relaxed the import duty on raw cashew nut import following requests from the agriculture ministry to flourish labourintensive processing plants. The overall...

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  Cabinet body okays import of 13 lakh tonnes crude oils for 2021

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:40am on November 05, 2020

  The cabinet committee on national purchases on Wednesday approved a proposal to import 13 lakh tonnes of crude oils for the state-run Eastern Refinery Limited...

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  Maldives wants to import alluvial soil from Bangladesh

  Diplomatic Correspondent | Updated at 01:09am on November 03, 2020

  Maldives on Monday expressed keen interest in importing alluvial soil from Bangladesh. Maldivian foreign minister Abdulla Shahid expressed the intent in a conversation over phone...

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  Cell formed to check transfer pricing misuse by MNCs

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 09:21pm on November 02, 2020

  The National Board of Revenue has formed a separate transfer pricing cell for its customs wing to curb money laundering by multinational companies through manipulation...

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  Onion import starts from alternate sources: Tipu Munshi

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka | Updated at 11:40pm on November 01, 2020

  Commerce minister Tipu Munshi on Sunday said that onion import had started from alternate sources in a bid to meet the demand on the local...

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  Banks violating import policy in opening LCs for importers

  Jasim Uddin | Updated at 10:44pm on October 24, 2020

  Banks are opening letters of credit for importers above the annual import ceiling set in the import registration certificates in violation of the Import Policy...

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  Indonesia initiates safeguard probe of RMG import

  Jasim Uddin | Updated at 10:43pm on October 04, 2020

  Indonesia has initiated a safeguard investigation regarding its import of apparel products that may negatively affect Bangladesh’s export of the products to the Southeast Asian...

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  Banks asked to keep minimal margin against onion import

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 04:03pm on September 17, 2020

  The Bangladesh Bank on Thursday asked all the scheduled banks to keep charges against the letter of credits for the import of onion at a...