Trade & Market

China's immense manufacturing power has drawn a series of environmental and wage concerns around the globe. Its increasingly hawkish geopolitical posture has attracted countless critics and has been perceived as a threat worldwide. It has also sparred with the United States in the form of a trade...

The 4th Bangladesh-Japan Joint PPP platform meeting was held at the Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday highlighting important projects presented by the Japanese side. Public Private Partnership Authority (PPPA) and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) of Japan jointly organised the...

The laboured process for settlement of letters of credit is one of the bottlenecks of Bangladesh’s investment climate, said a delegation from Japan on Thursday. “Bangladesh has the most complicated LC opening conditions -- there are terms and conditions unique only to this country,”...

Commerce Secretary Md Jafar Uddin said Bangladesh earned 20 billion dollars from exports as production continued even during the Covid-19 pandemic. "Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's prompt and courageous decision at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic made it possible," he said.

Bangladesh has beaten India on exports in the past decade, and the Economic Survey 2021 explains why. Bangladesh exports posted a compounded annual growth rate of 8.6% over 2011-2019 versus India's export growth of 0.9% and a world average of 0.4%, the survey said.

Bangladesh is preparing to take an alternative route to strengthen its trade ties with Russia, bypassing the US sanctions on the latter. As part of it, the Bangladesh Bank has taken an initiative to enter into a bilateral swap agreement with the Central Bank...

“Showcase Bangladesh 2021: China-Bangladesh Investment Summit, a virtual platform jointly organized by Standard Chartered and Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA), was held recently. The virtual event showcased the partnership potential between Bangladesh and China and highlight the emerging strategic opportunities in a shifting global...

চাল আমদানি নিয়ে জটিলতা দেখা দিয়েছে। বেসরকারি খাতে আমদানির জন্য যাদের এলসি করার অনুমোদন দিয়েছে তারা চাল আমদানিতে গড়িমসি করছে বলে অভিযোগ উঠেছে। এখনো পর্যন্ত চট্টগ্রামের বাজারে আমদানির কোনো চাল আসেনি। ফলে পাইকারি বাজারে চালের দাম বস্তায় আবার ১০০ টাকা করে বেড়েছে। তবে আমদানিকারকদের...

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has said that the government is trying to revive the country’s trade and commerce, which was affected due to Covid-19 pandemic, through various stimulus packages announced by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. In the medium-term, he suggested that Bangladesh should look...

A large real estate company, Royal Homes, has built a residential project named Royal City in the South Surma area of Sylhet. But, business at the firm has come to a standstill since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Buyers are not paying the installments of the...