Tag: trade

The wholesale rice price in Dhaka city markets fell marginally by 0.8 percent, down to Tk 30.4 per kg, in two weeks ending on July 11.

A DCCI-Japan liaison office was inaugurated in Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday.

Today, 20 July 2013, East Way Fashion House has been inaugurated its 10th branch at Bikrampur Plaza, Juraine in Dhaka. Alhaz Nasim Ahmed Babu, Director of East Way Private Limited formally inaugurated this branch.

Stakeholders of the five-year project under Rural Employment and Road Maintenance Programme (RERMP) under Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) urged extension of the tenure of the project which came to an end on June 30.

The four-day-long hartal enforced by Bangladesh Jamaat-e Islami since last Monday morning has created resentment and frustration among the mango growers, consumers, traders and transporters in the region.

Mobile Phone Operator Robi Axiata Limited, nation’s only Passive Infrastructure Company, Bangladesh Infrastructure Company Limited (BICL) and Nationwide Internet Service Provider Tomato Web (Pvt.) Limited have recently signed a Tripartite Agreement regarding Infrastructure Sharing. This is the 1st Agreement BICL…

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive seized 378 kilograms of hilsa fish worth Tk3.78 lakh from Bhomra border in Sadar upazila of the district early Wednesday.

Fakruddin Restaurant has offered various kinds of Iftar delicious menus on the occasion of the sacred month of Ramadan.

East Way Fashion House, which is set out with the slogan of “ the former speech in fashion” , inaugurated its 9th branch on the 10th July, 2013, Wednesday, at Banoshri in Dhaka. Alhaz Nasim Ahmed Babu, Director of East…

Women entrepreneurs of Rajshahi will be allotted commercial plots within next one month for setting up silk and boutique industries there.

Oil rose to near $105 a barrel Wednesday, driven by speculation that U.S. crude stockpiles fell last week in a sign of higher demand.

Aarong, a leading fashion and lifestyle brand in the country, opened its first discount sales center on occasion of holy Ramadan in Barisal at the basement of K Jahan Center on Sadar Road area of the city center Tuesday.

Commercial cultivation of cardamom has begun in Benapole stirring interests of many even at the research level.

With onrush of huge sellers and purchasers the market of fazli, king of mango, has gained momentum in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj districts, famous for mango production, on the last leg of the mango season.

Bangladesh failed to achieve its export target for last fiscal year (2012-13) having a shortfall of US$ 981.74 million although the export earnings witnessed 11.18 percent growth over the previous fiscal (2011-12).

Bangladesh and Belarus on Tuesday signed eight instruments, including two agreements and four Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs), aiming to strengthen economic and cultural relations between the two countries.

Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) on Monday urged the Turkish entrepreneurs to invest in the prospective sectors of Bangladesh including renewable energy, wind energy, infrastructure, tourism and pharmaceuticals.

The revenue target for Benapole land port for the current fiscal 2013-14 has been reduced to Tk 2,350 crore, which is 12 per cent less than that of the outgoing fiscal 2012-13.

The government has decided to provide subsidies and cash incentives to 14 export items, including readymade garments (RMG), vegetables, ships and light engineering products.

China’s national market regulatory agency says it is investigating possible abuse of market dominance by the food processing and packaging giant Tetra Pak, in a sign that China is widening its scrutiny of operations by foreign companies at home.

Japanese clothing chain Uniqlo will open its first two stores in the capital on Friday to attract the nation’s growing middle class, providing them with locally-produced high quality comfortable clothing at affordable prices.

Local community police detected high presence of formalin in the seasonal fruits put for sale at different shops in the city on Tuesday.

Some 60,000 Liquefied Petroleum (LP) gas users in Khulna region have expressed grave concern over the hike in its price just ahead of Ramadan.

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s government has extended the amnesty period till November 4 for legalization of illegal workers.

The Ministry of Commerce has said there will be no crisis of essentials during the holy month of Ramadan as the supply and import of those remained normal in the market ahead of Ramadan.

Voicing deep concern over the suspension of the Generalised System of Preference (GSP) facility to Bangladesh,  Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) has urged the US government to revive the privilege.

China is considering to expand preferential trade arrangements which will cover almost 95 percent of Bangladesh goods in addition to discussing the issue of rules of origin to reduce the trade imbalance.

More than what it means for ready-made garment exports to the US, the suspension of GSP by Washington has set off alarm bells for a different reason.

US Trade Representative Mike Froman has said that his country has no plan to restrict clothing import from Bangladesh to put extra pressure on the South Asian nation to improve its safety conditions for workers,

Experts have raised serious concerns about a recent government decision for allowing the imported poultry feeds to pass the customs check points without undergoing compulsory tests for antibiotics and melamine.