The Commerce Secretary of India is expected to visit Bangladesh’s capital city Dhaka by the end of March to take part in the Bangladesh-India Commerce Secretary level meeting to be held in Dhaka.
This is as per media reports which citing the sources claimed Bangladesh has already sent invitation to Indian authority in this regard and is expecting consent from the official concerned soon, while also adding a host of trade-related issues, including Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), ensuring supply chain of essential commodities, lifting of anti-dumping duty on Bangladeshi jute and jute products, withdrawal of export ban on some Bangladeshi products, etc., would come up for discussion during the upcoming Commerce Secretary level meeting.
It may be mentioned here that a joint feasibility study was carried out on CEPA following the decision taken at the last Commerce Secretary-level meeting of both the countries, held in New Delhi in March last year even as the joint feasibility study reportedly suggested CEPA would provide a sound basis for substantial enhancement of trade and commercial partnership between Bangladesh and India.