INCIDIN Bangladesh, an NGO organized a press briefing on 'Sixth World Trade Organisation's Ministerial Meet in Hong Kong - expectation and reality' at the Dhaka Reporters Unity, in the city yesterday.
The government should search out avenues for trade in the next World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting scheduled for March next year, said the speakers at the briefing.
Nasimul Ahsan, Advocacy Chief of the organisation, said Bangladesh has registered marginal rise in exports. It has relied on few items like frozen foods and garments for the same. He suggested that Bangladesh should continue to get preferential trade benefits in developed countries.
He had reservations on the proposal, that least developed nations should allow developed nations to open manufacturing units and duty-free market access, mainly agriculture products and garments, put forward at the last Hong Kong WTO talks. He apprehended the country may lose its main exporting markets in near future.
Leather industry is losing its duty free market access in the international market, opined AKM Mustaque Ali, Executive Director of INCIDIN. Rafiqul Alam Khan, Policy Analyst, Ahmed Borhan, Tariqul Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahman, Rita Das among others, were present on the occasion.
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