Bangladesh to take steps to narrow trade gap with US

Commerce Adviser Sk Bashir Uddin said that Bangladesh would take steps to narrow the trade gap with the US by increasing imports and removing non-tariff barriers.

He said this while addressing journalists after an emergency meeting with Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Saturday evening (April 8).

Stating that the letter sent to the US administration to add 100 more products to the duty-free list, will have a positive impact, the adviser said, "Our main issue is reducing the trade deficit. We are working on it."

In reply to another question, regarding the answer from US, he said no we didn’t receive any response yet.