The Hindu Business Line : Indo-Bangla Customs meet

At the two-day meeting of the joint group of Bangladesh-India Customs held in Dhaka recently, the Indian delegation assured Bangladesh that the work on infrastructure development would soon begin at all land ports in India to ease the difficulties being faced by exporters from Bangladesh and other neighbouring countries.

The meeting also resolved to further extend the areas of cooperation between the Customs authorities of the two countries and hold meetings at regular intervals - at the assistant commissioner level every month, joint commissioner level every six months and at a still higher level annually.

However, if the report appearing in a section of newspapers in Bangladesh is to be believed, the Indian side declined to withdraw a four per cent special countervailing duty that India slapped on imports to India from Bangladesh and also to introduce a reciprocal arrangement for trucks entering into one country from the other.

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