Bangladesh Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed expresses need for market share in India

New Delhi, Jan. 14 (NsNewsWire ) — Bangladesh Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said that the country has expressed to get its share in the Indian market during the inauguration of the first border haat (market) in the Tripura-Bangladesh border here.

“We shall have to come to such a position where we can also take the share of the market of India. We are grateful to the Government of India that they have awarded us duty free, quota free market access in almost all the items except in two items – alcohol and tobacco,” Ahmed said.

“All the other items we can export to India without duty but in spite of that there is some trade barriers which are known as tariff and non-tariff barriers. I hope that with proper discussion of both the countries we will be able to remove this,” he added.

According to Ahmed, after getting liberation from Pakistan, Bangladesh has grown faster and the economy of the nation has moved far ahead, reports http://www.dnaindia.com.

“Economically we are going ahead, even in the social sectors which have been reported by news papers and researchers that we are far-far ahead of Pakistan. Once upon a time, Bangladesh was deprived to get its due share from Pakistan and that was one of the reason for our liberation to start. But today in various sectors especially social sector we are ahead of Pakistan,” said the Bangladeshi minister thanking India and its people for helping during its freedom struggle by proving place to live and as well as arms and force.

“We are always thankful to the government and people of India because during our liberation war we got all types of support. We got place to take refuge, arms to fight and all help required. That is why our national leader Bangabandhu as sign of gratitude after coming out of Pakistan jail he via London went to Delhi before coming to his mother land on 10th January 1972,” said the minister.

“The Bangladesh parliament has already ratified the India-Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement but the Indian parliament is yet to endorse the deal,” he added.

He was addressing after the joint inauguration of the ‘Border Haat’ along with his Indian counterpart Nirmala Sitharaman in the presence of thousands of people of both the neighbouring nations.

The Bangladesh minister assured that his country is considering for allowing India to use the Chittagong port for either transit or transshipment.