Bangladesh exported goods worth $35million or 0.72 per cent of the total to the USA under its Generalised System of Preference programme.
‘As per the statistics of United States International Trade Commission programme Bangladesh’s total amount of export to the USA was $4,878million in 2012. Of the items, goods worth $35million was exported to the USA under the Generalised
System of Preference (GSP) facility,’ commerce minister Golam Mohammad Quader said replying to a tabled question of treasury bench member Nurul Islam in the parliament on Sunday.
To another question from treasury bench member M Abdul Latif, the minister said the government had taken measures to create new markets of readymade garments abroad.
A time-befitting export policy (2012-2015) to bringqualitative change in export trade and ensure a competitive edge in the risky world trade has already been made, he said adding the government took part in nine international trade fairs organised by Export Promotion Bureau in the fiscal year 2011-12 aimed at expanding the RMG markets worldwide.
Quader said steps had also been taken to take part in the international trade fairs in Russia, South Africa, Japan, Brazil, China, India, South Korea and send delegations there to explore market.
-With New Age input
