Bangladesh has been assured by Japan of its support in getting duty free access of Bangladeshi products in the world market at World Trade Organizations (WTO) meet.
The assurance came when Masayuki Inoue, the Japanese Ambassador met with Commerce Minister Hafiz Uddin Ahmed at his office.
Ahmed urged the ambassador to find out ways of importing more products from his country to reduce the trade gap that is prevalent between these two nations.
He suggested that Japan can imports items like jute, jute goods, leather, leather goods, readymade garments and tea.
Exports to Japan from Bangladesh include commodities such as shrimp, leather, jute goods, readymade garments, frozen foods, knitwear, raw jute and handicrafts while it imports items like machinery, electric equipment, vehicles, garments and spare parts of garment industries and so on.
Just to emphasize the trade imbalance between the two countries, Bangladesh export was worth US $122.41 million while the import was at staggering US $547.15 million.
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