Unctad to help BD get facilities from WTO: Tofail

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Sunday said United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) will help Bangladesh get facilities it ought to have from World Trade Organisation (WTO) as a least development country. ‘From now on, Unctad will help Bangladesh realise the facilities it deserves from WTO as a least development country,’ the minister said while talking to journalists after a meeting with Unctad Secretary General Dr Mukhisa Kituyi at his office at the Secretariat. As per WTO rules, the USA did not give Bangladesh quota-free market access, Tofail said adding that many countries give Bangladeshi products duty-free access. ‘The countries which imposed much conditions, didn’t give us duty-free access. I’ve no hesitation to frankly say that the USA should have given us the duty-and quota-free market access. We’ve given them 5 billion dollar as revenue in the last five years, but we didn’t get duty-and quota-free market access,’ he added, according to UNB.