‘GSP issue to be included in TICFA agenda’

US Ambassador in Dhaka Dan W Mozena on Thursday said restoration of the Generalised System of Preference (GSP) will be included in the agenda of discussion in the upcoming meeting of the Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement (TICFA) next week. Addressing the annual general meeting of the International Business Forum of Bangladesh (IBFB) at Sonargaon Hotel in the city, he said TICFA will include in a discussion of efforts underway in Bangladesh to bring about restoration of Bangladesh’s GSP trade privileges in the United States. “These efforts are largely synonymous with Bangladesh’s campaign to transform the apparel sector to bring worker safety and labour rights to international standards in the wake of Rana Plaza building collapse and Tazreen Fashions fire,” Mozena told the function. Finance Minister AMA Muhith was the chief guest at the function. State Minister for Finance and Planning MA Mannan, FBCCI President Kazi Akram Uddin Ahmed, IBFB founder Mahmudul Islam Chowdhury and IBFB president Hafizur Rahman Khan also spoke at the function, according to a news agency.