Bangladesh Jute Goods Association (BJGA) placed a number of demands to the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) on Thursday for taking necessary steps to meet the same.
Members of the executive committee of the BJGA, headed by its chairman Kamrul Islam Khan Monem, put forth their demands when they called on Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed at his secretariat office.
The demands are: cash incentive facility, providing commercially important person (CIP) awards to the members of the BJGA, withdrawal of imposed VAT (value added tax) on licence fee and removing existing barriers to jute sack export to the Indian market.
"The commerce minister assured the association members of settling the issues during the meeting and the ministries concerned will be informed about the issues through letters from the MoC," Chairman of BJGA told the FE after the meeting.
Senior secretary of the MoC Hedayetullah Al-Mamoon was present at the meeting.
Presently, the country's jute mills get cash incentive facility against its export of jute products. But the members of BJGA are deprived of such facility despite their significant contribution to the country's export trade. The association members also can't apply to the government for CIP awards, sources concerned said.
Besides, it is not possible to export of jute sack to the Indian market due to various non-tariff barriers. Indian importers of the item placed the problems to the commerce minister to solve the issue during his recent visit to the neighbouring country, they said.
There are more than 300 members of the BJGA which was established in 1970.
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Jute goods assoc places several demands to MoC
FE Report | Published: January 23, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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