Our export to India
We are very much intrigued at the news that appeared in your daily captioned "Delhi's term too difficult for Dhaka." The Indo-Bangla Chambers joint study revealed a frustrating picture of Bangladesh export to India. The Bangladeshi exporters have to obtain ISI certificate from the Indian Standard Institute for which numerous steps have to be crossed through. The exporters of Bangladesh have to submit factory plan, design, layout plan, production flow, road map leading to airport or railway stations etc. Besides all these documents, the BIS officials will visit the export unit concerned to assess the viability etc. These conditions reveal a negative attitude by India to thwart Bangladesh export to the country. It is clearly an attempt to discourage the exporters of Bangladesh to export to India. After all what is the need for all those conditions of production plan, factory plan, layout, production equipments, flow chart, road map etc.
We never heard of any country in the world setting such conditions in matters of import of their products. Has India set those conditions to import from other countries of the world as well?
How much foreign exchange Bangladesh will earn by exporting to India as against their huge volume of exports to us which amounts to over a billion dollar without any conditions set for our bulk quantity of imports from India? The government should reconsider our position on the issue.
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