Importers will have to submit clearance certificate of their goods to the Bangladesh customs authorities for the import of food stuff including rice and wheat.
The traders who import fruits and fishes from other SAARC nations will also need to present radiation-free certificate in favour of their goods.
These compulsory provisions have been included in the country’s new import policy, the draft of which was finalised yesterday. The three-year policy will be placed at cabinet committee on economic affairs meeting this week for approval, said sources concernced.
A series of meetings with different stakeholders were held to prepare the draft drawing more than a hundred recommendations and proposals. The policy asks for ensuring the imported milk and other food items for children and adults are safe.
It suggests preventing import of 12 items and restricting import of 50 items including shrimp, poppy seed, furnace oil, industrial sugar, artificial soybean oil, fishing net, polyethylene bag, three-wheelers, micro-bus, mini-bus, jeep and equipment of motorcycle.
The banned items include not mentioned map of Bangladesh, chart, geographic global, import of terrorist books, newspaper, film, old types writers, phone, old computers, machine control air pollution. An entrepreneur can import capital machinery of $200,000 a year while one procure rice, pulse, onion, ginger, maize, soybean and fish from Myanmar of $50,000 annually and other items of $30,000.
The amount can be increased to $2m when the government will import rice from Myanmar.
Cows will be imported from the European Union countries with clearance certificate that the animals are disease-free from the countries of origin.