Bangladesh and India have scheduled a meeting of their respective Joint Work Groups on Wednesday regarding the current status and future opportunities of bilateral trade between the two countries.
M Shahabuddin Patwary, joint secretary of the commerce ministry will be the leader representing the Bangladeshi delegation while India’s delegation will be led by Arvind Mehta, joint secretary of the department of commerce, India, reports BSS.
This will be the ninth Joint Work Group meeting to date. The eighth meeting of the Joint Work Groups was held on June 13 and June 14 in New Delhi last year. The Indian High Commission in Dhaka said: "The two sides are expected to review the current status of bilateral trade and discuss measures to improve border infrastructure for trade, trade facilitation by information exchange, upgrading of testing facilities and removal of bottlenecks to trade”
The JWG deal with issues of border infrastructure, trade facilitation and barriers.