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Bangladesh may lose out garment exports to Africa

Due to the presence of biased obligation benefits, there is a chance that Bangladesh might find difficulties to compete with Africa nations to export garments to the U.S. Export of various garments to the US produced in African nations is increasing gradually with the zero-duty benefit under AGOA. This has been increased by 9.66% and reached $926.8 million in 2013, as stated by the US Department of commerce. Bangladesh is considered to be the most important country to export attires worth $5 billion per year to US by the payment of 15.61% duty. Garments exporters here had to pay worth $828 million as a duty to the customs of US in 2013 and a total of $3.41 billion in the past five years. Compared to the first 5 months export business of 2013, garment export to US by Bangladesh has decreased by 1.12% to$2.18 billion in this year. It is assumed that our competition will get tougher if African nations proceed this way to export to the US. The unfair duty system and expensive production c...

Good things about Bangladeshi companies including Beximco

When we think about good and big companies, we tend to think anything other than our national companies. However the truth is very contradictory to our assumptions. Many of Bangladeshi companies including Beximco Group, ACI, Concord Group, Navana Group, Pran Group have created big names for themselves in the past.   We sometimes forget their contributions for the nation. Many Bangladeshi companies are contributing in many business sectors such as poultry, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, aviation, automobiles, real-estate, clothing, media, textiles, garments etc. Companies like Beximco Group and Concord Group not only opened whole new sectors as pioneers for the country but also they opened up new job opportunity and research facilities. These places required more quantity of workers; that generally lead to more job specific courses in universities, resulting in general raise in literacy and also technicians of the country. Bashundhara Group alone has a worker amount of ...