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Awami govt proved again - they are indian stooges

Containers are not used to import food and grains which are bulk of the imports from india. These containers will be used for pushing indian industrial goods, motor bikes, bikes, yarns etc. All of these are competitors to Bangladesh own industries. So your recipe and indian thinking are in alignment, that is - low import cost of indian goods will destroy Bangladesh light engineering and textile industry. Indo and Awami stooge mission accomplished.


Buddy...if there is a market...if there is a demand...somebody will capture it...someone will supply what market demands....
So stop shouting....if India goods are imported...GOB would be getting Duty on that...and will earn revenue...which would be used in Bangladesh Development...so why whine....

I know I have wasted time here...but what the heck...
 
Buddy...if there is a market...if there is a demand...somebody will capture it...someone will supply what market demands....
So stop shouting....if India goods are imported...GOB would be getting Duty on that...and will earn revenue...which would be used in Bangladesh Development...so why whine....

I know I have wasted time here...but what the heck...

Stop bs and nonesense here, just like so many indians did before you. indians markets demands lots of Bangladeshi goods, lots of Srilankan goods, lots of Pakistani goods. Allow free flow from others before jumping here with lecture.

And tax revenue is not alternative to destruction of indutries and loss of millions of jobs.

Oh lose the "buddy" bit, its awkwardly indian tone.
 
Buddy....any goods are welcome...its a free market.....go ahead ....export to India ...Pay the duties and do your business..... and make money for your country....

But the question here is that can you do that....
 
Containers are not used to import food and grains which are bulk of the imports from india. These containers will be used for pushing indian industrial goods, motor bikes, bikes, yarns etc. All of these are competitors to Bangladesh own industries. So your recipe and indian thinking are in alignment, that is - low import cost of indian goods will destroy Bangladesh light engineering and textile industry. Indo and Awami stooge mission accomplished.
So, tell the trade ministry to enact laws to stop Indian jet planes, rockets, rocket launchers, ships, missiles, satellites, motor cars, auto-bikes, sewing machines, industrial machineries and many other hi-tech goods from being imported into BD. By the way, who told you about these hi-tech goods?

What the container freight has to do with the policy of the trade ministry? It is the communications ministry that does not want heavier containers over the bridge for the safety of this bridge, that's all. Do you want another bridge to be built just for Indian freight trains? Then ask your mentor RAW to fund that project.
 
Buddy....any goods are welcome...its a free market.....go ahead ....export to India ...Pay the duties and do your business..... and make money for your country....

But the question here is that can you do that....
Buddy only if your GOVT's did was similar to your talk then there wouldn't be any Idune here. There is a prevalent joke in BD about Indian dalals, who likes to obey the verdict of the judge only if the judge hands the big tree to those pseudo-Rawamy-dalaler Bacchas :cheesy:. Similarly free market and nicety of globalization has become the choruses of Indians only after their nationalistic credo has been deeply planted in their minds, making sure of industrial reach surpassing neighbors after long isolation and confirming militaristic superiority over others in this hemisphere. Let us bridge those skills gap, will ya before drinking more of your free market daru?
 
In another stooge move Awami govt removing poultry import ban that had been in place for last 17 years to protect against disease and assymetric indian trade agression. Now by allowing import of indian one year old chick not only Bangladesh poultry industry will be at risk but also people will be exposed to bird flu from across borders. This is further proving the point that Awami League stooge govt elected with indian blessing and working welfare of indians at cost of bangladeshis

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Ban on chick import goes after 17 years
Poultry farmers fear negative impact on industry

Asif Showkat

The government has lifted the 17-year-old ban on import of day-old chicks to stabilize the local chicken market, official sources said.The commerce ministry on Thursday issued a circular, allowing 17 local firms, to import day-old chicks as the prices of the poultry in the past few months showed upward trend, said a senior official.

He said withdrawal of restriction on the import, imposed in 1992 to protect local poultry farms from bird-flu, is expected to reduce the price of chicken in the local market.The 17 local trading firms have been allowed to import a total of 8 crore 37 lakh pieces of day-old chicken.

Bangladesh Poultry Industry Association president Syed Abu Siddique, however, told New Age on Thursday that lifting of ban would hurt the country’s poultry industry. Siddique alleged that the commerce ministry lifted the ban without having discussions the industry.

He said that the commerce ministry took the decision when the price of the local day-old chick declined. Bangladesh Poultry Khamar Rakka Jatiya Sangram Paishad’s general secretary Khandokar Mohammad Mohsin told New Age that the importer would not be able to import day-old chick from India as it was not yet free from bird flu.

‘Bird flu was found in India last August and chick import from that country would risk our poultry industry of getting the virus,’ he added.At present, day-old chick in the local market costs Tk 16 to 17 while it was Tk 35 only a month ago.

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PM for stronger defences | Politics | bdnews24.com


PM FOR STRONGER DEFENCES
Wed, Dec 23rd, 2009 9:10 pm BdST

Dhaka, Dec 23 (bdnews24.com) ・Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has said the country's armed forces will be further strengthened, while maintaining good relations with neighbouring countries.

She also urged the armed forces to remain alert against any threat to the country's security, in a speech at the 11th graduation ceremony of the National Defence College at Mirpur Cantonment on Wednesday.

"I hope you'll always be engaged in collecting and analysing information," the prime minister said.

The prime minister said, "Bangladesh has succeeded combating terrorism while the blame of militancy is also washed away.

"Terrorism and militancy, which violate human rights and hit humanity, are bars to the development of many countries. These days, it's not possible to keep eyes closed when the sovereignty of a country is under threat."

Hasina said, "No country can run alone these days. The situation now is that everyone has to move with cooperation of the others.

HASINA CLAIMS 'CLEAN SLATE'

Regarding her government's first year, the prime minister said, "None could lodge a complaint of corruption against any minister in this time," which she termed the 'maximum success' story.

Mentioning her government's strict stand against corruption, Hasina said, "We'll continue the anti-corruption drives. Corruption bars the development of a country's economy."

"The government is sincerely working for the socio-economic development of the country."

"We've work together to fight poverty," she urged.

The prime minister said, "Trial of the war criminals will be launched immediately while those involved in BDR mutiny and killing will also be tried."

Regarding her recent participation in the Copenhagen Climate Conference she said, "In the conference I highlighted the situation of vulnerable countries where I also demanded for raising an international fund for the affected countries to fight the situation."
 
YEAR IN REVIEW,

2010 dawns with serious concerns for economy, sovereignty

The first light of 2010 ushers in the arrival of a new year and a new decade. It, however, comes with legacies of the two-year long emergency rule, a controversial election, and, severe negative impacts on the nation's economy, its armed forces and the sovereignty.

Besides, the year 2009 witnessed further weakening and fragmentation of our major political parties and other institutions like the ACC while the intense sense of pride we so far possessed as a nation of 150 million strong monoliths has begun to waver.

There are those who might find such characterisation as sweeping generalisations, but they may find themselves wrong-footed in the end. Fact remains: Nation's borders are perfunctorily guarded since the grisly BDR massacre in February 2009 while trade imbalance with India has soared well past US$3 billion. Added to the unaccounted for data generated by huge influx of Indian goods into the country through smuggling (worth nearly $ 8 billion, according to some estimates), the trade imbalance with India must be measured by tripling or quadrupling the official data.

Faltering economy
Moreover, 2009 witnessed alarming reduction in the export of RMG (by nearly 28 per cent), while the increased flow of remittance remains a mismatch with the ground reality portrayed by the huge number of workers returning home each day and the reduced number of new workers going abroad.

The consequent closing of about 151 garment factories lately, and further shrinking of employment opportunities in other sectors of the economy, has left millions more unemployed, making Dhaka and other major cities further problem ridden due to exodus from villages of an ever-growing army of unemployed, resulting in multiplication of the instances of crime and other anti-social activities.

Yet, demonic attempts to depict rosier pictures by sleight of hands continue unabated. One such news is the increased remittance from wage earners, which is nonsense in reality. Various anti-terrorism and money laundering laws in all nations, including ours, having ensured strict compliance of official remittance, resulting in more and more remittance coming via financial institutions and making the data look bigger and brighter, the gains were expected and palpable. Upon close inspection, one however finds that the data on increased remittance fail to correlate positively with other allied variables (the number of workers returning home and the massive unemployment in the source countries), leaving no room for solace or celebration.

Also observable is, whatever foreign investment had trickled down to the economy has had little impact on employment creation, and the government did precious little either to improve that picture. According to BB statistics, net FDI was $207 million in July to October period (which was $402 million in the same period a year ago) while portfolio investment dropped by $29 million in the first quarter of the current fiscal, compared to $7 million drop in concurring period of the previous fiscal.

The overall growth trajectory has stymied further due to the investment-GDP ratio remaining as yet below 25 per cent, in comparison to 45 per cent in China and 36 per cent in India. And, employment opportunities are further dampened by average annual growth of gross capital formation being, on average, 8.6 per cent (2000-2007) only, against China's 13.4 per cent and India's 15.1 per cent.

The rosy picture of economic successes also belie the ADB report of 2008 that had placed Bangladesh as the second lowest nation in terms public investment-GDP ration among 44 Asia-Pacific countries.

Trade gap with India $3.016 billion
Above all, the year witnessed bilateral ties with India transforming from 'sovereign equality to hegemonic partnership'. In fiscal 2007-08, exports to India stood at only $358.08 million against imports worth $3.375 billion, leaving a whopping trade gap of $3.016 billion. The ever galloping trade imbalance is a matter of serious concern for a number of reasons.

First, the imbalance does not indicate the existence of any pragmatic trade pattern prevailing between the two neighbours. For example, Canada is by far the largest trading partner of the US, accounting for 20% of all U.S. international trade. Although the US is 300 million strong while Canadian population is yet to cross the 35 million mark, the US carries the burden of larger trade deficit with Canada, despite Canada having imported $261.2 billion worth of goods from the USA in 2008 alone.

Same is the case with another poorer neighbour of the US, Mexico. In 2007, U.S. trade deficit within NAFTA alone (Canada & Mexico) surpassed $116 billion while in 2008, the deficit rose to $143 billion. These data shows one thing for certain: bigger economies have bigger deficits with neighbours under liberalized trade regimes, not vice a versa.

Decaying RMG sector
That fundamental principal having been amiss in the Indo-Bangladesh ties, more so in 2009, our economy may never bounce back unless the 'India factor' is addressed with courage and determination. Especially since early 2009, the mainstay of our export, the RMG sector-which accounts for over 70 per cent of total export earning-has been badly mauled and debilitated by hidden and transparent Indian interventions.

Contrary to much publicised reasoning by certain quarters, the gradual weakening of the RMG sector did not come about due only to reduced demands from buyers abroad, it has a regional factor to blame. That fault line must be identified sooner, as some latest data shows, apparel export revenue fell to $814 million in September, posting a 27 per cent decline from the same month of 2008. On the other hand, according to the Export Promotion Bureau's statistic, apparel exports fell cumulatively (between July-September 2009) by $325 million, in comparison with earnings in the first quarter of the previous fiscal.

More ominously, from January to September 2009, total earning from RMG export stood at only $2.66 billion, indicating clearly that, once released, final data of fiscal 2009-10 is bound to show more gloomy pictures due to total export earning in the first two months of the current fiscal (2008-2009) having registered only $2.81 billion, down from $2.9 billion during the corresponding period of the previous fiscal.

Economic hegemony
Now look deeply why and how it happened. Since the beginning of the bygone decade, India began to feel alarmed by the rise of our RMG sector. And, as Bangladesh stood poised to overtake India by 2008 (India fetched only $2.27 billion between Jan-September 2009 from RMG export, which is less than Bangladesh), India began to set up industries in Bangladesh to blunt our competitive edges upon installation of an overly-India-friendly regime in early 2009.

Three distinct reasons worked behind such a hegemonic move. First, Bangladesh has a cost edge over India of 9-29 per cent across various products. Secondly, it has duty-free access to EU markets which India does not, and, finally, the labour is much cheaper than in India.

All these niches prompted prominent Indian RMG manufactures-like the House of Pearl Fashions and the Raymond group-to install their factories in Bangladesh while at least seven other companies are slated to move soon to take over a huge chunk of our RMG market. Meanwhile, the trend facilitated more import of Indian raw materials for those industries, which shoved out of business many of our indigenous textile factories.

Besides, as products from these foreign companies are sold under our country tag-while the cost of import of inputs and profit/capital repatriation ate away much of the benefits that our government expected to gain from such foreign investments-the dividend to our economic basket proved marginal or none.

Telecom link with North-East
Added to Indian proposed intrusions into the thriving telecommunication market and the decision to link up sub-marine cable communications with India's North-East via Cox's Bazaar, Indian total share of our market economy could overshoot $50 billion by 2012, inclusive of the proposed investment worth $5 billion in the nine power projects (and a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal), for which the botched road show in Europe could not generate any hope on one hand as it was stained by a series of kickback allegations between our energy officials and Chevron, the US oil conglomerate.

Amidst this, despite cautions from experts that Bangladesh will soon turn into a virtual appendage of the Indian economy, some of our economic policy makers kept behaving like an ostrich in the desert sand. On December 16-17, a selective team of officials from the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) visited India to study both private and state-owned coal power projects to arrange import of electricity from India, despite India being so power deficit that it imports from Bhutan about 13,000 MW of electricity per day to meet peak hour power shortages.

Thus, one of the most lamentable jokes of the year 2009 was the proud utterances of Alamgir Kabir, chairman of BPDB, when he said a few days back that "Bangladesh plans to import up to 1,200 MW of electricity from India by the middle of 2012."

Hoaxes and mirages
These hoaxes and mirages aside, time has come to ponder seriously why India plans to deploy a 50-member strong special force to guard its diplomatic compounds in Dhaka. One plausible reason may be, India has establishments to guard in Bangladesh and the numbers are growing. Or, is it?

From a strategic perspective, the move looks akin to what Delhi has been doing in Afghanistan since its military and material helps to the so called Northern Alliance forces managed to overthrow the Taliban regime in 2001, in cohort with the USA. The war in Bangladesh, however, was fought with ballot; that's the only difference.

One wonders why India currently maintains seven consular offices in Afghanistan, where hundreds of military staff work in disguise as development workers, according to reports. Some experts fear, India will militarily trounce and overrun Pakistan once the Pakistan military gets further bogged down and demoralized in the ongoing civil war with its own insurgents.

Any gain-loss for Pakistan aside, how different are we, until now, compared with Afghanistan? Despite Dhaka's denial that it had not been approached officially by Delhi with the proposal to bring security forces to guard its chancery, foreign secretary Mijarul Quayes said on December 28 that "the Indian High Commission in Dhaka could deploy additional security personnel within its chancery premises if such deployment does not constitute violation of Bangladesh's domestic laws."

Well said. We may not be quite sure how our Foreign Office mandarins want to interpret laws relating to diplomatic protections, but we know for certain that these laws have originated from a series of Geneva Conventions, making it incumbent on the host government to ensure safety and security of foreign diplomats stationed within any country's geographic boundary. Besides, the Indian mission in Dhaka never faced any attack in Dhaka, as it did in Kabul on July 7, 2008, in which 58 people were reportedly killed.

That is precisely why, in this maiden dawn of a new decade, we are increasingly concerned that none of our polite objections have so far deterred India from doing anything it wanted to do inside Bangladesh since coming to power of the AL-led government early this year.
While that misfortune is a making of our own, we should not cease to move stridently to forestall any Indian move to bring armed security forces within our territory from other countries, on the pretext that they too have intelligence to suggest risk of danger from militant Islamists.

HOLIDAY > FRONT PAGE
 
Stop bs and nonesense here, just like so many indians did before you. indians markets demands lots of Bangladeshi goods, lots of Srilankan goods, lots of Pakistani goods. Allow free flow from others before jumping here with lecture.

And tax revenue is not alternative to destruction of indutries and loss of millions of jobs.

Oh lose the "buddy" bit, its awkwardly indian tone.

you are sounding silly hare.......if you care about local companies...your concerns are welcome but if we go by your logic there will be no trade around the world because every country will have local companies that produce the same goods as that are being imported.

besides if you have enough products to export to india we do welcome it but the point is are you producing stuff that have a competitive edge over indian products -if you do am sure your companies will find a market for your products otherwise we cant just import your products for just the sake of buying them.....

our companies are exporting them to bangladesh because their products have a competitive edge in quality and costs over your companies....
p.s -i believe you will have the same anger of your companies losing market because of cheep goods from china...if not you are just here for india bashing!
 
In apparent bid to destroy Bangladesh Poultry industry, Awami indian stooge govt removed decade old ban on poultry import and threatening Bangladesh poultry industry and livelihood of million of Bangladeshis.

Not only that this Awami stooge act opens door for bird flu like epidemic to spread from india to Bangladesh.


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Import of Indian eggs, chicks threatens poultry industry

Staff Correspondent

Allowing imports of day-old chicks and eggs from India may open the way for flooding Bangladesh market with such Indian products at the cost of the country’s growing poultry industry.

Expressing the apprehension, leaders of local poultry industry said such imports might also heighten the risks of avian influenza or bird flu in view of an outbreak of the disease in India in recent months.

They said it was unfortunate that withdrawal of the restrictions on imports of both eggs and day-old chicks coincided with the efforts by the domestic poultry farmers to recover the losses they incurred due to bird flu effects.

The government has of late lifted a ban on import of day-old chicks and given 17 companies import permits following another decision to withdraw the ban on imports of eggs from India.

‘The government should rather consider providing subsidy to farmers instead of allowing imports that may harm our growing industry,’ said Syed Abu Siddique, president of Poultry Industry Association. He said that the Indian government provided cash incentive for exports in addition to subsidy to poultry industry.

While local industry leaders opposed lifting ban on poultry imports, small farmers complained about an increase in the price of day-old chicks by big poultry farms taking advantage of the limited supply.

‘A section of small farmers like us have lost at least Tk 12 lakh during the Eid due to scarcity of chicks and their high prices,’ said Yusuf Hossain, a poultry farmer of Nagarpur in Tangail. They demanded more supply of day-old chicks and breaking the monopoly of the suppliers.

However, the poultry association chief said the price of day-old chicks would come down significantly in March when production was expected to reach its peak following recovery from bird flu.

He said that Bangladesh’s poultry industry could not afford to sustain another bird flu outbreak and that the risks were higher when poultry chicks would be imported from India which had positive bird flu cases even in August.

A high official at the fisheries and livestock ministry sought to allay the bird flu fears saying that importers would be able to import chicks from any country and that they would need clearance certificate for importing the chicks.

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No sooner Hasina steeped into indian soil Awami stooges busy showring indian master with more gift. But offcource at cost of Bangladeshi resource and interest.

This time Awami stooge govt planning to import 100 indian junk bus.
Few days back Awami stooges govt opened indian import of poultry and effectively took steps to destroy Bangladeshi industry.

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Let them believe in AL, Let them face the hell coming. Otherwise they are not wise enough to understand what could be the consequence of believe in AL. They will get the result according to which govt (AL) they support. May be after 10 years.

Why you and I have concern about it? Let give time to AL govt to harm BD if BD people can not understand what is good for them. So they deserve the bad consequence of believing in AL govt.

So my recommend is to wait up to next election and see what BD people want again. Definitely, we cannot change BD people's mind if they support AL govt. So wait for few years to observe the BD people's want.
I think time will say against AL govt if they are evil. Otherwise what can we do but fetch out the evil deeds of AL govt right now.
 
buddy, there are other new threads going on. i will request you to just go through them.
 
buddy, there are other new threads going on. i will request you to just go through them.

you are telling this to the wrong people......people with the attitude"we are here for india bashing" actually i guess its more of awami bashing ...it might be that they are staunch supporters or people with vested interests of BNP .....
 
Buddy...if there is a market...if there is a demand...somebody will capture it...someone will supply what market demands....
So stop shouting....if India goods are imported...GOB would be getting Duty on that...and will earn revenue...which would be used in Bangladesh Development...so why whine....

I know I have wasted time here...but what the heck...

Dude , seriously , you have been here for much longer than i have. Haven't you still understood the mentality of these kind of people. They are above reproach , u know. No use talking to them in a conscillatory tone. Even if god descends to earth and tells themthat they are wrong , they still wont believe it . You are right , you did waste your time
 

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