Bangla traders suspend Burma ties

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Bangla traders suspend Burma ties

The Asian Age (New Delhi)
July 30, 2000

Dhaka, July 29: Bangladeshi traders have kept border trade with Burma
through the Teknaf route virtually suspended for a week now, protesting
a new order issued by Bangladesh Rifles, traders said.
Only small quantities of perishable goods are being traded now, they
said. Under the new order, traders have to produce copies of an export
declaration given by the Burma Customs Department and an export license
given by the Department of Border Trade at the check post during
transportation of goods.
The traders termed it "harassment" and an "encroachment" on customs
authorities' turf by the BDR and demanded uninterrupted transportation
of goods after completion of customs formalities at Teknaf. They said
the chairman of the Bangladesh-Myanmar Business Promotion Council,
Rashed Moksud Khan, sent a letter to the Commerce Ministry yesterday
seeking its intervention in resolving the deadlock by withdrawing the
BDR order.
(India Abroad News Service)