ANNOUNCEMENT 25 Nov 2013

In November 2013, the government of Bangladesh announced a change in import duties.

NUMBER OF INTERVENTIONS

1

  • 0 harmful
  • 0 neutral
  • 1 liberalising

SOURCE



Financial Express, November 26, 2013, 'NBR lowers newsprint import duty to 5.0pc': http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2013/11/26/5901


Inception date: 25 Nov 2013 | Removal date: open ended

Import tariff

Effective as of November 25, 2013, Bangladesh's National Board of Revenue (NBR) halved the import duty on newsprint from 10% to 5% in order to provide relief to the print media. According to the newspaper Financial Express of Bangladesh, the Statutory Regulatory Order (SRO) has been issued but not yet been published.

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