Bangladesh’s political situation and the security alert issued by the US embassy have not created any “negative” impact on bilateral trade. “I can tell you that the bilateral trade has increased by 8.5 percent in 2015. It’s a pretty substantial growth. It’s even faster than the rate of economic growth (in Bangladesh) as a whole,” Daniel Keen, economic officer of the US embassy, said on Tuesday.
He said the US mission was getting more queries from American companies on doing business in Bangladesh now than before due to the “awareness” that there is a “strong economic” growth here in Bangladesh.
“The rate of trade and goods is going faster. That means that it has not been negatively impacted,” he said, replying to a question at a press briefing in Dhaka on Tuesday, according to a news agency
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Source: The Financial Express