Joining TPP would promote Bangladesh
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The US ambassador in Dhaka Dan Mozena hoped on Saturday that Bangladesh would explore the possibility of joining the Asia-Pacific grouping–Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – ‘vigorously’ in its effort to be a middle-income country.
“I believe joining TPP would promote Bangladesh as a huge player in the global market -- pharmaceuticals, finished leathers, jutes and many other items,” he said as he believed that Bangladesh would be able to take full advantage of the grouping using the potentials of its young generation.
The ambassador was speaking at a seminar on “United States-Bangladesh Relations with Special Reference to Security in the Bay of Bengal” jointly organised by US embassy and the Centre for East Asia Foundation in Dhaka.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a regional trade agreement being negotiated between 12 Pacific Rim countries – Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and the United States.
He said once joined in this block, Bangladesh’s export would receive a ‘huge boost’.
Chaired by former ambassador M Humaiyun Kabir, the seminar was attended, among others, by former education minister Dr Osman Faruk, DG of Bangladesh Coast Guard Rear Admiral Kazi Sarwar Hossain and senior journalist Sadek Khan.
Dr Atiur Rahman of Dhaka University’s Political Science Department presented the keynote paper.
The ambassador said Bangladesh was a maritime country like America and its economic wellbeing highly depends on seas.
Most of Bangladeshi exporters use the sea to export to America, Europe and other points round the world and similarly the Bangladeshi importers use the sea, he said, stressing on maintaining security for the trade’s sake.
He said Bangladesh should enhance capacity to protect maritime resources and form a special force for the maritime domain.
He termed the US-Bangladesh partnership ‘at its all-time high’ and said it has never been “deeper, broader and stronger than it is at this moment”.
Source: bdnews24
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