Bangladesh-India border trade resumes after impasse

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Cross-border trade between Bangladesh and India resumed Sunday night time when truckloads of Bangladeshi things streamed into India, said officials.

“Some Bangladeshi trucks have previously entered India with goods after a green light from the neighboring area, and similarly a few goods-laden Indian trucks also crossed into Bangladesh,” Md. Mamun Kabir Terafder, director of Bangladesh’s southwestern border interface Benapole, told Anadolu Firm Sunday evening.

After a far more than two-month closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, cross-border trade between your two South Asian neighbors resumed on June 7 at the port.

Since that time trucks with Indian things started coming in, but the Indian talk about of West Bengal barred Bangladeshi trucks, citing the pandemic risk.

Protesting the one-sided step, Bangladeshi exporters the other day declared a lockdown in Indian trucks and slot authorities executed the embargo to avert any untoward incidents.

“As both sides attended to a consensus to permit each other’s trucks, we resumed trade,” Terafder said, but only during daytime, he added.
Source: https://www.aa.com.tr

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