Bangladesh has urged the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to make arrangement for recruitment of the country’s manpower under the Common Product Classification (CPC) on a priority basis. A senior official of the WTO Cell of the commerce ministry said the negotiation for recruitment of manpower under some broad categories by the developed countries from the least developed countries (LDCs) has now been continuing. On completion of successful negotiation, Bangladesh could send manpower under the categories of professional, business visit, contractual service and others, the commerce ministry source told on May 13.

“We submitted our recommendations to the WTO to select the CPC category for manpower import from Bangladesh March 28, 2006 last,” he said. He said if Bangladesh sends manpower to the developed countries under the International Labour Organisation (ILO) rules, it will be able to send the people only under 160 types of jobs. “But if Bangladesh follows WTO’s CPC rules, it can send manpower under more than 1600 types of jobs,” he said.