Bangladesh will hand over a list of its products for zero-tariff access to the Indian market as India’s prime minister Manmohan Singh announced trade concession to least developed countries of SAARC. In a post-SAARC summit briefing on April 8, the foreign affairs adviser, Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, welcomed the decision of Manmohan Singh.

Apart from announcing zero-tariff duty on the export products from the least developed countries in the region, during the April 3-4 SAARC summit, Manmohan also said his country would reduce the number of items on its sensitive list of products.

Terming the Fakhruddin-Manmohan meeting productive, foreign affairs adviser said that we have raised three of Bangladesh’s concerns — no demarcation of more than 6.5km boundary, sharing the Teesta waters and India’s Tipaimukh dam, and tariffs on Bangladeshi exportable goods.