Imported at Tk 370, helmets sold for up to Tk 4,500
21 MIN(s) ago
Country’s fast-growing motorcycle fleet and rising fatality rates contrast with helmet imports declared at a fraction of their retail value
21 MIN(s) ago
Export rebound sputters out with 7% fall in May
4 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Shipments contracted to $4.40 billion last month, clouding prospects for a recovery in FY26
4 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Leather sector loses billions to compliance failures
1 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Bangladesh generates a significant share of the world’s raw leather each year, yet earns only a fraction of what the material is worth due to compliance failures and decades of neglected infrastructure, according to industry leaders.
1 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Business Plus / From toxic waste to industrial resource
23 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Bangladesh’s waste oil recycling industry is expanding, reducing imports and pollution
23 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Business leaders demand swift FBCCI polls
19 April 2026, 19:11 PM
They also called for a private-sector administrator, at a meeting with the commerce minister
19 April 2026, 19:11 PM
LPG supply security hinges on boosting storage capacity
19 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Bangladesh’s liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sector has grown rapidly, yet lacks the storage capacity to buffer itself against global market shocks, according to the president of the LPG Operators Association of Bangladesh (LOAB).
19 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Fuel crisis drives e-bike demand in Bangladesh
12 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Industry data shows a sharp increase in monthly sales of e-bikes just as the fuel crisis started
12 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Ecnec scraps one project, sends back another
7 April 2026, 00:00 AM
The new Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec), chaired by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, yesterday scrapped one development project and sent back another, which is located in the PM’s home district of Bogura, for cost review.
7 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Synthetic footwear exports on a roll
The shipment of synthetic footwear and sports shoes from Bangladesh grew 6.21 per cent year-on-year in July-May of the outgoing fiscal year thanks to shifting orders from China and the expanding capacity of manufacturers.
21 June 2023, 02:00 AM
‘Extended duty benefit to keep medicine prices in check’
The proposed budget has provided relief to pharmaceuticals manufacturers and patients as it retained duty-free import benefits for over 100 raw materials used in making life saving cancer, heart disease and diabetes drugs.
20 June 2023, 18:00 PM
Lending rate hike to fuel cost of doing business
Premier Cement Managing Director Mohammed Amirul Haque says
19 June 2023, 13:54 PM
Electrical equipment makers ignored
The proposed national budget for the next fiscal year does not address the interests of electrical equipment makers, which goes against the government’s aim of establishing Bangladesh as an industry-intensive nation, said an official.
18 June 2023, 02:30 AM
Flats, houses to be costlier
Flats and houses will become expensive as the government has increased the duties on basic construction materials such as cement, steel and tiles in the proposed budget, said a top executive of a real estate company.
16 June 2023, 02:30 AM
Electrical, electronic goods export surges
The shipment of electrical and electronics goods from Bangladesh displayed an impressive growth of 48 per cent in July-May of the outgoing financial year on the back of improving product quality and government support, official figures showed.
15 June 2023, 02:00 AM
Specific duty on crude oil imports a welcome move
Oil refiners in Bangladesh have welcomed the government’s specific duty proposed in the budget for the next fiscal year on the imports of crude oil.
11 June 2023, 18:00 PM
Textiles, RMG neglected in budget
The textile and garment sector, which earns the lion’s share of export proceeds, has been left neglected in the proposed budget, according to Shams Mahmud, a former president of the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
10 June 2023, 18:00 PM
Benefit extension for consumer electronics ‘encouraging’
The extension of existing benefits for local consumer electronics industries through the proposed national budget is very encouraging, said Golam Murshed, managing director and chief executive officer of Walton Hi-Tech Industries, yesterday.
8 June 2023, 18:00 PM
Leather and footwear export fall
The exports of leather footwear from Bangladesh declined 4.28 per cent year-on-year in July-May of the ongoing financial year owing to lower orders from Europe, the main market, official figures showed.
8 June 2023, 01:40 AM
Bangladesh pays first foreign bill in taka
Bangladesh has made the first payment for a mostly foreign loan-funded project in the taka, ushering in another mode of better preserving foreign currency reserves.
7 June 2023, 01:50 AM
Steel prices unlikely to cool down
The price of steel products is unlikely to decline in the coming days from its current record level as the budget for the upcoming fiscal year has not offered any benefit to the sector, said a top executive.
5 June 2023, 18:00 PM
Rise in clinker duty a burden on consumers
The increase of duty on the import of cement clinker by Tk 200 per tonne will have an adverse impact on the cost of production and put a burden on consumers, said Mohammad Iqbal Chowdhury, chief executive officer of LafargeHolcim Bangladesh Limited.
5 June 2023, 02:30 AM
State enterprises may see higher losses next fiscal year
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Bangladesh will likely incur collective losses of Tk 14,703 crore in the coming fiscal year, according to the finance ministry.
4 June 2023, 02:30 AM
Some respite for cancer patients
Manufacturers of cancer medicines will be able to sell the lifesaving drugs at reasonable prices after the National Board of Revenue (NBR) extended duty-free import benefits to 100 more raw materials used to make such products.
3 June 2023, 18:00 PM
It’s unrealistic, unattainable
The proposed budget for 2023-24 is unrealistic and unattainable as the challenges that caused the economic growth to decelerate, foreign exchange reserves to dip and inflation to surge in the past one year still persist, said economists and think-tanks.
1 June 2023, 18:00 PM
PHP now making decorative glass
PHP Float Glass Industries, a concern of PHP Family, started manufacturing decorative glass at its existing facility in Mirsharai, Chattogram earlier this month.
29 May 2023, 18:00 PM
Steel makers seek tax breaks
Steel makers in Bangladesh are seeking reduced import duty, value added tax (VAT) and other tariffs in the upcoming national budget to provide products at lower prices, meaning that construction costs would likely decrease.
28 May 2023, 18:00 PM
Dhaka to get four more 5-star hotels
Dhaka is set to welcome four new five-star rated hotels over the next three years as the growing influx of travellers has heightened the demand for luxury accommodation in Bangladesh.
24 May 2023, 02:00 AM
The cost of not getting gas
Delta Agro Food Industries, a joint venture of Seacom Group and Samuda Group, has set up a factory in Narayanganj at an investment of more than Tk 1,200 crore one and a half years ago.
23 May 2023, 03:00 AM