Leaders of BGMEA’s Chattogram region have urged authorities to simplify and speed up customs bond services to help maintain the global competitiveness of Bangladesh’s ready-made garment (RMG) industry.
The appeal was made at a view-exchange meeting held Tuesday evening at the BGMEA building in Chattogram with Chattogram Customs Bond Commissioner Md. Mahfuzul Haque Bhuiyan and senior officials.
Commissioner Mahfuzul Haque Bhuiyan said the RMG sector plays a vital role in the national economy by generating large-scale employment.
“We are committed to providing services quickly and efficiently. Efforts are underway to make customs bond procedures easier and faster. I assure you that existing complications will be resolved as soon as possible,” he said.
He added that any issues raised can be solved through mutual discussion between the Bond Commissionerate and BGMEA, and that the department is working with the NBR to address specific challenges, including discrepancies related to yard-weight-piece measurements.
BGMEA Director M.A. Salam said traders in Chattogram are facing difficulties and expressed hope that these issues would be resolved under the commissioner’s leadership.
BGMEA Vice-President Md. Rafiq Chowdhury requested speedy resolution of problems related to the revolving system for importing raw materials, faster approval of new IDFOBs and raw materials in bond licenses, simplification of annual audits, prevention of audit delays caused by weight-gauge-process-loss disputes, and an end to the imposition of 15% VAT on inter-bond transfers.
BGMEA Directors Md. Saif Ullah Mansur, Rakibul Alam Chowdhury, Anjan Shekhar Das, Mohammad Musa, and several other senior leaders were present at the meeting.
From the Customs Bond Commissionerate, Additional Commissioner Md. Gias Kamal, Joint Commissioner M.M. Kabirul Islam, and Deputy Commissioners Anupam Chakma, Abdullah Al Mamun, Mia Md. Nazmul Haque, and Sheikh Md. Masudur Rahman attended the discussion.
At the end of the meeting, BGMEA leaders welcomed the Customs Bond Commissioner with floral greetings.
