Its very stupid idea to charge Custom Duties on Indian Goods going to India. If these people think, those Goods would not be shipped to India and would be sold in BD, what we can do is charge Custom Duty at the Point of Entrance and they give their Cheques back, when those Goods leave BD Border if BD has Labor Shortage and Government can not supervise such shipments. Do we really have Labor Shortage?
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In violation of UN Sanctions, Pakistan was paying for all imports of Talibani Afghanistan and no Custom Duties were charged under Afghan Transit Agreement with Taliban and Govt. of Pakistan for years. Nobody in Pakistan had ever objected to it until, it was discovered that Generals were importing everything Custom Duty free under that Scam and selling everything in Pakistan making tons of money.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> *Editorial
> *Indian transhipment duty waiver will amount to betrayal of people
> IT is hardly surprising that India has sustained its pressure on Bangladesh
> to waive duties on transportation of cargoes from its west to northeast.
> According to a report front-paged in New Age on Tuesday, which quoted an
> official of the Indian High Commission in Bangladesh, the Indian high
> commissioner, Rajeet Mitter, iterated the request during what he termed a
> `routine call on' the foreign secretary on Monday. Earlier, the Bangladesh
> customs authorities obstructed two Indian vessels, which were carrying goods
> from west to northeast India, from entering into Bangladesh territory after
> they had declined to pay transit fees. It is not unlikely that New Delhi
> would continue to exert pressure on Dhaka to secure the waiver. What is also
> likely—and disquietingly so—is that the Awami League-led government might
> acquiesce to New Delhi's request—demand would, perhaps, be more
> precise—sooner than later. Needless to say, the indications are too many to
> overlook.
>
> It all began with the visit of the foreign minister to New Delhi in
> September 2009 when Bangladesh agreed to provide India access to Ashuganj
> port to facilitate `transport of over-dimensional consignments for the
> Palatana power project in Tripura' as a `one-time' deal. Then in January
> 2010, during the visit of the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, to New Delhi,
> the two countries agreed to declare Ashuganj in Bangladesh and Silghat in
> India as ports of call. Later, in April, at a joint meeting, both sides
> agreed that Bangladesh would collect duties under her customs laws and,
> subsequently on May 31, amended the `Protocol on Inland Water Transit and
> Trade' and added Ashuganj and Shilghat as ports of call. Bangladesh also
> eventually allowed multi-module transit to India after adding Ashuganj as a
> new transhipment point between the two countries. As per the new
> arrangement, India can now carry its goods not only by waterways but also by
> roads and rail transports from one part of its territory to the other
> through Bangladesh.
>
> As the government accommodated one Indian request after another, its key
> functionaries and crony `intellectuals' and `experts' trumpeted that
> Bangladesh stands to gain substantial benefit from transhipment of Indian
> goods, and that the annual revenue could be in the vicinity of Tk 20,000
> crores, although a senior economist of the Bangladesh Institute for
> Development Studies, an associated research organisation of the state,
> showed that the annual revenue earning could at best be Tk 210 crore but
> most probably to the tune of Tk 70 crore. It now seems that, if India has
> its way, Bangladesh may as well say goodbye to any possibility of gaining
> any monetary benefit from the transhipment deal. Such a grim possibility
> could very well be closer to becoming a reality as none other than the prime
> minister's adviser on economic affairs has recently requested the Internal
> Resources Division to waive charges on Indian vessels plying through
> Bangladesh river networks.
>
> While we may criticise India for putting pressure on Bangladesh for undue
> advantages in bilateral trade, it will be difficult to fault it for
> relentlessly trying to advance its own interest. The same, unfortunately,
> cannot be said of our government's actions or inactions; after all, it has
> so far shown an inexplicable and, needless to say, inexcusable readiness to
> compromise on Bangladesh's interest, not only economic but also
> geo-strategic. The government needs to realise its apparent eagerness to
> please its Indian counterparts is tantamount to betrayal of the people, who,
> as the constitution says, are their real masters.
>
> http://www.newagebd.com/2010/oct/13/edit.html
>
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