Border trade with Myanmar halts on trader strike
UNB, Cox's Bazar
Border trade between Bangladesh and Myanmar came to a halt yesterday as traders at the frontier went on an indefinite strike to protest harassment by law enforcers while transporting goods through the Teknaf Highway.Importers, C&F agents and Transport Owners-Employees' Unity enforced the strike as authorities failed to meet their 10-point demand by the deadline on Sunday. Their demands include stoppage of BDR activities in the government declared customs area, shifting of trading points to specified places and reestablishing the supremacy of the Customs along the border belt. Trade between Bangladesh and Myanmar across the river Naf in Teknaf yields a daily revenue of about Tk 10 lakh. In July, the government earned Tk three crore from border trade in Teknaf area.
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