Import duty on newsprint
Sumon, Dhaka
New duty on newsprint import may push the costs of newspapers up. I think the existing price of a newspaper is already too much. The number of newspaper readers is increasing (partly because the news on BTV amounts to entertainment ) and that is a good sign. Earlier, we the poor guys without cable network could watch the BBC and CNN on BTV. Now this has been replaced by some garbage programmes of BTV.The government reportedly failed to pay the arrears advertisement bills to the newspapers for four months in the current fiscal due to fund shortage. Worse still, it is imposing new and increased duty on imported newspaper, which contributes 85% of the total amount required by the newspaper industry. The government should consider the problems faced by the industry and make sure that people get newspapers at a reasonable price.
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