Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) and Bangladesh have discussed opportunities to intensify trade and economic cooperation. The meeting was co-chaired by EEC Minister for Integration and Macroeconomics Eldar Alisherov and Bangladesh Additional Secretary of Commerce Aisha Akter at the EEC headquarters recently.
“Since the conclusion of the Memorandum of Cooperation in 2019, the trade turnover between the Eurasian Economic Union member states and Bangladesh has been on an upward trend, and at the end of 2024, the growth of trade turnover exceeded 5%.
The traditional export items of the #EAEU countries to Bangladesh are agricultural products, energy resources, metals, machinery and equipment, while textiles, clothing and footwear prevail in EAEU imports from Bangladesh,” Eldar Alisherov noted.
“Bangladesh appreciates the long-term nature of interaction with the EEC and EAEU member states and offers entrepreneurs from the Union countries to more fully utilise its capacious domestic market (180 million people) for such goods as food, agrarian raw materials, agricultural machinery, as well as to develop Bangladeshi food processing and storage infrastructure,” Aisha Akter said.
The two sides discussed in detail the expansion of food grain supplies to Bangladesh, exchanged information on promoting labour migration and trade.
