{"id":427253,"date":"2025-09-15T21:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/427253\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T21:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:37:21","slug":"bangladesh-to-scale-up-us-imports-to-reduce-tariffs-says-interim-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/427253\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh to scale up US imports to reduce tariffs, says interim leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DHAKA, Bangladesh\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The interim government is ready to scale up imports from the US to further reduce the reciprocal tariff rate on Bangladeshi goods in the American market, a key destination of the South Asian country\u2019s textile exports.<\/p>\n<p>Interim leader Muhammad Yunus made these remarks during a meeting with Assistant United States Trade Representative (AUSTR) Brendan Lynch in Dhaka on Monday, according to a statement from Yunus\u2019 office.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the US administration reduced the tariff on Bangladeshi goods from 35% to 20% through negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Yunus described the tariff reduction as &#8220;a significant milestone in bilateral trade relations,&#8221; reaffirming Bangladesh&#8217;s strong commitment to strengthening bilateral relations with the US, particularly in trade, investment, energy, and development cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, both sides discussed strategies for reducing the bilateral trade imbalance, as well as Bangladesh&#8217;s intention to increase imports of US agricultural products such as cotton and soybeans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur interests are closer to those of the United States. That makes this process easier and more promising,\u201d Yunus said.<\/p>\n<p>Lynch, for his part, emphasized the significance of the timely implementation of the tariff agreements and purchase commitments.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh is the world&#8217;s second-largest garment exporter, after China. The US is Bangladesh&#8217;s top export destination, accounting for $8.4 billion in 2024, including $7.34 billion in readymade garments.<\/p>\n<p>                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/p\/subscription\/1001\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:12px; color:#444; text-decoration:none;\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                    Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. <b style=\"color:#1897F7\">Please contact us for subscription options.<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\n                                <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DHAKA, Bangladesh\u00a0 The interim government is ready to scale up imports from the US to further reduce the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[5340,21710,49,978,145769,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-427253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-anadolu-ajansi","9":"tag-bangladesh","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-us-tarriff-move","13":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}