National Chamber to host Bangladesh High Commissioner on Thursday

Sri Lanka Bangladesh Business Co-operation Council of the National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka will hold a bilateral trade and investment discussion on Thursday 24 November from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at its auditorium at No. 450, D.R. Wijewardena Mawatha, Colombo 10.

High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Sri Lanka Tareq Md Ariful Islam will be the Special Guest Speaker and the session will be assisted by Counsellor (Political) Md. Reyad Hossain.

The participants will get an opportunity to have a close dialogue with the High Commissioner of Bangladesh.

The overall purpose of this meeting is to discuss the current trade environment, investment opportunities/services, policies and other important information with the view to promote and strengthen bilateral trade and investment between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

Sri Lanka’s major export items to Bangladesh are electrical machinery and equipment and parts, plastics, knitted or crocheted fabrics, special woven fabrics, aluminium, iron and steel, wadding, felt and nonwovens special yarns, man-made filaments, soap, cotton, cartons, boxes, cases bags and other packing containers, paper or paperboard labels, etc. (Source: Sri Lanka Customs).

Sri Lanka’s major import items from Bangladesh are pharmaceutical products, apparel, electric generating sets, other made up textile articles, potatoes, cotton, knitted or crocheted fabrics, plastics, paper and paperboard, other vegetable textile fibres, etc. (Source: Sri Lanka Customs).

For reservation for the session, kindly contact Chamber on 011 474 1788/2689600, 0762 555 707 (Nirmani/Hiruni/Nishanthi) or email [email protected]; [email protected]. Reservations will done on first come first served basis.