Currently, it takes up to 10 days to submit bill of entry by the importers in the customs port, which causes unusual delay in releasing goods. This was said at a program titled ‘Ease of doing business: Trading across border’ in the capital on Tuesday. Customs modernization first secretary AAM Amimul Ehsan Khan gave a detailed presentation on recent initiatives of customs to expedite the trading across the border. Customs member Aminur Rahman said the National Single Window (NSW) would bring 39 agencies under a single roof to ease the process trading across the border. “Once the NSW project is implemented, the country will see a significant improvement in doing business indicator and it will take one to two days to release goods from ports,” he said.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 25, 2020 17:03 UTC