This obviously adds to the costs of imports and we’re being told this is a very bad thing. There are high import tariffs on a vast number of goods. It doesn’t matter whether we’re adding value to imports or to exports or to home production or whatever in fact. We’re being told that these delays and extra expenses at Benapole are a very terror, something harming the economy. But then we’ve also got exactly the same policy being followed in general, import tariffs to ensure that imports are expensive applied more generally to the entire economy.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 27, 2018 18:11 UTC