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Bangladesh sets 2% growth target for exports

05/12/2005

Bangladesh Commerce Minister Altaf Hossain Chowdhury has announced that the country plans to boost its leather and leather goods exports target to 2% of the total global trade in the sector from the existing 0.4%. Mr Chowdhury made the announcement at the inaugural session of a two-day workshop, 'SHAPE: Future Development of the Leather Sector in Bangladesh’, organised by the Leather Sector Business Promotion Council (LSBPC) in collaboration with ITC-Geneva under the Asia Fund Project of the European Council (EC).

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