{"id":135,"date":"2015-03-24T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.themegrill.com\/colormag\/?p=135"},"modified":"2022-07-20T10:08:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T10:08:35","slug":"coffee-is-health-food-myth-or-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh, Japan need to sign FTA soon: Japanese Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The ambassador mentioned about a recent survey that found 85% of the Japanese companies operating in Bangladesh want the signing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Japanese ambassador to Bangladesh Ito Naoki has said that both Bangladesh and Japan need to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) as already the majority of companies on both sides want such engagement. &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to have a new agreement, a new bilateral agreement. Then the conclusion is free trade agreement or broader, namely an economic partnership agreement. So, there is a good reason to proceed with this possibility,&#8221; he said during a dialogue at the National Press Club organised by the Diplomatic Correspondent Association of Bangladesh (DCAB) Tuesday (7 June).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In fact, the ministry of commerce here has requested to initiate the joint feasibility study of the free trade agreement. The ministry in Tokyo is reconsidering this possibility. Hope we can start a new framework of consultation between the two governments before ending this milestone year,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The ambassador mentioned about a recent survey that found 85% of the Japanese companies operating in Bangladesh want the signing of an FTA between Japan and Bangladesh to continue duty-market access even after the graduation of Bangladesh from the least developed country to a developing one in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ambassador mentioned about a recent survey that found 85% of the Japanese companies operating in Bangladesh want the signing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hotels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}