Kathmandu, Jan. 11 -- Nepal and Bangladesh are set to resume commerce secretary-level talks in Dhaka, reopening long-pending issues, most notably the proposed bilateral preferential trade agreement (PTA) and the list of goods to be covered under it.

The two-day meeting, scheduled to begin on Tuesday, will be co-chaired by Nepal's Commerce Secretary Ram Prasad Ghimire and Bangladesh's Commerce Secretary Mahbubur Rahman. Officials say the talks aim to strengthen economic relations and boost sub-regional connectivity.

The last such meeting, the sixth Nepal-Bangladesh commerce secretary-level dialogue, was held virtually in October 2020. At the time, the two sides agreed in principle to sign a bilateral PTA for the first time since the esta...