Dhaka, April 7 -- Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus urges US President Donald Trump to postpone the imposition of 37-percent reciprocal tariff on Bangladeshi exports for three months, allowing his government time to implement measures for augmenting imports from the United States.

As the head of interim government wrote Monday to the US president, the commerce ministry in a separate letter dispatched to the US trade department detailed a slew of trade concessions, including zero-rated duty on more imports from that country.

"I most sincerely hope that you will grant this request," Prof Yunus, a Nobel-laureate economist who also enjoys state accolades from the United Sates, says in the letter, according to the Press Secretary to Chief Ad...