Dhaka, Feb. 5 -- A group of Bangladeshi women entrepreneurs representing eight businesses will lead a trade mission to the United Kingdom (UK) this month.

Their visit will involve high-level discussions with investors, legislators and corporate executives in the UK and promote cross-border trade between the two countries under the UK's Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS), according to a statement.

The DCTS is the UK's generous preferential trading scheme which provides duty-free, quota-free access for Bangladesh.

The DCTS gives Bangladesh the opportunity to potentially save £317 million in tariffs annually on the country's exports to the UK, the highest among all countries eligible for DCTS.

British High Commissioner to Ba...