Dhaka, April 22 -- Bangladesh has urged the United States to provide duty free and quota free access on Bangladeshi RMG items made from US cotton.

Bangladesh also demanded of the US government for creating export opportunities for Bangladeshi products like pharmaceuticals, ceramics apart from RMG as well as simplifying further the registration process of pharmaceuticals.

The demands were placed at a US-Bangladesh TICFA Intercessional Meeting held at the Ministry of Commerce conference room at Bangladesh Secretariat here on Sunday.

Briefing reporters after the meeting, the head of Bangladesh delegation and Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce Tapan Kanti Ghosh said that the RMG industry of Bangladesh is now more compliant than t...