Dhaka, March 19 -- Chairman of National Board of Revenue (NBR) Md Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan on Tuesday laid emphasis on signing the Istanbul Convention on ATA Carnet to facilitate international trade.

He said this while speaking as the chief guest at a daylong workshop on ATA Carnet System organised jointly by International Chamber of Commerce-Bangladesh (ICCB) and National Board of Revenue (NBR) at a hotel in the capital.

Mosharraf also said Bangladesh is an active party to various regional forums like BIMSTEC, BBIN MVA, SASEC etc. There are numbers of agreements and treaties where Bangladesh is a signatory like SAPTA, APTA, River protocol with India and Bhutan, Transit Agreement with India, Nepal and Bhutan.

"It's very important for ...