PM asks NBR to reduce tariff on rice, edible oil, sugar, date

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed National Board of Revenue (NBR) to cut tariff on four essential products - rice, edible oil, sugar and date.

Ahead of the Holy month of Ramadan, she came up with the direction in a cabinet meeting on Monday at her office in the capital's Tejgaon.

Later, Cabinet Secretary Md Mahbub Hossain, in a press conference, made the disclosure. 

The NBR will decide now how much tariff will be reduced.

/MHK/