To facilitate the movement of India goods via Bangladesh to other countries as well as to northeast India under the transit and transhipment deal signed by Dhaka and New Delhi, Bangladesh’s National Board of Revenue or NBR has formulated customs rules.

Media reports maintained this while adding that the NBR has issued a gazette notification in this direction recently while adding that the new rules — the ‘Customs Transit and Transhipment Rules 2021’ aims at bringing the transportation of transit or transhipment goods under a specific guideline and proper authority rules — will be effective soon even as the reports underlined the rules will be applied to the transhipment goods or transportation of transit (using the soil of the country), where Bangladesh, in all cases, is a party to the international transhipment or transit system.

The reports further added that as per rules, the tenure of the transit or transhipment will be seven days from the moment Indian goods leave the port of entry in Bangladesh, and in case of failure to carry out the transit or transhipment, the authorised person will have to submit a written application to the customs authorities within the stipulated time, explaining the delay even as the NBR will, reportedly, appoint a customs commissioner, who will act as the national transit or transhipment coordinator, and, reportedly, will resolve queries and proposals related to transit and transhipment and also coordinate with other agencies.