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Product-Specific Export Facilities
5.1 Readymade Garments Industry
5.1.1 Steps will be taken to reduce the "lead time” for export of readymade garments by means of improvement of port management, simplification of procedures for releasing goods, resolving electricity problems etc;
5.1.2 Initiatives will be taken to set up “garments villages” at various places with adequate infrastructural and utility facilities;
5.1.3 Steps will be taken to establish waste water treatment plants in garments villages;
5.1.4 Assistance will be provided to improve the working environment in the readymade garments factories to reduce risks of accident and to fulfill the compliance requirements at the factory level. Besides, initiatives will be taken to formulate an integrated and reasonable compliance regulation with the help of all stakeholders;
5.1.5 Initiatives will be taken to provide trainings of different tenures to the workers and staff of the garments industries to increase their productivity and facilitate diversification of products;
5.1.6 Emphasis will be given on diversification of products by improving skills of, workers and staff, and disseminating information to the entrepreneurs on products markets and technology;
5.1.7 Steps will be taken to send marketing missions abroad, arrange single country textiles and readymade garments fairs abroad, and organize and participate in international trade fairs at home and abroad so as to expand and consolidate the markets for readymade garments;
5.1.8 Establishment of backward and forward linkage industries will be encouraged; and
5.1.9 Subject to the submission of bank guarantee of equivalent amount of duty for imported raw materials, the enterprises without bond license will be allowed to produce exportable hand-woven sweaters from natural and artificial wool outside the bond areas.
5.2 Frozen Fish Industry
5.2.1 Cultivation of shrimp for increasing the production of shrimp maintaining ecological balance will be encouraged;
5.2.2 Venture capital will be provided for producing, processing and exporting value added products in the frozen food sector;
5.2.3 Initiatives will be taken to establish “Seal of quality organization” or similar organizations under public-private partnership to ensure the quality of shrimp and shrimp products;
5.2.4 Necessary steps will be taken to establish Accredited Testing Laboratory of high quality under public and private or joint initiatives to ensure high quality of products and SPS (Sanitary and phyto-sanitary) related standards;
5.2.5 Setting up of laboratories in the private sector will be allowed and steps will be taken for research and remedial measures to improve the quality of shrimps and protect them from diseases.
5.2.6 Import of indispensable machinery for quality control will be encouraged so as to strengthen the efforts for controlling the quality of frozen food. Department of Fisheries and BCSIR will take initiatives to improve their accredited testing laboratories;
5.2.7 In order to reduce the risk of exporting contaminated frozen food, a special supervision or traceability system will be developed for all the steps from hatching to production of fish, processing and packaging;
5.2.8 Steps will be taken to send marketing missions abroad, organize single country frozen food fairs, arrange and participate in international trade fairs at home and abroad so as to expand and consolidate the markets for frozen food;
5.2.9 All possible steps will be taken to implement the “Vision-2015” formulated by Bangladesh Frozen Food and Exporters Association (BFFEA);
5.2.10 A monitoring cell will be formed to control the quality of exportable shrimps;
5.2.11 Assistance will be provided to diversify fish and frozen fish products; and
5.2.12 Customs Authorities will ensure, before the release of the goods, whether the imported fish-feed is usable or whether there is any contaminated or prohibited substance in it. The Department for Fisheries or the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock will send the updated list of prohibited substances to the Customs Authorities from time to time.
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