Finance, commerce and, science and technology adviser Salehuddin Ahmed again on Wednesday said that they would not allow shortage of essential products.
He made the comment after approving the import of fertiliser, sugar, grams and soya bean oil at a meeting of the advisory committee on the government purchase at the secretariat.
The adviser who presided over the meeting also said that the import of grams and soya bean oil meant for the next Ramadan.
He added that they would decide to import of dates soon.
Answering a question on the judicial order to appear before a US court, the finance adviser said that he would not say anything about the matter.聽聽聽
It was reported that the directive by US District Judge Carl J Nichols in a case over the cancellation of a deal between the Bangladesh government and a US-based company in 1999 was withdrawn later on.
Answering to another question on smuggling of money, the adviser said that he would say about the matter later.
Quoting Bangladesh Bank governor Ahsan H Mansur, London-based Financial Times said that powerful business tycoons siphoned off $17 billion from the banking sector of the country during the 15-year rule of the ousted prime minister, Sheikh Hasina.
The day鈥檚 meeting approved proposals from the Trading Corporation of Basngladesh to purchse 5,000 tonnes of sugar, 6,000 tonnes of gram and 32.60 lakh litres of soya bean oil at an overall cost of Tk 215.75 crore.
Imports of 90,000 tonnes of fertiliser from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Karnaphuli Fertiliser Factory at a cost of 401.5 crore were also approved.
Besides, the import of two cargos of liquefied natural gas to be supplied by the Exelerate Energy of the US with per unit of LNG costing $14.55.
