<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Bangladesh will import 50,000 metric tons of onion from India.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs in a meeting on Wednesday approved in principle a proposal of the Commerce Ministry in this regard.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali presided over the meeting.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As per the proposal, state-owned Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB), a subordinate body of the Commerce Ministry, will import the onion from Indian National Cooperative Export Limited on G-to-G basis.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, the price of the onion was not disclosed in the meeting as the proposal will again come to the Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase for approval, reports UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“At that time, the rate of the onion might be disclosed,” said an additional secretary of the Cabinet Division who briefed reporters about the decision.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/fas</div>