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Autonomous body, national level
Name, kind, status and website
From the registry of public bodies. A dissolution read from an act overrides the registry's status.
Registry structure
The registry of public bodies records the parent as Ministry of Commerce (registry id 4). Provenance: registry structure (entities.parent_id), not a sourced row.
Third reader agreed with one earlier reader: functions or principal activities
Providing policy support to the government and the private sector trade bodies and associations on existing and emerging trade-related issues;
Third reader agreed with one earlier reader: functions or principal activities
Providing policy support to the government and the private sector trade bodies and associations on existing and emerging trade-related issues;
Third reader agreed with one earlier reader: functions or principal activities
Building trade-related capacity for government agencies and private sector enterprises through training and research; and
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Matched by its number in the registry of public bodies.
The figures of this view are on its own page.
Press coverage
Named in 2 articles since August 2026; number 59 among bodies in the last 12 months.
2 articles from October 2025 to September 2026, against 0 in the 12 months before.
Months with an article: August 2026 (1 article of 1,153), September 2026 (1 article of 1,278).
The total counts every outlet in the corpus. The 12-month comparison, shares and spikes use The Daily Star (business pages before 2026) and Prothom Alo English from 2018, so they measure attention within that corpus, not the whole press. Company press releases are left out throughout. A spike is a month at least three standard deviations above the body's previous 24 months. Bodies are matched by name or acronym in the headline and summary.
No dated figure about this body is recorded yet. Last changed 1 October 2026, 02:31 UTC. See over time
Forecasts: none of the 8 registered problems reads data this node appears in. The scoreboard
Third reader agreed with one earlier reader: functions or principal activities
Building trade-related capacity for government agencies and private sector enterprises through training and research; and
Third reader agreed with one earlier reader: functions or principal activities
Creating a policy forum for consultation between policy makers and business leaders.
Third reader agreed with one earlier reader: functions or principal activities
Creating a policy forum for consultation between policy makers and business leaders.
Facts a third reader settled6
A parent body or mandate items where earlier readers disagreed and a blind third reader agreed verbatim with one of them (reader_1, reader_2 are the agreeing pair; the dissenting reading is kept in dissent).
Third reader agreed with one earlier reader: functions or principal activities · Providing policy support to the government and the private sector trade bodies and associations on existing and emerging trade-related issues;
Third reader agreed with one earlier reader: functions or principal activities · Providing policy support to the government and the private sector trade bodies and associations on existing and emerging trade-related issues;
Third reader agreed with one earlier reader: functions or principal activities · Building trade-related capacity for government agencies and private sector enterprises through training and research; and
Third reader agreed with one earlier reader: functions or principal activities · Building trade-related capacity for government agencies and private sector enterprises through training and research; and
Third reader agreed with one earlier reader: functions or principal activities · Creating a policy forum for consultation between policy makers and business leaders.
Third reader agreed with one earlier reader: functions or principal activities · Creating a policy forum for consultation between policy makers and business leaders.
We have not yet found the law or order that created this body.
Head post as printed on the body's own page
Chairman
Head post as printed on the body's own page
Chief Executive Officer
Full officer list on bfti.org.bd
Head of the body as its own page prints it2
The post that heads the body (role chief_executive, or board_chair for the chair of its governing board) as the body's own saved web page prints it, two readers agreeing the post title (reader A searched the page text, reader B read the page structure). Post title only: the holder's name and any contact data are not kept; holder_named says whether the page names a holder.
Head post as printed on the body's own page · Chairman
Head post as printed on the body's own page · Chief Executive Officer
What each source budgets for the year: a gross demand for grants, an allocation, or a state-owned enterprise's own budget (income, expenditure, net profit or deficit). The tag on each line says which. None of it is spending.
Through parent
Ministry of Commerce, FY2026-27 total Tk 328.25 croreParent's line (Ministry of Commerce): development
Tk 42.69 crore
Parent's line (Ministry of Commerce): operating
Tk 285.56 crore
Parent's line (Ministry of Commerce): revised total
Tk 909.53 crore
Parent's line (Ministry of Commerce): total
Tk 607.60 crore
Parent's line (Ministry of Commerce): reviewed budget division
Ministry of Commerce | বাণিজ্য মন্ত্রণালয়
Parent's line (Ministry of Commerce): Demands for Grants unit
What was spent, by year, as the accounts or the body's own statements print it.
MTBF actual, line naming the body
Tk 0.00 crore
MTBF actual, line naming the body
Tk 0.00 crore
MTBF actual, line naming the body
Tk 0.00 crore
MTBF actual, line naming the body
Tk 2.00 crore
Budget line through the parent body11
Counted through a parent: this body has no budget line of its own, so readiness counts the nearest ancestor's own line (registry parent, or the Division its Allocation of Business entry or agency list names, or the parent two readers agreed). The line is the parent's budget, not this body's, and not spending.
Through parent · Ministry of Commerce, FY2026-27 total Tk 328.25 crore
Parent's line (Ministry of Commerce): development · Tk 42.69 crore · FY2026-27
Parent's line (Ministry of Commerce): operating · Tk 285.56 crore · FY2026-27
We have not yet found e-GP contract awards for this body.
We have not yet found the sites, buildings or other assets this body holds.
Headquarters place
Dhaka district
Headquarters place1
Headquarters place, two readers · Dhaka district
Dated event: founding
established
Dated events1
Dated events of the body (founding, began_operations, renamed, merged) as two readers read them, each quote verbatim in that reader's saved source. date_iso is served only where both readers' dates agree; otherwise the year only, with each reader's printed date and date_basis_a. note_a is reader A's note: where it names a predecessor body ('predecessor: ...', 'as ...') the event is the predecessor's, and the year is not this body's own founding.
Dated event, two readers: founding · established · 2003
18 different files (file hashes in How we know); 15 without a printed title are listed separately.
Sonali Bank Plc / Annual Report 2024
leather goods exports bangladesh
navigating new waters ldc graduation exports
promoting bangladesh exports india
wto 11th ministerial conference 2018
bd india economic dimensions 2023 vol44no3
bd journal tariff trade apr jun 2015
98bf6e15-52ec-46bb-a73c-4ec7f01cb4ee
103 passages in the twin's document library mention this body
Corpus documents that name the body, with their source and file hash18
Corpus documents that print the body's name (a mention link, name or acronym match), listed only with the document's own source URL and the sha256 of its archived file; url_basis says where the URL is recorded.
Corpus document naming the body · Sonali Bank Plc / Annual Report 2024 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · leather goods exports bangladesh · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
The eleven things the twin looks for on every public body, and whether a sourced record answers each one here.
For researchers: the registry row as recorded, how the twin object was built, and every typed link.
Object id 930
No source link is recorded on this row.
No file hash is recorded on this row.
No provenance tier is recorded. Read from the registry of public bodies (BPL).
The row names no document; the lineage below says how the object was built.
Registry of public bodies (BPL)
35,866 source rows · 35,866 objects built · 11.6 MB
Built 2026-10-02 15:25:23 UTC.
Nothing held for this body: Parent Division by the Allocation of Business; Parent Division by its agency list or MTBF book; Parent resolved by two readers; Parent body the office's own title names; Parent body the office's own title names (body added by lane REG1); Parent body whose own saved page lists the office (body added by lane FIELDPARENT); District the office's own title names; District from the office's own home page; District by rule from the office's own portal address; District from the LGD portal's own list; Containing district from the BBS census row; By rule: a committee of Parliament sits at the House; Address printed on the body's own site; Head-office address printed on the body's own site; Head-office address printed on the body's own site; Mandate inherited from the parent body; Mandate inherited from the parent body; Mandate items; Functions list on the body's own website; Functions section of the establishing act; Terms of reference in the gazette notification; Functions as printed on the body's own page; Functions list in the body's own document; Functions the body prints itself (own page, report or audited statements); Terms of reference in the constituting notification; Facts in the company's audited statements; Facts in the company's audited statements (image read); Functions list on the body's own site; Facts on the body's own website (rendered page); Facts in the body's own annual report (image read); Legal basis inherited from the parent body; Legal basis inherited from the parent body; Establishing act, functions section; Founding instrument; Instrument named on the body's own page; Establishing act on bdlaws; Gazette instrument that constitutes the body; Act or gazette notification that establishes or renames the body; Gazette notification that constitutes the council or committee; Act section that names the body; Act provision for this office class; Notification named on the body's own page; Instrument that establishes the body (act, Constitution article or Rules of Business Schedule I); By class: the statute for every body of this kind, and the register that lists this body; Constituting instrument in the body's own document; Cabinet Division notification constituting the committee; Chair or convener; Head post and holder as the source prints them; Posts the field office's own portal lists; Posts the body's own portal lists; Posts the body's own portal lists; Posts the body's own portal lists; Head post and holder on the body's own office-head page; The body's own budget line; Gross demands for grants of the ministry's Divisions; SOE budget books, budget and revised columns; UGC revised operating budget; UGC revised operating budget under the former name; Actuals printed for the budget division; Appropriation Accounts by year; MTBF actual column; SOE budget books, actual-year column; UGC annual reports, operating expenditure; Total expenditure in the body's own report; Total expenditure in the body's own report, round 2; Total expenditure in the body's own statements; Expense lines in the body's own statements; Expense lines in the company's audited statements; MTBF actual of the body's own budget unit; Total expenditure in the body's own audited statements; Actual expenditure in the body's own statements or accounts; MTBF actual of the project line that is the body; Expense lines in the audited statements (image read); MTBF actual under the body's former name; Finance Accounts, the body's unit line; e-GP awards the budget trace reaches; e-GP awards attached to the body; Procurement competition (e-GP); e-GP procuring offices; e-GP procuring offices, round 2; e-GP procuring offices matched by two readers; e-GP procuring offices matched by two readers, ministry-level pass; e-GP procuring offices, third reader; e-GP procuring entity names this office; e-GP contract award under the body's printed name; e-GP procuring offices matched to this local body by name and district; Procurement plans and award notices on the body's own website; e-GP contract award under the name the body prints on its own website; Award notices the body published; e-GP offices excluded from this body; Awards and facilities on the body's own website (rendered page); Sites named on the body's own page; Markets, terminals and other assets the body leases, allocates or runs, as its own page prints them; Operational sites on the body's own website; Operational sites on the body's own pages; Operational sites read again; Physical sites on the body's own page; Physical sites and owned buildings; Land and buildings in the audited statements; ADP projects building the body's facilities; Sites listed on the body's own website; Sites and administered institutions listed on the body's own website; Sites and land printed on the body's own website; Sites, land and facilities printed on the body's own website; Offices printed on the body's own website; Building named for the body, printed in its own publication or site; CAG audit findings; Facts in the body's own annual report; Documents that print the body's name, cited by a claim; Pages the field office's own portal published, with their file hash; PDFs the body's own site lists, with their file hash; PDFs the body's own portal published, with their file hash; Published PDFs whose tables print this body's name, with their file hash; Pages the union's own portal published, with their file hash; Annual reports; CAG audit reports; Established by; Dated events on the body's own pages; Dated events in the establishing act; Dated events in gazette instruments; Dated events in the establishing instrument; Dated events on the body's own page; Dated facts in the time layer; Dated events in the body's own document; Constitution and reconstitution dates; Dissolution by act; Statutory status; Notice on the statutory position; Founding date printed on the body's own site; Establishment or upgrade date printed in BBS District Statistics 2011 or on the body's own site; Gazette notices issued; Gazette notices that mention the body.
106 edges across 16 link types106 resolved
Link event of · from events
Bangladesh Foreign Trade Institute founding 2003
Event class: founding
Matched by entity id (two-reader founding events) · www.bfti.org.bd/about-us sha256 53d8cb588022
Link mentions · from documents
BDPolicyLab's product index did not answer, so no item is listed here; it has not been classified as empty.
Operating Tk 137.33 crore, development Tk 42.69 crore
Parent's line (Ministry of Commerce): Demands for Grants unit
Operating Tk 89.45 crore
Parent's line (Ministry of Commerce): unit under the ministry or division
Operating Tk 18.27 crore
Parent's line (Ministry of Commerce): unit under the ministry or division
Operating Tk 12.79 crore
Parent's line (Ministry of Commerce): unit under the ministry or division
Operating Tk 27.72 crore
MTBF actual, line naming the body
Tk 2.19 crore
Parent's line (Ministry of Commerce): total · Tk 607.60 crore · FY2025-26
Parent's line (Ministry of Commerce): reviewed budget division · Ministry of Commerce | বাণিজ্য মন্ত্রণালয় · reviewed 23 Sep 2026
Parent's line (Ministry of Commerce): Demands for Grants unit · Operating Tk 137.33 crore, development Tk 42.69 crore · FY2026-27 budget
Parent's line (Ministry of Commerce): Demands for Grants unit · Operating Tk 89.45 crore · FY2026-27 budget
Parent's line (Ministry of Commerce): unit under the ministry or division · Operating Tk 18.27 crore · FY2026-27 budget
Parent's line (Ministry of Commerce): unit under the ministry or division · Operating Tk 12.79 crore · FY2026-27 budget
Parent's line (Ministry of Commerce): unit under the ministry or division · Operating Tk 27.72 crore · FY2026-27 budget
MTBF actual of the line that names the body5
MoF MTBF actual (প্রকৃত) of the operational line whose printed title names the body: a 13-prefix scheme code is the government's grant line to the body, a 7-digit institution code is the body's own operational unit. Two blind readers mapped the code to the body (both printed titles kept); the two MTBF readers agreed code, page and value. Regular actual column only (actual year = book year minus 2). Development projects and own-source spending are not in it; nothing is summed or allocated.
MTBF actual, line naming the body · Tk 0.00 crore · FY2020-21
MTBF actual, line naming the body · Tk 0.00 crore · FY2021-22
MTBF actual, line naming the body · Tk 0.00 crore · FY2022-23
MTBF actual, line naming the body · Tk 2.00 crore · FY2023-24
MTBF actual, line naming the body · Tk 2.19 crore · FY2024-25
Corpus document naming the body · navigating new waters ldc graduation exports · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · promoting bangladesh exports india · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · wto 11th ministerial conference 2018 · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · bd india economic dimensions 2023 vol44no3 · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · bd journal tariff trade apr jun 2015 · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · annual report 2021 2022 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · annual report 2023 2024 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · Annual Report 15-16 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · Annual Report 2017 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · IDCOL-Annual-Report 2019 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · IDCOL-Annual-Report 2020 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · IDCOL Annual Report 2024 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · 98bf6e15-52ec-46bb-a73c-4ec7f01cb4ee · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · brds journal vol24 no1 2021 · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · brds overview · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · thinking-aloud-vol-i-no-2 · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
Mention kind: subject · Match kind: acronym and name · Passage id: 570537 · Mentions: 1
Matched by acronym and English name
CPD-FES-Digital-Trade-in-Services-How-Can-Bangladesh-Seize-Opportunities
Mention kind: subject · Match kind: acronym and name · Passage id: 584299 · Mentions: 4
Matched by acronym and English name
Mention kind: subject · Match kind: name · Passage id: 652481 · Mentions: 1
Matched by English name
A passage matched by more than one rule (English name and acronym) is listed once with both. Each passage links to its document; the corpus database's own hash, the same for every passage, is not shown as a document hash.
Link parent of · from bodies
Matched by entities.parent id
Link seated at · to places
Matched by the district's BBS code · www.bfti.org.bd/contact sha256 c1027ed9d8f9
Link allocated to · from budget lines
No linked object is recorded yet.
Link allocates · from instruments
No linked object is recorded yet.
Link constitutes · from instruments
No linked object is recorded yet.
Link decided by · from decisions
No linked object is recorded yet.
Link empowers · from instruments
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Link issued by · from instruments
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Link operates · to assets
No linked object is recorded yet.
Link parent of · to bodies
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Link post in · from posts
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Link regulated by · from products
No linked object is recorded yet.
Link resolves to · from procuring offices
No linked object is recorded yet.
Link executes · from projects
The ADP prints each executing agency as text with no registry id. The measured name match waits for a second reader before it is bound.
Dated facts: none held for this body. Only facts with a date printed in a primary document: the act date on bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd, Bangladesh Gazette decisions published 2026-04-06 to 2026-09-17 (one parser's reading, not yet checked by a second), and, read by two readers, the amendment notes of Schedule I of the Rules of Business (revised up to February 2024) and the long title of the Act that establishes a body. Postings from Part II of the weekly Gazette 2015-2026 are one reader's reading (agy Gemini) checked by a code gate against the stored page; `readers` says whether a blind second reader agreed. No dated evidence is held for this body. State over time
BDPolicyLab's writing, keyed to this node
None of the 118 published issues (21 May 2026 to 19 Sept 2026) names this body. Matched by the body's name (Bangladesh Foreign Trade Institute) printed in the issue.
The Daily Advisor is BPL's own AI-drafted policy writing, not evidence about this body.
Below: 1 BPL page carries this body.
Simulate (S1, −10%): the engine refused this body (HTTP 503): {"error":"pipeline check failed","dependents":["scenario:S1"],"datasets":[],"failing":[{"dependent":"scenario:S1","dataset":null,"check":"report","detail":"TWIN_PIPELINE_DIR is not set"}]}. Open in simulate for Ministry of Commerce, the body above it
Decision points whose printed heading ties them to the body (link decided by), for this body and the bodies above it in the registry; each is an item of ALLOCATION OF BUSINESS AMONG THE DIFFERENT MINISTRIES AND DIVISIONS (Schedule I of the Rules of Business, 1996) (Revised up to February 2024).
This bodyBangladesh Foreign Trade Institutenone
The body above itMinistry of Commerce31 decisions31 resolved