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Institutions
Bank Watch: scheduled banks tracked on stability metrics.
Parliament Watch: members and their activity.
University Watch: the higher-education system, tracked.
NGO Watch: civil society and development NGOs, tracked.
Development Partner Watch: the donors, tracked.
Industry Association Watch: the apex chambers, tracked.
Early warning
The Crisis Orb: a live, level-anchored hazard board.
The LDC 2029 graduation monitor.
The national early-warning board across hazards.
Early warning for the haor flood basin.
The multi-hazard exposure atlas, by district.
Where hazards compound across the same places.
A priority index ranking places by combined risk.
Cropland exposed to flood, heat, and salinity.
The bank distress watch: stress signals across banks.
The disaster ledger: events and losses over time.
Government Watch
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The commission is currently balancing the protection of domestic infant industries against the need to maintain the global competitiveness of the export-oriented garment industry amid post-LDC graduation requirements.
BTTC participated in policy dialogue with the Bangladesh Textile Mills Association regarding trade and duty-free access.
BTTC engaged in inter-ministerial discussions evaluating import tariff proposals for the spinning sector.
BTTC was originally founded 28 July 1973 by government resolution as a non-statutory advisory directorate under the Ministry of Commerce; reconstituted as a statutory body corporate under the Bangladesh Tariff Commission Act 1992 (Act No. 43); renamed and scope expanded under the Bangladesh Trade and Tariff Commission Act 2019 (Cabinet approval 17 June 2019). Organisational wings: Trade Policy Wing, Trade Remedies Wing, International Cooperation Wing. Current_head is null: previous chairman Dr. Moinul Khan (appointed 28 August 2024) submitted voluntary retirement on 30 October 2025 and reportedly departed for Saudi Arabia; Ministry of Commerce held the application under review as of November 2025 and no verified successor has been publicly confirmed. Staff count of 116 (Banglapedia, 2010) is the only primary-source figure available and is likely understated today. Annual BDT budget not publicly disaggregated at BTTC level. Anti-dumping: BTTC holds statutory authority to investigate dumping complaints and recommend antidumping/countervailing duties, but Bangladesh has not yet imposed a formal WTO-compliant ADD or CVD in practice; domestic industries more commonly seek tariff increases via NBR rather than filing dumping allegations with BTTC (BFTI, 2024). GSP+: BTTC is tasked with producing sector-level RoO assessments for garments to support Bangladesh's EU GSP+ application before the three-year EBA grace period (ending November 2029) expires. US trade deal: aggregate CPD estimate of Tk 1,327 crore annual revenue loss from granting duty-free access to 6,700+ US tariff lines is the key fiscal exposure figure the Commission is expected to analyse for the BNP administration's formal review. verification_status = partial because the current chairman is unconfirmed and staff/budget figures lack recent primary-source confirmation.