Relief for Tripura from India’s trading surgical strike against treacherous Bangladesh, no bar on import of fish and dry fish

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, May 19, 2025

In India’s latest surgical strike in trade and commerce with Bangladesh, announced last Saturday, fish eating people of Tripura and Assam seems to have got a reprieve as the list of proscribed imports from Bangladesh does not include fish and dry fish. It was on last Saturday that the director of foreign trade in the union ministry of commerce had imposed a ban on import of a large number of items from Bangladesh. This includes many items including potato chips, beverages , processed food but the list has made it clear that cement,stone chips and some other items are out of the purview of the ban and so are fish and dry fish, staples of the people of Tripura, Assam etc. The notification issued by the government of Indian specially mentions the land port of Tripura, Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram.

Sources here said that goods and items imported through land ports of Tripura, specially Agartala , are sent to other parts of northeast also. “To this extent Bangladesh will be a big loser as Bangladesh’s adverse trade balance with India is partially offset by the much higher gains made by businessmen of that country through border trade; in fact, despite being a much larger and resourceful neighbour the government of India had extended easier and lot of facilities of Bangladesh in the larger interest of friendly realations but the illegitimate interim government of Bangladesh led by Yunus and supported by anti-India fundamentalists tried to get paly with China and Pakistan and started acting against Indian interests and now they will pay the price; it is the magnanimity of the government of India that the ports in Calcutta and Mumbai have still been kept open for ready made garment exports of Bangladesh; they themselves have invited this trouble” said a senior official of the department of commerce and foreign trade.

Meanwhile, sources from across the border said that there is serious resentment among exporters of Bangladesh over the activities of the interim government and its anti-India posturing. They are holding the irresponsible action of the interim government’s leading lights for the counter-measure taken by the government of India. “If the people running a government fail to realize and assess a situation they will have to pay for this ; the Yunus government has already put Bangladesh in a crisis and it will only worsen unless there is a course correction” said Md Hafizullah, a leading businessman of Sylhet.

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