Bangladesh Tariff Commission is likely to be renamed as Bangladesh Trade Commission to enhance its institutional working capacity, Commerce Minister Faruk Khan said Sunday.

“The matter is now under active consideration of the government,” he said while addressing a function at the Tariff Commission marking the completion of professional training of the newly appointed officials of the Commission.

Faruk Khan urged the newly appointed officials to give their best while working for the Commission and thus deliver something to the country.

He said that at present there is an imbalance in country’s export and import as the country’s export fetched US $ 15.5 billion against the import of US $ 22 billion in the 2008-09 fiscal.

The Commerce Minister said that the Tariff Commission has an important role to figure out country’s actual production in domestic market, its demand, identifying the problems in domestic market and their solutions and revealing research findings for export market to expedite country’s development.

Chaired by Bangladesh Tariff Commission chairman Dr. Mujibur Rahman, the function was also addressed, among others, by Commission member Wasi Uddin Ahmed and joint chief Dr. Mostafa Abid Khan.

--UNB, Dhaka