All such collection of royalty or tax will come under the credit of Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Overseas Trade Mission at present is looking after the interests and all matters related to trade and commerce in the overseas land.
NECESSITY OF BANGLADESH OVERSEAS TRADE MISSION LIKE U. S. S. R. & RUMANIA ETC.
In view of long trade relation with India and other countries, and specially during the time of emergency, such a Mission is urgently required to look after the following interests on behalf of the Government of Bangladesh: (1) As our Government is not at the moment in a position to contact the Overseas parties directly and to finalize any trade agreement or buying and selling of any commodities from Mujibnagar, until the Government is formally recognised, this Trade Mission may look into the trade & commerce of Bangladesh in foreign lands.
(2)As the Government of India has permitted to operate our Bangladesh Mission with full diplomatic status, this Trade Mission may also work simultaneously for developing our trade relation with India and all other friendly countries for obtaining commercial recognition thereof. (3)To keep regular contact with overseas countries by way of commercial correspondences, mutual understanding and obtaining enquiries in the matter of Trade and Commerce. Looking after the financial and trading interest of the Government in foreign land by way of obtaining offers for selling commodities like Jute. Tea, Tobacco, Hide and Skins. Machineries etc. as many of which could not get market value due to lack of coordination, correspondences, proper handling and bargaining.
(4) To supply time to time information about the position of jute export and other commercial items to interested countries as some of them are losing confidence in absence of such information. Many of them are in dark-and do not know about the existence and development of Bangladesh. Otherwise, there will be no propaganda which will be helpful during emergency period which may gain the ground to get even political recognition. There will be serious economic set back after liberation, if we loss such confidence by the overseas countries.
(5)To set-up trading programme in view of existing trade activities and requirements and to make planning of future economic programme during liberation war and after liberation which will be helpful to our Planning Cell with existing dates to be collected by this Trade Mission..
(6) This Trade Mission may work like “TRADE REPRESANTATION OF USSR AND RUMANIA, CZECHOLOVAKIA ETC."- in Dacca/Calcutta and “INTER EXPORT OF YUGO SIAVIA “in Dacca. It may be mentioned that East Germany.
China, Cuba, North Vietnam also did start their trade relation without recognition for gaining their ground through trading activities and contacts for recognition.
