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Bangladesh: Increase in cash margin requirement for opening letters of credit for non-essential goods

Announcement

11 May 2022

Bangladesh has increased the cash margin requirement for opening letters of credit to import non-essential goods.

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Number of interventions

2

2 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

0 in force

Implementation date

11 May 2022

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Trade payment measure

On 11 May 2022, the Bangladesh Bank increased the minimum cash margin requirement for opening letters of credit to import non-essential goods from 25% to 50%. The cash margin requirement was earlier i...

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Trade payment measure

On 11 May 2022, the Bangladesh Bank imposed a 75% cash margin requirement for opening letters of credit to import high-end motor vehicles, and electrical and electronic products that are used as home ...

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