Furniture Fair begins in Port City

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Chattogram Bureau :
A six-day long Furniture Fair begins at GEC Convention Centre in the port city on Thursday. Bangladesh Furniture Industries Owners Association arranged the 11th Furniture Fair.
Some 31 Furniture manufacturing organisations participating the fair and installed their stall with their productions of varieties of furniture .
Each stall is offering discount at 10 to 20 percent on sale. City Mayor AJM Nasir Uddin inaugurated the 11th fair at GEC convention centre as
Chief Guest. The f air will remain open from 10 am to 9 pm. Furniture made with foreign wood and board are very much attracting the buyers than the locally wood made one . The furniture made of foreign wood boards are comparatively in cheap price than local wood made furniture.
President of Furniture Industries Owners Association, Chattogram divisional unit Syed ASM Nuruddin said sizeable local wood is rare in the market and hence manufacturers demands to the foreign wood which are available in any sizes. He also urges govt to lessen the import duty of foreign wood so as to help facilitate the exports of readymade furniture with possibility of huge forex earnings from this sector. The entry fee in the fair fixed at Tk.10, fair committee convenor told fair committee.
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