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For years, policymakers and businesses have talked about diversifying the country’s export basket and destinations. Yet little has changed. Despite generous government incentives, shipments rely heavily on a few products and markets.

And, readymade garments account for more than 82 percent of total export earnings. The European Union and the United States together take over two-thirds of those exports.

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Vulcan Materials Company is embroiled in a high-level legal dispute with the Mexican government after it attempted to expropriate a quarry supplying building materials for the southern U.S.

Vulcan is the largest producer of construction materials in the United States. While most of its operations are domestic,

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The recently concluded US-Bangladesh tariff talks might have been hailed as a “positioning win,” but the outcome, which secured reciprocal 20 percent tariffs for Bangladeshi exports to America, carries risks in a world of rising protectionism and shifting supply chains, economists and analysts have cautioned.

In order to navigate the new trade regime,

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump this week called on a Federal Reserve governor to resign over an accusation of mortgage fraud, the latest effort by his administration to exert greater control over one of the few remaining independent agencies in Washington.

Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook says she won’t leave her post.

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