The Bangladesh delegation at the JWG meeting will also raise its concern over India's ban on export of essentials -- sugar, pulses and wheat -- and seek special considerations to allow export of the items to Bangladesh.

"The trade talks meant for looking after the interests of the business community which will actually propel trade and investment between the two countries," a senior official told the news agency yesterday.

Additional secretary of the Ministry of Commerce Elias Ahmed will lead a 7-member Bangladesh delegation to the JWG meeting while joint secretary of Indian Ministry of Commerce MVPC Shastri will lead the home side.

The Bangladesh delegation is scheduled to leave Dhaka for Agortala by road today.

The two-day meeting was earlier scheduled to be held in New Delhi, but Bangladesh preferred Agortala considering the country's business interests in the northeastern states of India, the official said.

Recently formed joint task forces comprising representatives from the apex trade bodies of the two countries in their first meeting here on June 4 finalised and submitted a charter of recommendations to both the governments to promote bilateral trade and investment.

In second meeting in Kolkata on June 20, Indian State Minister for Commerce Jairam Ramesh said India would come up with its official response to the recommendations at the Joint Working Group meeting.

Imposition of additional 4 per cent tax by India on import of few items, including Jamdani sarees and hilsa fish, will also come up for discussion at the meeting.

Evaluating the implementation status of the decisions taken at the third meeting of the JWG here in August last year is among the other issues to be discussed at the two-day meeting.

The issues also include non-tariff and para-tariff barriers, trade facilitation through developing infrastructure for land customs stations, improvement of the banking facilities in the Indian northeastern states.