Fourteen exporting firms from Bangladesh with eight product groups, including knitwear, readymade garment, silk products, jute goods, handicrafts, jamdani sharee, pharmaceuticals and home textile, are taking part in the fair, according to a press release of the Export Promotion Bureau.

The objective of participating in the fair is to familiarise an array of Bangladeshi products with the Malaysian and other international buyers and trade communities with a view to enhancing the export market to Malaysia.

Bangladesh's exports to Malaysia in the fiscal 2004-05 amounted to US$ 13.91 million against imports from that country worth US$ 275.36 million.