Bangladesh Tea Association
Profile
- Type
- sector association
- Sector
- tea (tea estates / garden owners)
- President
- Kamran Tanvirur Rahman
- Secretary General
- n/a
- Members
- 166
- Founded
- 1947
- Affiliation
- FBCCI
Urging competitive energy tariffs, export incentive retention, and automated customs clearance to sustain industrial growth.
Recent activity
- 2026-06-12 budget_proposal Bangladesh Tea Association submitted pre-budget representation to National Board of Revenue (NBR) regarding source tax rationalization. ↗
- 2026-07-22 demand Advocated with Ministry of Power and Energy for uninterrupted industrial gas and electricity supply. ↗
- 2026-08-15 trade_fair Organized international buyer expo and bilateral trade delegation to expand global export market access. ↗
Provenance & notes
Leadership uses 'chairman' (recorded in current_president). Kamran T Rahman re-elected chairman in the April 2025 election for the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 terms; exact election day not specified so president_since recorded as 2025-04. founded_year 1947 is BTA's own claim ('representing the interest of the owners and professional planters since 1947'); the body traces to the post-1947-partition split of Sylhet gardens from the Surmah Valley Branch of the Indian Tea Association. member_count 166 is the tea-estate count BTA's overview page cites as the estates it represents (an earlier figure of 146 also appears); treat as estates represented rather than dues-paying members. HQ: New DOHS, Mohakhali, Dhaka.