, April 28 -- Commerce Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir on Tuesday stressed the need for accelerating export diversification, expanding market access and boosting investment flows to forge a more robust economic partnership between Bangladesh and the United States.

While bilateral trade between the two countries has grown steadily the export basket remains dangerously skewed, said the minister at a programme titled 'Strengthening US-Bangladesh Economic Partnership' organised by the American Chamber of Commerce in Bangladesh (AmCham) at a city hotel.

"Over-reliance on the readymade garments sector poses a structural risk to the economy," he said, urging concerted efforts to broaden the country's export base.

The minister said the gover...