KATHMANDU (The Kathmandu Post/ANN): Ten months after signing the Protocol on Implementing the Agreement on Transit and Transportation between Nepal and China, Beijing has officially notified Kathmandu that it has completed all domestic legal procedures. This means that the protocol will come into effect from Feb 1.
Nepal and China signed the transit protocol in Beijing on April 29, during the visit of President Bidya Devi Bhandari.
“Now the deck is clear for Nepali businesspersons to conduct third-country trade via China, ” said Navaraj Dhakal, joint-secretary at the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.There are major concerns about infrastructure on the Nepali side, the lack of a trained workforce, and a language barrier. “We do not know how much time it will take for businesses to start importing goods from the nearest Chinese seaports, ” said Dhakal.The nearest Chinese seaport is Tianjin, which is 4,000km from the Nepal border — four times the distance between Birgunj and Kolkata in India.
“Unless such bottlenecks are cleared, it is going to take a long time for Nepali businesses to use Chinese ports.”“We are habituated to importing goods via India, where the language is not a problem, ” Karki told the Post. But it took almost three years to sign the protocol for the agreement, without which Nepal could not access Chinese sea and land ports.
“The Rasuwa-Kathmandu road is not in very good shape and it frequently sees landslides, ” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Post.
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