[7] An official order to mandatorily install a keyboard layout package kit in 2018 spawned furor over multiple fronts.

273 products require mandatory CM licence to be produced, distributed and sold inside Bangladesh.

It also calibrates and verifies the weighing and measuring devices used in the markets and ensures that they maintain the International System of Units.

BSTI runs monitoring activities through surveillance, mobile courts, random sampling and testing from markets and factories.

It also provides metrology and instrument calibration services to local industries, markets, petrol pumps, oil tankers etc.