.PITF 2017 to help boost trade with friendly countries
KARACHI - President Mamnoon Hussain has said that Pakistan International Trade Fair (PITF 2017) will provide excellent opportunities for progress and improvement of industry and commerce.
The president further said...
Traders urge govt to cut cost of production
ISLAMABAD - The business community has proposed to the government to reduce the cost of production to enhance tumbling exports to contain the widening current account deficit of the...
Maximum efforts being made to facilitate businessmen: Punjab governor
LAHORE (Staff Reporter): Punjab Governor Muhammad Rafique Rajwana said on Saturday that maximum efforts were being made to facilitate the business community which was revenue generator and employment provider....
Industry upbeat on govt support through regulatory duty
KARACHI (Staff Reporter): The recent tariff measures and removal of anomalies by the federal government should result in supporting growth of large scale manufacturing (LSM) in Pakistan thus giving...
Turkey deputy minister for trade visits PBIT
PR LAHORE - A high level Turkish delegation led by Deputy Minister for Trade, Industry and Technology, Hasan Ali Celek and other prominent members of TUMSIAD (All Industrialists and...
FBR faces Rs47b shortfall in July-October
ISLAMABAD - The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has faced tax collection shortfall of Rs47 billion during first four months (July-October) of the current financial year.
The FBR has provisionally...
Lebanese envoy for enhancing trade ties
LAHORE - Ambassador of Lebanon Mona El Tannir has called for well tailored sector specific measures to cement mutual trade ties.
While talking to Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry...
Govt’s support needed to boost country’s share in global IT trade: PBIF
ISLAMABAD (INP): Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum (PBIF) President Mian Zahid Hussain on Wednesday said the country’s share in the global IT trade stands at mere one percent but...
Ahsan urges businessmen to play lead in industrial phase of CPEC
ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Planning Development and Reforms Ahsan Iqbal has said that industrial cooperation will feature prominently in the agenda of 7th Joint Cooperation Committee (JCC) scheduled...
New trade measures are anti-export
The current account crisis did serve to shake up the Ministry of Commerce enough to announce some measures to try to correct the balance. Unsurprisingly, the Ministry chose the...