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According to Al-Ittihad newspaper (January 5, 2005), Mr. Tareq Ikram, the Pakistani Minister of Foreign Trade and Chairman of Pakistan Exports Promotion Bureau (EPB), estimated at Dh 500 million ($130 [...]

According to Al-Khaleej newspaper (September 9, 2004), Mr. Obaid Humaid Al Tayer, the Chairman of Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry, met with Mr. Sayed Qaiser Hussain, Ambassador of Pakistan [...]

According to 'Tehran Times', Pakistan's trade deficit for the next fiscal year 2004-05 is projected to increase by almost 76 percent to US dlrs 1.332 billion from the current year's [...]

According to oTehran Timeso, an informed source with the Ministry of Oil, said that Pakistan had postponed buying natural gas from Iran. Pakistan has recently explored a gas field, which [...]

According to 'Business Line', the recent delegation of producers to Pakistan has reiterated that prices, more than politics, determine the country's exports to that country. At the current rates of [...]

According to 'Dunya', State Minister Kursat Tuzmen flew to Pakistan to attend a meeting of foreign trade ministers. Speaking before his departure, Tuzmen said that Turkey's exports for the first [...]

Al-Watan newspaper quoted sources in the Treasury Ministry who told the paper in mid-March 2003 that the Ministry in interested in importing additional fuel from Saudi Arabia worth $671 million [...]

Pakistan Tanners Association (PTA) has urged the government to avoid export of live animals and allow export of only meat, according to the Daily Times. In its budget recommendations for [...]

Pakistan's total exports have grown 20 percent in the current fiscal year but the country must position itself to acquire a major slice of the global growth in the export [...]

Pakistani silk manufacturers and exporters have refused to travel to China due to the severe outbreak of SARS epidemic, a source in the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) and Board of [...]

According to 'Tehran Times', Iran is to meet 20 percent of Pakistan's steel shortage by exporting two million tons of iron ore to the country in a five-year period from [...]

According to 'Daily Times', a spokesman for the Board of Investment (BoI) said arrangements to set up a modern trade center in Singapore are in the final stage, and the [...]

The bilateral trade between Pakistan and Poland has registered a steady growth in the last few years from $24 million in 1997 to $43.3 million in 2000, Dawn reports. This [...]

According to India Daily, Pakistan said it had granted duty allowances on more than 600 trade items to India and other Saarc countries under the South Asian Preferential Trade Agreement. [...]

Saudi Minister of Commerce Osama Faqih and Pakistan Ambassador to the Kingdom Mohammad Assad Durrani signed in Riyadh on Wednesday an accord on resuming import of frozen and canned meat [...]

According to the India Daily, Pakistan said it had allocated customs concession on more than 600 trade items to India and other Saarc countries under the South Asian Preferential Trade [...]

Pakistani industries yesterday welcomed a raft of new trade liberalisation measures announced by the government but dubbed its export target of $10.4 billion optimistic, Gulf Daily News reports. The steps [...]

According to the India Daily News, Pakistan has granted duty allowance on more than 600 trade items to India and other Saarc countries under the South Asian Preferential Trade Agreement. [...]

Thailand and Pakistan on Tuesday decided to revive the Joint Economic Commission to provide an institutional mechanism for the promotion of trade and economic ties between the two countries, The [...]

According to 'Business Line', Pakistan, a net importer of vegetable oils as India, has changed tack in recent years and started to import oilseeds in partial replacement of edible oil. [...]

Pakistani dutiable imports surged by 24.82 percent in December and 3.36 percent in the July December period of the current financial year in comparison with the same period last year, [...]

India will suffer a net loss of over $200 million annually in overall trade with Pakistan as a result of suspension of air, train, and bus links between the two [...]

Pakistani Minister of State Tariq Ikram announced this week that Iraq has agreed to buy one million tons of wheat from Pakistan in the year 2002, The News (Islamabad) reports. [...]

According to figures announced by the Federal Bureau of statistics (FBS) on Tuesday, Pakistan's trade deficit for the first quarter of the current fiscal year (July-September) stands at $243 million, [...]

The Pakistani government has cut export subsidies by Rs8 billion, thus doing away with the vast powers exercised by customs authorities in determining customs rebate for the textile, leather, engineering [...]

The Indian government has issued a list of 50 items for which it plans to eliminate or reduce tariff for imports from Pakistan. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Indian Prime Minister, [...]

According to Pakistan News (May 1, 2001), Pakistani mango exports exhibit significant growth potential to boost in Saudi Arabia with the help of better presentation, proper grading and uniform packaging, [...]

According to Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper (April 2, 2001), a fierce competition is prevailing nowadays amongst the Saudi rice importers. Each of the local rice importers is seeking to enlarge or [...]

According to Pakistan News (March 24, 2001), the leader of a trade delegation from Sharjah, Sheikh Saqu AI Qassimi, expressed the need to boost the bilateral trade ties between Sharjah [...]

According to Asia News (January 30, 2001), Pakistan intends to increase its exports to African nations from a current $415 million to $1 billion, Commerce Minister Abdul Razak Dawood revealed. [...]

According to Pakistan Export Promotion Bureau chairman Tariq Ikram, Pakistan has received $102.9 million worth of export tenders from Iraq, 'Asia Pulse' reported. Ikram said his efforts to increase trade [...]

According to AGWEB (November 21, 2000), Iran has shown keen interest in importing wheat from Pakistan to satiate a one million-ton shortfall in its domestic requirement. A Pakistani delegation is [...]

Iran may buy 7.5 million tons of foreign wheat this year, and recent efforts by the U.S. wheat industry to encourage Iran to buy American grain may have some success, [...]

According to the Individual (October 25, 2000), the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has expressed its willingness to purchase 1 million ton of wheat, valued at $120 million, from Pakistan, official [...]

The acting president of the Federation of the Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), Sardar Raza Mohammed Barrech, called on Islamabad to look into the possibility of an overland [...]

Al-Quds newspaper quotes reports in the Israeli press, according to which the Pakistani business community is calling on its government to establish diplomatic relations with Israel. Israel's Ma'ariv newspaper is [...]

According to Al-Hayat newspaper (July 2, 2000), official statistics show that the volume of exchanges between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan hit SR 2 billion ($533 million) in 1998, of which [...]

According to IRNA, Pakistan will export 15,000 tons of rice to Iran. The decision to this effect was taken after the visit of a high level delegation of trading corporation [...]

(By Ben Partridge) Economists predicted after the collapse of the Soviet Union that the newly independent Central Asian nations would extend their trade links with Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey, creating [...]