{"id":257250,"date":"2022-04-25T04:31:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T23:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=257250"},"modified":"2022-04-25T04:31:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T23:31:55","slug":"rcci-urges-to-promote-gems-and-jewelry-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/rcci-urges-to-promote-gems-and-jewelry-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"RCCI urges to promote gems and jewelry sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rawalpindi: The Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) has urged the government to promote non-conventional sectors like gems and jewelry. Pakistan is rich in natural resources of gems and stones. RCCI president Nadeem Rauf said in a statement that the Government should come forward and add incentives to reduce taxes on import of machinery and other raw materials used in this sector. Pakistan always focused on traditional sectors to increase exports, however, we must look for new opportunities and sectors like gems and jewellery to attract foreign investment as countries like Thai land, Sri Lanka and Central Asian states have shown interest, he added. He informed that the chamber is going to organize a third Gems and jewelry exhibition in the third week of May in Islamabad. Our Correspondent<br \/>\nThe main purpose of this expo was to attract foreign investment in non-conventional sectors like gems and jewellery and to promote small and medium enterprise (SME), he added.<br \/>\nHe said that the exhibition would provide an opportunity to the businessmen to showcase the best of Pakistani gemstones, diamonds, jewellery, and mineral specimens from across the country.<br \/>\nNadeem Rauf informed that Pakistan has enormous wealth of expensive gems such as ruby, emerald, tourmaline, garnet, topaz, peridot, aquamarine, spinel, pargasite, diopside, moonstone, pink topaz, sapphire, zircon, feldspar, agate, serpentine jade, epidote, pink beryl (morganite), purple beryl, sphene, zoisite, lapis lazuli, turquoise, and kunzite etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rawalpindi: The Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) has urged the government to promote non-conventional sectors like gems and jewelry. Pakistan is rich in natural resources of gems and stones. RCCI president Nadeem Rauf said in a statement that the Government should come forward and add incentives to reduce taxes on import of machinery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-257250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>RCCI urges to promote gems and jewelry sector<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/rcci-urges-to-promote-gems-and-jewelry-sector\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RCCI urges to promote gems and jewelry sector\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rawalpindi: The Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) has urged the government to promote non-conventional sectors like gems and jewelry. 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