Speakers stress for fully reaping benefits from the facility to enhance country\u2019s export
\n PESHAWAR
\nSarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry in collaboration with Trade Development Authority of Pakistan on Monday organized an awareness seminar on Impacts of GSP Plus status and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on export promotion.
\nSession was chaired by SCCI president Fazal Moqeem Khan.
\nThe chamber senior vice president Abdul Jalil Jan, vice president Shehryar Khan, members of executive committee of the chamber Saifullah Khan, Adnan Nasir, Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Rabia Basri, and other office bearers, along with exporters Dr Khushal Khan, Mazarul Haq, Atif Rashid Khawaja, Rashid Iqbal Siddiqui, Fazal Wahid, Faiz Rasool, Ishtiaq Muhammad Paracha, Secretary General SCCI Muqtasid Ahsan and traders were attended the session.
\nDirector TDAP Nauman Bashir, Deputy Director Zahid Muhammad, trainer
\nFazal Moqeem in his opening remarks stressed the need to reap full benefits from GSP plus status and Free Trade Agreements to enhance the country\u2019s exports.
\nHe was of the view that immense potential was available in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that can improve the export.
\nHe, however, mentioned that export process has adversely affected owing to imposition of two percent provincial infrastructure development cess (IDC) on export, resultantly export had completely shifted to other parts of the country.
\nSCCI President urged the provincial government of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to completely abolish the two percent cess to revive the export from the province.
\nSenior officials of the TDAP apprised participants about significance of GSP Plus status and FTAs whereas the trainer through his a multimedia presentation elaborated session about key procedures, rules and regulations, bilateral trade pacts between various states and other major points that were essential for taking advantages for the GSP plus status and FTAs that had been signed by Pakistan with various countries.
\nParticipants lauded the efforts of sarhad chamber and TDAP for arranging such an informative session and asked a number of questions which were responded by senior officials in an elaborative manner.
\nMembers of the chamber proposed holding further such sensitization sessions on trade-related rules and regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Speakers stress for fully reaping benefits from the facility to enhance country\u2019s export PESHAWAR Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry in collaboration with Trade Development Authority of Pakistan on Monday organized an awareness seminar on Impacts of GSP Plus status and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on export promotion. Session was chaired by SCCI president Fazal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-486136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"\n