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\nISLAMABAD
\nAmbassador-designate to Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the WTO, Geneva (Switzerland), Mujtaba Paracha has visited Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry and addressing the local business community assured that he would play role for promoting Pakistan\u2019s trade exports with foreign countries.
\nHe said that Pakistan\u2019s Permanent Mission to WTO was focused on trade promotion and he would try to maintain liaison with private sector to update it about the new opportunities for exports promotion.<\/p>\n
He said that the increase in preferential arrangements and free trade areas between some members of WTO was eroding market access and stressed that Pakistan\u2019s private sector should adopt a proactive approach to find new markets for improving Pakistan\u2019s exports.<\/p>\n
Mujtaba Paracha briefed the business community about the role of WTO which was the only international organization dealing with the rules of trade between the nation in order to facilitate smooth trade flow in world markets.<\/p>\n
He said that the current government was sending trade and investment officers in Pakistan\u2019s foreign missions abroad with set targets as promoting exports was its high priority.<\/p>\n
He said that government has done lot of work on fisheries, e-commerce and other areas and assured that he would try to find new opportunities for private sector to further enhance Pakistan\u2019s exports.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the occasion, President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry said that Pakistan needed drastic efforts to boost exports for improving its economy and stressed that government should take measures to uplift the exporters.<\/p>\n
He said that cooperation of Pakistan\u2019s foreign missions with chambers of commerce was important in identifying new markets for exportable products.<\/p>\n
He said that the Ambassador-designate should share information about top imports of Switzerland with ICCI so that its members could take benefit of potential business opportunities.<\/p>\n
Tahir Abbasi Senior Vice President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry said that Pakistan needed to diversity its exports and urged that foreign missions should play active role in finding out non-traditional markets for Pakistani products.<\/p>\n
They said that Pakistan could learn a lot from Switzerland to promote its tourism sector and desired that the Ambassador-designate should cooperate in such efforts.=DNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DNA ISLAMABAD Ambassador-designate to Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the WTO, Geneva (Switzerland), Mujtaba Paracha has visited Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry and addressing the local business community assured that he would play role for promoting Pakistan\u2019s trade exports with foreign countries. He said that Pakistan\u2019s Permanent Mission to WTO was focused on trade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"\n