LAHORE - The Pakistan Sugar Mills Association has appreciated the PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif over his overwhelming victory in the elections 2013 in centre as well as in Punjab, hoping the new government will work for increasing exports particularly of sugar, which has great potential in the ...

islamabad - Harvest Tradings CEO Ahmad Jawad said country trade missions may compel to use mango diplomacy in letter & spirit to tap the high values market of mango in bulk volumes. He said it is unfortunate that being the world’s largest producer and exporter of mangoes, India beats ...

islamabad - The government is struggling to achieve annual exports target of $27 billion during the ongoing financial year 2012-13 due to the unending power shortage in the country and global economic situation.“The commerce ministry has set an ambitious exports target at the time when ...

karachi - Halal export market offers $ 1.3 billion potential and EPZA should submit a detailed proposal, on priority basis for establishment of halal export processing zones in Pakistan. It is ironic to note that most of halal product demand is fulfilled by Non –Muslim countries, whereas ...

islamabad - US-Pakistan Business Council should play its role in convincing the US trade mission and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to formulate a soft policy regarding import of Pakistani mangoes.This was stated by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Harvest Tradings Ahmad Jawad ...

FAISALABAD - The target set for textile export for year 2012-13 will not be achieved due to the loadshedding, especially gas shortage. While the industrialists are being shifted their units to neighbouring countries due to worst prevailing business scenario in the country, said Faisalabad Chamber ...

LAHORE - The export orders are on the decline due to unavailability of gas to produce value-added ‘parboiled rice’, which may increase foreign exchange earnings by 15 per cent due to value-addition.The millers have demanded the SNGPL to formulate a comprehensive curtailment policy in ...

KARACHI - The general administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China, after thorough evaluation on the “Improvement Report” provided by the MFD on December 10, 2012, has allowed continuation of fish export from four fish meal ...

LAHORE - Image problem and energy shortage are two major challenges of textile industry in Pakistan that lost $10 billion export opportunity in last seven years while the regional competitors grew enormously during the same time. This was stated by Secretary APTMA Punjab Anis-ul-Haq during a ...

KARACHI - Pakistan has already achieved the current financial year's export target of 0.2 million tons of kinnow while the export still continues. Russia emerged the biggest buyer, where 40 percent of Pakistan kinnow was exported. Pakistan Fruit Exporters Association's chairman, Waheed Ahmad said ...

Managing Director of National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Javad Oji said that Iran plans to export 21 million cubic meters gas per day initially to Pakistan via the peace pipeline.Talking to IRNA on the sidelines of a ceremony marking start of operation to pipe Iranian gas to Pakistan‚ he said ...

FAISALABAD - Exports of Agriculture and Livestock products from Pakistan have recorded an upward trend in the recent years. However, this development is much less than the actual potential and is confined to conventional wholesale markets. Their share in the fast growing high price end super ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has missed annual exports target by $2.359 billion in the previous financial year 2011-12, as it recorded only $23.641 billion in the period under review against the target of $26 billion chiefly due to the prevailing energy crisis in the country and lower textile commodities ...

KARACHI - Saifuddin N Zoomkawala, chairman of the EFU Insurance, has asked the government, policy-makers and exporters to continue their efforts to promote exports of textile and other traditional items, but without further neglecting the exports of non-traditional items.The country has never ...

KARACHI  - Pakistan can export its entire home textiles items, bed linen, cement and coarse count cotton yarn to India if trade is opened between the two neighbours.This was stated by the Federal Advisor on Textile Dr Mirza Ikhtiar Baig while speaking at the inauguration of 9th Textile Asia ...

ISLAMABAD  - Ministry of Food Security and Research is planning to submit a summary regarding export of 100,000 live animals, including goats, cows and camels, to the Middle East, Afghanistan and Iran.Talking to APP, an official in the ministry said that the figures issued by statistics showed ...

ISLAMABAD - Apart from rendering thousand of people unemployed, the ongoing energy crisis had badly affected the country’s textile sector that would result in reduction in its export by $5 billion by the end of current financial year 2011-12, The Nation has learnt on Monday. “The ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan will export one million tons of wheat to Iran under barter trade system and in exchange will import fertilizer and iron ore from Iran.Iran will also import 200,000 ton rice from Pakistan in order to enhance bilateral trade and economic ties. This was discussed and finalized ...

ISLAMABAD :The export of kinnows from the country to Indonesia is expected to reach 40,000 tonnes during the current season. Pakistan and Indonesia have signed a preferential trade agreement to enhance trade between the two countries. The agreement stipulates Indonesian reduced tariffs to Pakistan ...

LAHORE - Basmati Growers Association (BGA) has said that Basmati export potential stands at $ 4 billion while country hardly touches $1 billion mark.Hamid Malhi, President of BGA, while talking to members of Agriculture Journalist Association (AJA) here at LCCI on Wednesday, said instead of ...

LAHORE – The Punjab government has asked Islamabad to revise the decision of exporting sugar, saying that lifting of ban amidst the crushing season is dangerous as it is likely to create shortage of the white sweetener in the country.Official sources told The Nation that after the recent ...

ISLAMABAD/DUBAI  – The government has approved the export of sugar for the first time in nearly three years, spurred by an expected surplus of more than 1 million tons, but the move is unlikely to affect the global market, which has priced in rising output in other countries.Pakistan was ...

ISLAMABAD : The exports of surgical goods from the country during the first half of current financial year increased by 19.17pc. During the period from July-Dec 2011, the country earned about $142.7m by exporting the surgical goods and medical instruments. According to the PBS, the export of ...

ISLAMABAD - The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet on Tuesday has decided to allow exporting 100,000 tonnes of sugar due to expected bumper production of the commodity after a period of ban for nearly three years.The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet, which met ...

LAHORE – The Punjab Agriculture & Meat Company has finalized several trade deals with foreign companies for the export of local livestock and agri products during a visit to the international Green Week being held in Berlin. Many foreign companies, including Triposona of Spain and ...

FAISALABAD - Textile industry is on the brink destruction as production and exports are falling with every passing day due to gas closures and electricity loadshedding in Punjab, the Pakistan Textile Exporters Association chairman told media representatives here.“The Punjab industries have ...

JUBA/BEIJING  - South Sudan will announce plans for an oil export pipeline through East Africa next week, a priority for the new nation because its crude is “no longer safe” in Sudan, a government spokesman said on Saturday.Landlocked South Sudan took about three quarters of ...

SYED DANISH HUSSAINISLAMABAD - It was minutes before the entrance of members of an Indian parliamentary delegation in the National Assembly Hall, where Senate session was in progress, when Commerce Minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim’s confirmation regarding export of liquor to India triggered a hue ...

FAISALABAD - The volume of textile export orders have decreased in Heimtextil from 25 million dollars to 3 million this year due to energy crisis and default on previous export commitments, said Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) Chairman Rana Arif Tauseef while addressing a press ...

ISLAMABAD – The fruit exporters have stressed the need for exploring new markets for kinnow export, as was done in case of mango last year, to boost the exports of this mandrain fruit.  “Currently Pakistani Kinnows (Mandarin) are mainly exported to UAE, Saudi Arabia, Russia and ...