SIALKOTSouth African high commissioner in Pakistan Mpendula Kumalo has pledged to make an all-out effort to remove all the bottlenecks to promote the bilateral trade between Pakistan and South Africa. Talking to the industrialists and exporters during his visit to some leading industrial units in ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and China Wednesday vowed to further consolidate their time-tested ties and signed a number of accords and MoUs, including the one for establishing an economic corridor that would provide air, rail and road connectivity to bolster bilateral trade between the neighbouring ...

Lahore - Chinese Prime Minister Li Kiqiang is arriving in Islamabad on a two-day visit today (Wednesday) with assurance to the world community that ‘China will not seek hegemony even when it grows stronger’.In a written interview to the Pakistani media on the eve of his maiden visit as ...

Leader of the opposition in Senate, Senator Ishaq Dar met US Ambassador Robin Raphel in his chamber at Parliament house here Wednesday.Both sides discussed bilateral issues and emphasized the need for further enhancing cooperation in various fields. Dar stressed the need for US assistance in ...

lahore - President Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) Zubair Ahmad Malik Monday said that the forthcoming visit of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to Pakistan would enhance the volume of trade between private sectors of both the countries.The FPCCI chief while talking to ...

RAWALPINDI : Illicit cigarette tradeis hampering the economy of Pakistan and it is important for all law enforcement agencies to effectively enforce laws to tackle this menace.  This was stated by Abdul Razaq Cheema CPO Rawalpindi while inaugurating the capacity building training workshop for ...

KARACHI - The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has urged the ministry of commerce (MoC) to include rice in addition to wheat for barter with Iran against electricity and stated that it would be a wise step to re-enter the market for selling country’s popular rice varieties to ...

BRUSSELS - The latest tit-for-tat EU-China trade disputes could signal worse to come but both sides have a lot to lose if things get out of hand and harm the much-needed economic growth they seek, analysts said.In May alone, the two have locked horns over solar panels, steel tubes and telecoms ...

NEW YORK - Europe’s top trade official for the first time late on Friday officially cited Chinese mobile telecommunications equipment makers Huawei and ZTE Corp for violating anti-dumping and anti-subsidy guidelines.European Union Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said he was prepared to ...

lahore - Government wants to work as a team with business community of Pakistan with regards to normalisation of trade with India. This was stated by Commerce Minister, Maqbool H. H. Rahimtoola, who was heading a meeting with the representatives of Pakistani chapter of Pakistan–India Joint ...

ISLAMABAD : Pakistan services trade deficit narrowed by 80.99pc during the first three quarters of the current fiscal year as exports surged by over 36.94pc with imports showing negative growth of 4.33pc.The overall services’ exports were recorded at $5.336b during July-March (2012-13) ...

TOKYO : The dollar held firm versus the yen in Asian trade Wednesday, clinging to recent gains after upbeat US data with analysts saying the greenback could climb higher.On Tuesday, the dollar jumped amid gains in US equity markets and more signs of a US economic recovery, rising as high as 102.40 ...

SIALKOT The Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry and other main trade bodies in the district have greeted the PML-N for its marvelous victory and becoming the biggest party of the country after the May 11 general elections.Addressing a joint press conference held at the SCCI auditorium, the ...

TOKYO  - The dollar's rally against the yen stumbled Tuesday as investors looked for concrete signs that the US Federal Reserve would roll back its huge bond-buying programme. The dollar broke through the 102-yen level in Asian trading Monday on the back of speculation that the Fed could be ...

islamabad - In a positive development, the country’s trade deficit decreased by 6.75 per cent during the first ten months of the current fiscal year as exports increased by 4.23 per cent and imports decreased by 1.02pc.The overall exports from the country increased from $19.329 billion in ...

islamabad - Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) organised Pak-Azerbaijan Business Forum to highlight the trade and business opportunities between Pakistan and Azerbaijan.Dashgin Sharirov, Ambassador of Azerbaijan, Atadjan N Movlamov, Ambassador of Turkmenistan, Gononov S Sherali, ...

LAHORE :-The British government is committed to a long-term, productive and friendly partnership with Pakistan and the UK considers Pakistan a long-term strategic partner and will continue to support all its endeavors aimed at expansion of bilateral trade relations. UK High Commissioner Adam Thomas ...

TOKYO : The dollar broke through the 102-yen level in Asian trading Monday after Tokyo sidestepped criticism over the unit's steep decline at a weekend Group of Seven (G7) meeting in Britain. Speculation that the US Federal Reserve could be the first among major central banks to roll back its huge ...

SHANGHAI : China’s yuan had its best day of the year on Wednesday after trade data showed export growth beating expectations, highlighting the possibility that firms are manipulating trade invoices in order to skirt China’s capital controls and bet on yuan appreciation. China’s ...

karachi - Mohammad Haroon Agar, President Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has said that Pakistan is the most promising land in the region for the fresh British investment as many British corporations are operating successfully and expanding their businesses across Pakistan and beyond.He ...

ISLAMABAD : The Harvest Tradings CEO Ahmed Jawad has said that to boost trade with the neighbouring country, caretaker government needed to review Pak-India trade agreement. He said that there was not other option than enhancing trade to normalise the bilateral political and diplomatic relations ...

abuja - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and his South African counterpart Jacob Zuma will discuss ways to boost trade between Africa's two biggest economies during talks in Cape Town next week.Jonathan will leave Abuja on Monday for a two-day state visit ahead of the World Economic Forum on ...

karachi - Brazil is the largest trade partner of Pakistan in Latin America. This was stated by President Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry while meeting with Alfredo Leoni, Ambassador of Brazil to Pakistan. He said that current volume of bilateral trade which is just $102 ...

islamabad  - Pakistan and Palestine need to focus on developing bilateral trade cooperation to create better economic opportunities for their people, Walid A.M. Abu Ali, Ambassador of Palestine said while addressing the business community at Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry.He said ...

KARACHI : The Ambassador of Denmark to Pakistan, Ole E.Moesby, has termed the trade ties between the two countries is very stable and improved.“We can do more than what we are doing now”, he remarked and added that the trade relations between Denmark and Pakistan can be improved ...

COLOMBO : The High Commissioner of Pakistan in Sri Lanka Qasim Qureshi visited Galle District of the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. During the visit to Galle, the High Commissioner participated in a meeting with the officials of the Galle District Chamber of Commerce & Industry.  The ...

ISLAMABAD : Pakistan and Egypt have trustworthy political relations and enjoying excellent diplomatic relations, therefore both the countries should also consider to improve economic ties and bilateral trade relations.These remarks were made by Said Mohamed El-Said Hindam, Ambassador of Egypt in ...

ISLAMABAD : Great potential exists for expansion in trade and economic relations between Pakistan and the Philippine and the two countries could be successfully tapped through increased contacts between the business sectors. These remarks were made by Domingo Lucenario, Ambassador of Philippine in ...

ISLAMABAD (APP): Chinese entrepreneurs Tuesday invited  Pakistani businessmen to participate in Kashgar trade fair and other such important events for enhancing bilateral trade and investment between the two countries. “Kashgar Special Economic Zone has attracted a large number of ...

lahore - The representatives of trade and industry, while threatening civil disobedience because of government’s non-seriousness to control power outages, have urged the authorities to shun discriminatory attitude and provide electricity and gas to the industry in Punjab.President Sahiwal ...