Dar reaffirms commitment to boost exports

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar chaired an inter-ministerial meeting on Wednesday, 28 October, to discuss ways to increase Pakistan’s exports, Business Recorder reported. Participants considered international trade promotion and access to markets, as well as human-rights, labour-rights and environmental-governance issues connected with the country’s international commitments.

Dar stressed better trade facilitation and improvements in the quality of Pakistani products, while calling for wider access to markets through fuller use of the European Union’s GSP+ framework. He reiterated that boosting exports requires coordinated work across government and instructed the relevant ministries to keep their trade-facilitation efforts moving. The meeting included officials from federal and provincial bodies, AJK and Pakistan’s ambassador to Belgium and the EU.