RAWALPINDI: Dastgir said that the Ministry of Commerce was in constant consultation with Federal Board of Revenue to seek an agreeable solution of the issuance of SROs and the nation would be hearing good news in next budget.
Federal Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir said this while addressing a function at Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI).
The minister said that the government was taking sincere steps to offer maximum facilitation for the enhancement of industrial sector with the special emphasis to create more job opportunities besides offering respectable employment opportunities to the youth.
On Free Trade agreement (FTA), the federal minister said that there was no proposal under consideration to offer status of Most Favourite Nation to India but the discriminatory regime would be overcome for the accomplishment of FTA clauses which is binding on Pakistan as a signatory to World Trade Organization.
Giving emphasis on the promotion of regional trade, he said that the government through experience of the past had been considering improvement in relations with the bordering countries for an ultimate good of the peoples of the regional countries.
When his attention was drawn towards the matter of quality and control assurance of Pakistani products, he said that the existing laboratories were being strengthened besides considering private sector to establish laboratories under certain rules and procedures.
Earlier, President RCCI Dr Shimail Daud Arain in his welcome speech said that RCCI had been making all out efforts to enhance the country’s exports by organizing single country expos in different countries around the globe.
