SIALKOT: Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has urged the TDAP to evolve an effective direly needed mechanism for the “proper” use of the Export Development Fund (EDF), which was meant for the promotion and development of country’s export sector.
Addressing an important meeting of the Sialkot exporters held at SCCI here, the SCCI President Majid Raza Bhutta said that the Sialkot exporters deserve for all the EDF-related incentives for the promotion and enhancement in Sialkot exports. He pointed out that Sialkot’s export-oriented industries were being ignored regarding distribution of EDF due to the prolonged lacked mechanism.
SCCI President Majid Raza Bhutta also demanded a special package of trade relative incentives by TDAP especially the direly needed Research & Development funds for upgrading and modernizing the export-oriented industries of.
He added the advanced manufacturing and production technologies should immediately be brought in Pakistan from abroad for developing and boosting these industries in the larger national interest.
President Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) Majid Raza Bhutta urged the government to make some effective and positive measures for ensuring the continuity of the government’s effective and positive economical, industrial and trade policies for strengthening the national economy and promotion of sustainable trade activities in the country.
He said that the government’s encouragement and patronization was also vital for country’s business community which could also help business community in playing its pivotal role in pulling out the national economy from the stressful condition, besides, strengthening the national economy through increasing the exports.
On this occasion, the Sialkot exporters urged the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) to prepare an ultra modern advanced trade strategy for ensuring the maximum consumption of Sialkot made traditional and nontraditional export items in the international and world trade markets, following the global challenges of WTO…#
