RAWALPINDI: Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) has organized National Exporters Training Program (NETP) at Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) in collaboration with IBA-Karachi here on Tuesday.
Shehzad Ahamd Khan, Director General TDAP informed that the major objective of this program was to share the trade knowledge in terms of available resources, international trends, TDAP’s facilitation initiatives for exporters, role and importance of export planning and execution, so as to equip our potential and new traders/manufacturers who are eager to export. He also briefed the participants about the National Exporters Training Program (NETP), an initiative taken by TDAP to facilitate exporters. NETP would be held in several cities/commercial centres of the country, he added.
Dr. Adil Nakhuda, Assistant Professor, Dr. Najam Akbar, Assistant Professors from IBA- Karachi presented four distinct modules that would help prospective exporters in converting an export inquiry into actual exports.
RCCI President Saboor Malik in his address appreciated TDAP on arranging the program for sharing much needed knowledge and experience on Export Development.
He asked for exploring new sectors and access to long distance areas for promoting exporters at SMEs level. Guest Speakers Mr. Gonzalo J. Varela, Senior Economist, Macro Economics, Trade and Investment Global Practice and Ms. Adja Mansora Dahourou, Senior Private Sector Specialist from World Bank also attended the session and appreciated the initiatives of TDAP. Guest Speaker Dr. Manzoor Ahmad, Former FBR Member and Former Ambassador to WTO covered the module of Export Documentation.
More than 50 manufacturers, traders, women entrepreneurs, new exporters and executive members of RCCI attended the session. Director TDAP Ishaq Shinwari, officials, Senior Vice President Nosherwan Khalil, Vice President Hamza Sarosh, member of the executive committee and members also attended the session.
The program was concluded with the distribution of ‘Certificates of participation’ to all those who attended the program.
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