SIALKOT: The European Union (EU) experts have put emphasis for capacity building of private sector, particularly city-based exporters and SMEs on the GSP-Plus scheme.
Addressing the participants of a day-long training workshop, EU GSP-Plus Scheme-Business Guide, EU experts Jogi Oshiai and Josephine Koopman gave detailed presentations on the EU Trade System and the GSP-Plus scheme.
The experts said the scheme provided tariff preferences, adding that there was a need to meet other requirements for exporting to the EU.
They added that the EU had developed a business guide which provided information on market entry requirements to the EU in selected sectors of Pakistan’s interest.
“The EU’s foreign experts on the GSP-Plus are visiting Pakistan to impart training to the business community, enabling the private sector to understand a procedure to be followed for exporting to the EU,” they said further.
Koopman said Sialkot exporters had a great potential to explore and capture the EU trade markets by exporting their diversified traditional and non-traditional export products under the GSP Plus scheme.
Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) Acting President Mir Alamgir Meyer, VP Malik Naseer Ahmed, Pakistan Gloves Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PGMEA) Chairman Muhammad Younas, SVC Sheikh Ejaz Jammu, Shehzada Iben Iqbal Syed and a large number of exporters attended the workshop.
