SIALKOT: Ambassador of Spain in Pakistan Mr Carlos Morales on has said that Spain was much keen to boost mutual trade ties with Pakistan, pledging to make efforts to remove hurdles from the way of promoting the mutual trade between the both countries.
He said this while addressing a meeting held at the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) here, the ambassador said that the time was high to do more for further increasing mutual trade ties between Pakistan and Spain.
SCCI President Zahid Latif Malik, SVP Abdul Waheed and VP Abid Ahmed Khawaja presided over the meeting while other senior officials of the Spanish Embassy also attended the meeting.
The ambassador said that the Spain was much keen to develop strong business-to-business contacts with Pakistan besides focusing on promoting the SMEs in Pakistan on modern lines and paving the ways to find out opportunities to advanced technology transfer to Pakistan from Spain.
Carlos Morales also assured of making all-out sincere efforts to increase the mutual trade volume in favour of Pakistan as well. He said that B2B contacts could help boost the mutual trade ties between Pakistan and Spain, adding that Spain was ready to make mutual strenuous efforts for this purpose. The ambassador invited Sialkot exporters to divert their business activities to Spain, saying that Sialkot exporters were much aware of international quality standards and they also had great potential to explore and capture international trade markets of Spain and the EU countries through Spain as well by exporting their diversified traditional and non-traditional export products. He said that Spain was the second country in the world who arranged most trade exhibition and seminars in his country. The ambassador assured exporters their easy access to international Spanish trade markets and even the EU trade markets through Spain as well. He also asked Sialkot exporters to participate in the international trade fairs and exhibitions to be held in Spain as well.
SCCI President Zahid Latif Malik said that Sialkot exporters had a great potential to explore and capture international trade markets of Spain by exporting their worldclass traditional and non-traditional export products.
For improving bilateral trade, Sialkot exporters suggested that exchange of trade delegations and one-to-one meetings of businessmen of both sides may be arranged, he added. On this occasion, Sialkot exporters said that Spain had always been a close partner of Pakistan in terms of bilateral trade and socio-economic development.
“There is an urgent need for diversification of exports as Pakistan and Spain have tremendous potential for business communities at the both sides”, they added. “We firmly believe that with Spanish technology and Pakistani craftsmanship, we could do wonders in the international markets”, the exporters hoped.
