Tag: Imports

ECC age restriction on used car imports to boost local auto...

Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) in its Thursday’s meeting decided to revise downward, the age limit of imported used cars to three years which market...

Gold imports fall 22.73 percent

The gold imports into the country fell in first quarter of current fiscal year by 22.73 per cent against the same period of last...

Exports > imports

The exports from the country witnessed positive growth of 4.26 percent while the imports decreased by 2.37 percent during the first quarter of the...

Serious food for thought

Food imports into the country witnessed decrease of 9.02 percent during the first two months of the current fiscal year as compared to the...

Mobile, telecommunication imports increase in July

The Telecommunication imports during the first month of the ongoing fiscal year (2012-13) increased by 12.98 percent and 16.24 percent as compared to the...

Food for thought…

Food imports into the country decreased to $ 5.048 billion during Financial Year (2011-12), showing negative growth of 0.60 percent when compared to the...

Excessive imports beat the daylight out of urea sales

February saw urea offtake in the country sharply declining by 61 percent to 160k tons, marking one of the lowest monthly sales figures in...

Pakistan to allow petrol imports from India

The Pakistani government is expected to bring out a notification next month allowing import of certain goods, including petrol and food items from India,...

8pc hike in tea imports from India likely

The process of trade normalisation with India will not affect the imports of tea from the neighbouring country as the item has already been...

Pakistan trade deficit widens to $14.6 billion in July-Feb

Pakistan's trade deficit widened by 41 percent to $14.6 billion in the first eight months of the 2011/12 fiscal year, compared with $10.34 billion...

Pakistan fuel oil imports fell 0.9 pc

Pakistan bought less than 400,000 tonnes of fuel oil for the second consecutive month this year, official data showed on Thursday. Total fuel oil imports...

Pakistan imports rice from India for the first time

In the post MFN regime, Pakistan for the first time has started importing rice from India. In an interesting development, Pakistan, which is already...

‘India won’t cut Iranian oil imports despite US, EU sanctions’

India, the world’s fourth-largest oil consumer, will not take steps to cut petroleum imports from Iran despite US and European sanctions against Tehran, finance...

FBR notifies zero pc tax rate on imports

Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and government announced through notification that goods on which sales tax shall — subject to conditions stated in this...

Tax evasion in tinplate imports causing losses to National Exchequer

The local markets are flooded with tinplate and Cold Roll Coil (CRC) that have been imported through misdeclaration of goods via Iran and...

Government orders probe against TCP for violating instruction of urea imports

Taking serious notice of violation of its decision on the urea imports by the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) through the Gwadar port, the...

Malaysia urged to expand imports of Pak products

Pakistan and Malaysia on Monday have agreed to enhance bilateral economic cooperation and explore avenues for joint ventures in a host of sectors, including...