Tag: Imports

China's key commodity imports, including crude oil, copper and iron ore, all climbed in August from the previous month, adding to evidence that demand...

Pakistan, where influx of Chinese goods has been witnessed after the Free Trade Agreement signed between the two countries, has imported cell phones worth...

Since establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries in May 1951, Pakistan and China have developed an all-season friendship, which is based on...

Chairman National Fertiliser Corporation Mr. Khalid Malik said that 153k metric tones of urea has been imported to fulfill the needs of farmers, so...

While forming a task force for swift implementation of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) imports, Petroleum Minister Dr. Asim Hussain on Tuesday assured that a...

Pakistan is likely to achieve record exports of around $25 billion at the conclusion of the current fiscal year. Though the major contributor in...

Pakistan’s fuel oil imports for May more than doubled from April’s three-year low volumes to around 700,000 tonnes, while tender requirements indicated the country...

Pakistan’s dollar reserves have sustained a declining trend as the oil and food imports bill has climbed to $32 billion in the first 10...

The federal Ministry of Commerce (MoC) has finally decided to permit the import of three-year old used buses. The draft notification has been prepared,...

KARACHI - Pakistan Chemicals and Dyes Merchants Association (PCDMA) Chairman Muhammad Haroon Agar, in a press statement, stated that import activities have started to gain momentum, with FBR's decision to maintain zero-rating on imports.
Agar said that, before the decision, commercial importers had serious reservations regarding the SRO-509(I)/2007, however, their reservations were well appraised by Businessmen Group Chairman and former KCCI President Siraj Kassam Teli, along

ISLAMABAD - Malaysian companies are eagerly seeking to invest in livestock and dairy sectors in Pakistan to increase the import of halal meat and dairy products to the tune of $1.0 billion per annum.
This was revealed by Board of Investment (BOI) Chairman Saleem H. Mandviwalla at a joint news conference with the Ambassador of Malaysia Dato Ahmad Anwar Bin Adnan in a media briefing on the upcoming Pakistan investment conference in Kuala Lumpur. The conference has been arranged in

KARACHI - The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is to restore with immediate effect the Forward Cover Facility (FCF) against the imports to meet the genuine needs of importers. According to an issued SBP circular, the restored facility would be subject to compliance of all related instructions contained in Chapter IV, FEM-2002 and the following terms and conditions: 1. Forward cover facility will be made available to importers against the Letter of Credit only. 2. No forward cover facility

ISLAMABAD - The Palm oil imports into the country during January 2011 decreased by 12.60 percent as compared to the imports of December 2010. However, as compared to the imports of the January last year, the palm oil imports increased by 64.13 percent during the month under review, Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) reported. The palm oil imports into the country were recorded at $165.282 million in January 2011 against the imports of $189.109 million in December 2010 and $100.703

NEW DELHI - India will process 12 percent more domestic oilseed crops into cooking oil this year, trimming imports of edible oil by up to five percent in the first such slowing in five years, easing global prices and blunting food-driven inflation.
India, the world's top buyer of vegetable oils, appears to be following China in using cheaper oilseeds and cutting imports of Southeast Asian palm oil and Latin American soyoil to feed its population of more than a billion.