Tag: Manufacturers

PFA launches province-wide crackdown on energy drinks

LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) on Tuesday launched a massive crackdown on energy drinks across the province as the deadline given to manufacturers...

Denying farmers subsidy: Manufacturers, dealers hoard fertiliser right under Punjab govt’s...

Fertiliser manufacturing companies getting payments in drafts to be cut after July 1 when subsidised rates are in place The budget 2016-17 has brought huge...

Govt gives new carmakers concessions in Auto Policy

Duty-free import of new plants and reduction in duty on parts provisioned for new entrants for five years The government announced on Monday that foreign...

Cement manufacturers to maintain prices

Cement manufacturers are maintaining cement prices although the taxation measures announced by the government in the federal budget have dampened their spirits as expected...

Pakistan Auto show 2013 begins today

The Pakistan Association of Automotive Parts and Accessories Manufacturers (PAAPAM) is holding Pakistan Auto Show 2013 at the Expo Centre, Karachi, from Friday (today),...

Pharmaceutical industry opposes MFN status for India

Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association of Pakistan (PPMA) expressed grave concern over the government’s seeming insistence on granting MFN status to India without taking into account...

Gas suspension jeopardises billions of rupees’ export

Export orders to the tune of billions of rupees are in jeopardy due to the massive load shedding and suspension of gas supply to...

‘Urea manufacturers have given farmers Rs 365b boost’

The domestic urea manufacturing plants have provided a benefit of Rs 365 billion to the farmers over the last five years, said the Fertilizer...

Call for freezing 5pc GST on tractors for another year

Pakistan Association of Automotive Parts & Accessories Manufacturers (PAAPAM) Saturday urged the government to extend the reduced levy of 5 percent on tractors sale...

Cement in quagmire

Cement despatches for the month of October decreased by 5.87 percent primarily because of a drastic decline of 20.59 percent in cement export, said...

Auto sector welcomes ECC decision to gradually cut tariff regime

The Pakistan Association of Automotive Parts and Accessories Manufacturers (PAAPAM) has welcomed the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) decision to gradually bring down tariff regime...

ECC urged to consult with local industry

Pakistan Automotive Manufacturers Association (PAMA) urged Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) to take industry’s point of view into consideration before taking any decision with regards...

Local auto parts industry suffering due to import of used cars

The local production of cars has registered a massive reduction by 22,000-25,000 units owing to import of 50,000 used cars in a year, besides...

Rupee depreciation puts textile industry in hot waters

The current rupee depreciation against the dollar is expected to bode well for the margins for local textile manufacturers during the outgoing FY12, observed...

FBR chairman claims that exports would hike Once government gets on...

The government would support the manufacturers through prudent policies and encourage them to enhance the capacity and transfers of technology which will not only...

Auto vendors pumped up!

Pakistan Association of Automotive Parts & Accessories Manufacturers Chairman Syed Nabeel Hashmi has termed the Budget 2012-13 normal, as under the circumstances its...

Steel manufacturers show serious concern over MFN status to India

Local steel manufacturers showed concern over giving status of Most Favoured Nation (MFN) to India, saying it would pose threats to the steel industry...