Bilateral trade topic revisited again by President Trump, PM Khan: Nathan Seifert.

KARACHI -- Commercial Chief of US Department of Commerce Nathan Seifert, while referring to the recent meeting between US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Imran Khan, said that bilateral trade topic was revisited again during the third visit of Pakistan's Prime Minister to US which is very important for both the leaders.

'It's so nice to see Heads of the two states sitting down, having nice conversation and talking about what can be done together which is actually very important for the business people of both countries. Hence, US business people see that there are going to be opportunities here in Pakistan. United States is trying to normalize trade relationship and we are making good progress in increasing trade', he added while speaking at a meeting during his visit to Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI).

General Secretary BMG AQ Khalil, Acting President KCCI Arshad Islam, Vice President KCCI Shahid Ismail, Chairman Diplomatic Missions and Embassies Liaison Subcommittee Shamoon Zaki, Former President KCCI Haroon Agar, Senior Commercial Assistant at US Consulate in Karachi Tashfeen Mehdi and Managing Committee Members were also present at the meeting.

US Commercial Chief, while highlighting the purpose of his visit to KCCI, said, 'The main idea is to increase trade between the US and Pakistan. We are very pleased to see Pakistan's improvement in Ease of Doing Business and the good environment here that would certainly encourage people from US to come here and at times, investigate business opportunities in Pakistan. Trade is something which we want to do and it's something we are working on but in the meantime, there are a lot of challenges that we have to overcome.'

'There has been a great progress in Ease of doing business but there can be even more, we know that's possible', he added.

He was of the opinion that Pakistan has been exporting good quality products to US and the trade between the two countries continues to grow year by year. 'We also facilitate Pakistani products being exported to US but our main focus from our offices in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad is to bring US companies here and help them find the right partners that can be distribution partners or joint venture partners', said Nathan Seifert, 'We also take delegations from Pakistan to participate in US trade shows and to some regional trade shows as well which is really important for us. About 10 times each year, we take delegations from here to...