PCMEA proposes authority for export sector facilitation.

LAHORE -- The Pakistan Carpet Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PCMEA) has asked the government to establish an authority comprising focal persons of export sectors, foreign embassies, State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and other related departments to remove barriers to exports, explore new markets, accessing them and effective advertising and marketing.

'It is very difficult for a country of a 250 million population to run with the current volume of exports, government patronage along with a long-term policy to promote exports is also inevitable,' PCMEA Vice Chairman Usman Ashraf stated this in the Association's weekly review meeting here Sunday. The CTI (Carpet Training Institute) Chairperson Ijazur Rehman, senior central leader Abdul Latif Malik, senior member Riaz Ahmed, Saeed Khan, Major (Retd) Akhtar Nazir, Shahid Hasan Sheikh, Umair Usman and others were also present.

Usman Ashraf said that the government, through the facilitation council, is trying to remove the red tape in the way of foreign investment and Pakistan's export sectors also require the same strategy for the promotion of...