Rising metal prices in int'l market hitting local industry.

KARACHI -- Chairman of National Business Group of FPCCI, President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum and All Karachi Industrial Alliance, and former provincial minister Mian Zahid Hussain on Wednesday said rising metal prices in the international market is hitting construction and other industries therefore all duties on import of metals should be waived.

Taxes and duties on steel, iron, copper and aluminum should be waived to support the construction package which was introduced to support economic activities.

Mian Zahid Hussain said that pandemic has increased prices of iron, steel, copper, brass, aluminum, rubber and many other things...

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