BEIJING: Pakistan is looking forward to exporting textile and
agriculture products to China through China International Import Expo
(CIIE) scheduled to be held in Shanghai in the first week of next month
November, Federal Secretary of Commerce, Younus Dagha Wednesday said.
“We feel that Pakistan has a great potential to export its textiles,
agricultural products to China and as we are in this government, we are
focusing more on value addition,” he told China Global Television
Network (CGTN) in an interview.
“We want to keep increasing our exports and China being the regional
economic superpower, we have lots of hopes, for this market to provide
access to Pakistani products,” he added.
When asked as the guest of honour country, how was Pakistan preparing to showcase at the mega event, he said.
“We are very thankful to Chinese that they have given us a very
special and privileged position in this fair, and we’ll try to match up
to the expectations and try to build up Pakistan’s image, not only as an
exporter of goods but also as a place of great culture.”
About Pakistan’s hopes for participation in the expo and how did it
view the Chinese market, he said, the government looked China not only
as a great supplier of goods and services to Pakistan but also as a
buyer of our services.
Younus Dagha remarked that as the Chinese economy was growing, and
the purchasing power of the people was increasing, Pakistani products
could find a great market there, adding, “China is a market of one point
five billion people.”
While commenting on the overall status of bilateral trade between
Pakistan and China, he said, “It has been difficult, frankly speaking,
in the past we have had great, huge deficit with China, but as we are
discussing with our Chinese partners, they are ready to give more market
access in concessional tariff regime for Pakistani products and we feel
this trade deficit will gradually come down.”
Source: The Business Standard, India Thursday, 25 October 2018