President of Pakistan Asif Zardari, who is eager to get free access to the United States and European Union markets for commodities of his country Thursday reviewed options with the relevant governments officials.
Federal Minister of Commerce Makhdoom Amin Fahim informed Pakistan’s parliament that Pakistan has lost about $40 billion in war against terrorism as a front line state and Pakistani government is making every effort to acquire free access to United States and European Market to generate revenue by exporting Pakistani products to offset the loss and over turn the national economic crises.
He told the assembly that the process to acquire consent for free access to European Union market is time consuming because each EU state follows its own constitution.
Minister also informed the assembly that presently there is no shortage of sugar in country as 80,000 metric tons of the commodity is available and more sugar is expected to arrive in the market shortly. He said government is strictly following protocols and well defined best practices to float international tenders for importing sugar and to select the firms.
Every commodity is to be laboratory tested before import and on the arrival in the local market, Amin Fahim explained.
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