Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry President Irfan Iqbal Sheikh had a teleconference with Advisor to Prime Minister for Commerce, Textile, Industry, Production and Investment Abdul Razak Dawood and shared his plan for exports uplifting.
The PM advisor said that government is committed to cope with the challenges being faced by the country. He said that country’s survival lies. He said, “We have to bring in export culture and export driven growth strategy”.
Abdul Razak Dawood said that responsibility of the government is to correct the things government is rectifying them that went wrong in past. It is government’s responsibility to give businessmen market access. He said that engineering and other sectors are also being focused for exports. He also emphasized to bring in quality culture as it would definitely help in enhancing exports. The adviser said that he is persuading Pakistan’s manufactures to send their products outside the country in quantity terms at the maximum to attain the market share.
LCCI President Irfan Iqbal Sheikh said that special permission should be granted to industries for loading export cargo.
He said that to bring more liquidity in the economy, it is requested that the Refunds of the export oriented industries should be released on immediate basis. He appreciated the recently announced initiatives by the government to enhance the exports growth of Pakistan after the economic slowdown by COVID-19 outbreak.