Naeem Anwar, Chairman of National Tariff Commission (NTC) has announced that NTC is willing to take up traders’ complaints from all sectors for their quick, amicable and win-win resolution. The NTC chairman visited FPCCI head office on Wednesday.
He also expressed his desire to collaborate with FPCCI’s Policy Advisory Board to conduct researches into identifying the issues and their productive resolutions. Naseem Anwar also stressed that the commission will be forthcoming to facilitate FPCCI in their efforts to open-up new avenues, product-lines, markets and regions for the country – aimed at diversifying & expanding its exports.
We encourage FPCCI to come up with recommendations that can help remove barriers to trade through exchange of views & delegations with their counterpart chambers in other countries, he added.While speaking at the occasion, the President FPCCI IrfanIqbal Sheikh explained that NTC can play a catalytic role in the growth of Pakistani trade with emerging markets of Central Asian countries and Africa through formulating their policies in a facilitative, growth-oriented and internationally-aligned manner. Central Asian countries are energy-rich nations; but, limited in their potential for trade due to their landlocked geography.
FPCCI president also maintained that being the apex body over all chambers and associations of Pakistan, FPCCI is uniquely-positioned to aggregate the feedback from all sectors of the economy and liaison with NTC to help them resolve issues & grievances pertaining to tariffs.
